Apple is a very successful company when it comes to providing consumers electronics and gadgets. Most of their products are quite reliable in the sense that they last for a very long time.

Take for example, Mac computers by Apple. Viruses created by hackers cannot run on a Mac personal computer. They also see to it that their products are improved and developed more than ever. They have generated a lot of sales and is praised for the quality of their products.

Also, Apple does not focus on only one sector. They create many products and almost all of them are very popular due to the fact that Apple sees to it that people won't have a hard time trying to learn how to navigate their gadgets. Apple's iPod video is an example of the huge success Apple experienced.

What led to the popularity of Apple's iPod Video was the fact that it has a huge storage capacity. This makes people able to store huge amounts of multimedia to their mp3 player so they can enjoy both music and videos. The external look of the iPod video is attractive. It is very slim and sleek and this is what makes people like it.

Furthermore, the iPod Video has a lot of remarkable features. You can easily organize the music menu and you can even rate the music that is stored inside it. This gives people more time for listening to music rather than arranging everything in order. Another good thing about this mp3 player that if used for playing music, it can last for 20 hours before it needs to be recharged. It has a big screen that can be used for viewing photos and watching videos.

The sound quality of songs played by the iPod video is actually great. This helps people who like music so much appreciate their music.

Although the release of the iPod Video was widely celebrated throughout the world, one can't deny the disadvantages that come with buying it.

The screen of the iPod video is wide enough for one person when watching a particular video but when more than one person is watching something, it can be quite uncomfortable for both of them.

It is not intended for sharing multimedia with two people. It is a very personal gadget. Moreover, the screen is not scratch-proof and it would take minimal effort to be able to scratch it given the chance. This means that you would have to be really careful when using it if you are the type of person who does not like getting his or her gadgets damaged.

Also, though the quality of multimedia being played is great, videos tend to freeze while they are playing in the iPod Video. This may cause annoyance by people who do not like things to happen like that. The iPod Video can be unresponsive at times and this is one great disadvantage for it.

It is true that the iPod Video has a long battery life but that applies only when playing music. What if the person using it likes to play videos more than music? Fact is, when you play too much video on your iPod Video, chances are the battery life is easily depleted. That is one bad thing that is associated with buying this mp3 player.

Apple's iPod Video does not come with an FM option a built in speaker and a voice recorder. People who like listening to the radio aside from their music collection might find themselves disappointed by this fact. Indeed, you can't have everything. Perhaps the fact that the iPod Video's main feature of being able to play videos at a resolution of 320x240 is what makes it special.

The iPod Video is also costly. Its initial price of $499 would lead people to think twice before buying it. If the person is kind of tight on budget then he or she might not even consider buying it. Aside from its pricey cost, it also has other competitors that sell products similar to the iPod Video but at a lower cost. It may not be really practical to buy.

Though the mp3 player, iPod Video, is meant to be used to play videos, is not very ideal for doing so since it depletes most of its battery life when playing videos. And since when iPods' batteries are exhausted so much, it is tantamount to throwing it since the batteries that come with these gadgets cannot be replaced.

MPEG-4 is the only format that is being supported by iPod Video so if you want to store other videos that don't have this format to your iPod Video, you might be a little frustrated. You would have to convert files that are not in the MPEG-4 format and this may cost you too much time. So if you have so many videos that are not in the MPEG-4 format, then the iPod Video is probably not the gadget for you. Surely, you don't want to spend more time converting videos to the supported format than spend this time to listening or watching multimedia.

The iPod Video can also be slow if you've stored so much multimedia in it. If you have so much stored in it, it may scroll really slowly and lock up.

Perhaps, the one really good thing about the iPod Video that stands out is that it plays music in great quality but then again, they shouldn't have named it iPod Video. The video aspect of it just doesn't seem to work and might fool people in to buying it thinking it really is for videos when it's actually the otherwise.