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Just became a proud owner of a sleek, shiny and chic Black IPod Video 80Gb. I already have three other portable media players Black IPod Nano 4GB, Sony Network Walkman 20GB and Creative 1GB MP3 Player.

Step one was to download new ITunes 7.2 software and initialize my IPod. Once that was complete, I moved straight to download some cool Video Podcasts from my fav providers BBC, CNN, Discovery and National Geographic. Currently downloading video podcasts of Panorama-BBC, National Geographic Video Shorts, and CNN-Special Investigations Unit.

Real cool features include sync with my Outlook Contacts+Calendar and Photo Library.

The video playback quality is awesome, and no you don’t get squint eyes watching the video.

Over-all this baby is a Black Beauty!

Will update daily on more features and experiences with this gem. Some quick technical specs:

Size and weight (80GB)

• Height: 4.1 inches
• Width: 2.4 inches
• Depth: 0.55 inch
• Weight: 5.5 ounces

Capacity

• 80GB hard drive
• Holds up to 20,000 songs (80GB) in 128-Kbps AAC format2
• Holds up to 25,000 iPod-viewable photos
• Holds up to 100 hours (80GB) of video4
• Stores data via USB hard drive

Display

• 2.5-inch (diagonal) QVGA transflective, over 65,000-color liquid crystal display with white LED backlight
• 320 by 240 pixel resolution, .156-mm dot pitch
• Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Video

• Video formats supported: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per sec., Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48 kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 768 Kbps, 320 by 240 pixels, 30 frames per sec., Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48 kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per sec., Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48 kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats