Advantages: Very good sound quality, looks great and even has games!
Disadvantages: Ipod and accessories quite pricey, but worth it!

...If you\'re looking for an mp3 player then this is the one to get. Watch vidoes, browse through photos, listen to music and play games! I recently upgraded my 60gb photo ipod to this 80gb video one. The sound quality remains fantastic and the extra 20gb gives me enough space to add some music videos as well as video pod casts such as Ricky Gervais or 8 out of 10 cats to name but a few. As you may have seen, it looks fantastic - it is smart, sexy and very clean looking. With only the 2 circular buttons on the face you can stop, play, skip, fast forward and rewind your tracks. At the top there is also a hold button which allows you to disable all of the buttons so that if you accidentally press one of them, nothing happens. Very handy for jogging, or simply walking down the street. The screen on this model is slightly larger than... Read review

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Advantages: stylish, great features
Disadvantages: poor earphones, shiny silver back

...The iPod Video 80gb is the ultimate in portable mp4 players dominating over 50% of the market. It is suprisingly small and fits into trouser pockets very nicely and is the ultimate cool accessory to have. Also the iPod is good value at £200. This thing is like a small hard drive, 80GB is the amount of storage I have on my laptop. There is so much space on this thing that I doubt you will fill it with your music collection unless you have 20,000 songs. The ability the iPod has to play videos is great as you can download music videos and other videos such as comedy videos and cartoons off of iTunes for free in some cases although the screen isn't the largest and you will not be able to see films that well because the screen is small. Another great feature is the ability to store pictures. On your iPod you can now store your... Read review

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Advantages: Size, Memory Space
Disadvantages: None

...I bought my 80gb Apple Ipod in stylish black, almost 6 months ago. Since then, it's been a great portable music system, maybe even the paradigm of a near perfect MP3 player. The sound quality is near on perfect (depending on your earphones), and i belive it's the best in its kind, as i found the Ipod Nano to have consistant sound problems. The new scroll wheel is extrememly easy to use, directly contrasting to the Creative Zen scroll bar, which becomes increasingly tedious at times. What I like most about this product though, is the fact it hasn't followed the " The Smaller The Better" regime. This allows the 80gb Ipod to sit firmly in your pockets, thus preventing you from mimicking a paranoid schizophreniac, and constantly checking your pockets to see if you've left it on the bus. Overal, the 80gb Ipod is great value for money... Read review

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Advantages: Slim, Great Battery, Good Sound Quality., good build quality.
Disadvantages: Scratches quite easily, new firmware mainly brings cosmetic changes.

.... Despite the seemingly large price tags, the ipod is actually cheaper per gigabyte than the old ipod video. The ipod classic 80gb version costs around £1.90 per gigabyte (gb) of storage, compared to the last years ipod video 80gb version costing around £2.80 per gigabyte (gb). It may not seem much like that, but that's a saving of £70! In Brief: £159 for 80gb, £229 for 160gb ----------Capacity - How Much Can I Put On It---------- To give you an idea of how much you can store, I currently have around 650 albums, and those use a mere 34GB of space. This means of course, that if you are only going to use this ipod for music, you'll be able (depending on quality) to fit in excess of 1000 albums right in your pocket, which is an impressive amount for the price you are paying. Official apple statistics say you'll be able to fit up to 20... Read review

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Advantages: Easy navigation, good clear and large screen, huge capacity, great looking, excellent value for money
Disadvantages: iTunes a little annoying, battery life not too brilliant

...I was hesitant about buying an iPod as my first, an iPod mini a few years ago, broke and never mended itself as soon as I bought it. It was sent back and I've been using other (decent) players since. But iPods are so popular I decided to give them another shot and, truthfully, am very pleased that I did. After using a perfectly good Samsung YP-Z5A 4GB Mp3 player, I was bought the iPod Classic 80GB (in black) for a Christmas present. Firstly, I would order it off the official Apple website - it's exactly the same price (£159.00) from Apple as it is from other stores such as Argos or Currys, and you can get an engravement written on the back of it completely free of charge. Despite saying it could take up to almost 2 weeks to arrive, it came three days later in perfectly good condition. HOWEVER, if you are going to order... Read review

