Is the classic worth it?

Right now, I have a 16GB ipod touch.
I'm giving it to my brother, and getting a 160GB ipod classic, cause it has wayyy more space, for a lot less money. Is the classic worth it though?
Is the movie quality good & everything? Ahh please give me the benefits of getting a classic.

I love my new Classic 80GB.
However, it is not without its deficiencies (though I've suffered no "bugs" yet).
What I love:
It holds a helluva lot of music, it holds cover art and it sounds dang good. What more do you want? It seems to be built sturdy and you can get varioius cases to carry it in and protect it. You can dock it to a docking station and charge it without having to hook it to a usb at your computer AND have it play from the dock through your stereo system (though the dock's remote does not have the menu that your Ipod has, you can just pause, play, skip and ff...
What I think needs improvement:
- I'd love it if I could delete tracks or albums right from the IPod.
- I'd love it if it would play album after album instead of stopping after one album
(These 2 things are my biggest complaints.)
Some other suggestions:
- I'd prefer it to be a heavy duty rubbery-plastic so it would be lighter and yet still durable. Less heavy would mean if it drops the force of the drop would be less jarring to the drive.
- If they insist on making it out of metal I wish they'd change the shiny chromme to a brushed silver that doesn't show fingerprints so much.
- I wish they'd improve ITunes. I don't use "sync" because my music collection is too large to devote a folder just to syncing my music. So I wish ITunes would allow me to drag, say 10 folders at a time into the ITunes /IPod instead of having to do one folder at a time! This is just plain DUMB to only be able to drag one folder at a time onto the IPod icon for loading!
- And most importantly, as far as ITunes, I wish the ability to get track info, track names and cover art would work for more than just music bought AT the ITunes store. Eff the Itunes store! I have other software, like my cd label maker, that connects to CDDB or whatever it is and provides me with the names and tracks of cd's. ITunes COULD easily do this, they are just being stingy and greedy.
So as you see, I have some issues with IPod and ITunes, but they do not stop it from being a great little player. And for the price ($238 for the 80gig), you can't beat it.
Some day I hope they resolve some of the above problems and put out a 500gigger. When and if they do, I'll buy one of those. Meanwhile, I don't know about the 160 gigger but the 80 gigger is great.

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