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Advantages: Stores practically unlimited tunes, videos or photos
Disadvantages: Battery will eventually die, Fingerprints on back

...Overview: After having some money to spend from a recent birthday I decided to purchase an iPod, more than that the one that holds the most songs, video and photos than any other. Oh and did I mention the iPod with the biggest price tag? Well you certainly get what you pay for... quality. This is my first review so I apologise upfront for any mistakes, omissions or any incorrectness in small facts I say. Also sorry for using a lot of headings but I hope it makes it easier for yourselves aswell as me to write. :) In the Beginning Purchased on 19th November 2006 for the popular Electronics store Currys. Asking for an 80 GB iPod the man behind the counter asked what colour and I replied with black [you may wish to have white instead]. He then got the box which was really tiny; it was quite shocking that such a small box could... Read review

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Advantages: Incredible memory and looks
Disadvantages: possibly too much memory?

...This is probably my most treasured possession. With the size of the memory, you can store more pictures, music and videos than you could ever possibly need. A pro and a con there... If your not going to fill up 80gb, i wouldn't recommend buying this ipod. At the moment i have nearly 6000 songs, and 9 (approx. 1 hour length) videos stored on my ipod classic, and still have 47.3 GB space free. If you can fill it, it's incredible value for money. If you can't, it seems a little pointless. It's very easy to use, you can make playlists on the go, the games are extraordinarily fun- not something i'd normally think about, but the ipod version of solitaire has kept me amused on many a train journey. The battery life is very good, as long as you don't continuously fiddle. The alarm is good... but has failed to wake me (a deep sleeper) up... Read review

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Advantages: small, neat, video capable, many extensions, games and its light
Disadvantages: scratches easily.

...The apple ipod (30GB-80GB) is a piece of hardware that should be pumping tunes into the ear drums of every person who likes a stylish, easy to use, snazzy and all round brilliant mp3 player. Apple have entered a new cooler feature of being able to download films or movie videos to you ipod so the options are limitless. What Audio formats can the Ipod play It can play MP3, AAC/M4A, Protected AAC, AIFF, WAV and Audible audiobook. if you ask me thats a pretty impressive selection of audio formats. Little Add ons or extensions that can be purchased There is a very big list of extensions you can buy for you Ipod i will only mention a few that i use myself. Isocks- these come in packs of 5 all in different colours. they are used to protect and cover your ipod from scratching or getting wet in your bag or pocket. Ipod Wall... Read review

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Advantages: great quality.
Disadvantages: expensive

...WOW! The 80gb ipod classic is by far the best portable music player i've ever had! not only does it look great, you can store up to about 9000 songs on this beast! despite the fact it looks rather big and hefty, its actually quite light and you tend not to notice it in your pocket untill you dip in to find some loose change. the sound quality on it is amazing. you can get all sorts of equalizers for more bass, more treble, etc... to find the perfect sound for the song you are listening to. the only thing i would say is bad about the ipod classic is the touch pad, sometimes this can get stuck or it wont sense your fingers, so it can get abit annoying trying to scan your whole archive of music when youre struggling to get from the a's to z's! The headphones! if you really want to get the best out of your ipod classic then change... Read review

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Advantages: Big memory, not heavy in weight, long battery life
Disadvantages: None that I can see

...I purchased an Ipod classic and I must say that it is one of the best purchases I have made. It has a massive memory and easy to use with iTunes. Movies, TV programmes, music and photos, everything is on mine and it is so easy to add and take off things you don't require for a while. I have 80GB and I have 600 photos, 520 songs and 60 movies on it and I still have 40GB to go. Absolutely brilliant, my friend has just bought a 160GB and it is so easy to use he doesn't need my instruction to use it for the first time. With a large compacity this is certainly one for all generations and is great if you are travelling because you can take advantage of the long life battery and watch films, tv or listen to music while you travel.... Read review

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