Movie Soundtracks

I was delighted to discover that my 8820 now allows me to listen to my audio files via a bluetooth headset — a remarkable improvement in sound quality over the internal speaker or the earphone which were all that were available in my older 8800. I can even stop and start songs, control volume, and skip or repeat tracks Terrific!
By contrast, the 8820 does not seem to offer the same sound quality or flexibility when listening to movie soundtracks; at least, none that I’m aware of.
Ideally, I’d like to be able to use my bluetooth headset directly when I’m watching movies on the 8820, in the same way that I do with my music. If that remains impossible, I’d be interested in some kind of adaptor which would allow me to plug in a standard stereo mini-plug in order to communicate with the headset via bluetooth, or at least to attach a wired headset.
Any suggestions? Thanks!

Dear Dave
Thanks for this very helpful information. I had originally intended to convert MOV to AVI files so I could edit videos on some third party software (which came with my computer), but I won't bother with this now - will just keep it in the same format and do all the editing on Quick Time Pro.
I am having some trouble upgrading to Quick Time Pro. When I click the Upgrade button, it takes me to the Apple US Store and I add to my shopping cart. Then I run into problems because my current Apple identity defaults to the United States as my country of residence (I live in Australia). I've tried to change the profile without success (the problem is that it will not recognise my area code) and assume that I will also need my (Australia) billing address as verification for the credit card. Perhaps I would do better to redo the profile at the end of the transaction process, if necessary creating a new profile?
With regards
MB

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• Of course the thing people seem to be afraid of the most: The battery-draining issue. Yeah, it happens. BUT! It happens only very very rarely and you can notice it when it happens, since the hard drive of your iPod is still spinning when you turn it off and you can just hear that. If the hard drive is spinning over 2-3 seconds after you turned off the ipod, just turn it on, wait a second, turn it off. the hard drive should most likely stop to spin and your battery will not drain. I'm pretty sure this also will be fixed soon.
• The thing I, personally, am most concerned about: Bad sound quality. Well, it's not really a BAD sound quality. But it's not as good as one would expect from a $250 product I think. With the right equalizer settings it gets a lot better, but still ... . There are rumors it's hardware-related, which would really suck because it can't be fixed then. I have to say the sound quality is good, it's very harmonic but it lacks deepth if you ask me. Since sound quality seems to be very important to you, that's probably the thing you should have an eye on. There are some threads in this forum about it, there even is a really nice "study" on the classics sound compared to the iPod video. You maybe want to check this out. But in the end I have to say: It's a good sound quality, but it may not be enough for someone with $100 earphones. Best thing would be to go to an apple store and test-listen to a classic to find out.
• The back (which is very nice actually) gets scratched very easily, and so does the screen (I was told). So you really need to buy a protection case. On apples website it costs $40 (or $100 if you prefer the italian leather thingy ;-)), but you can get a good one for $25 if you look around a little (the 5G cases work for the classic either)
• No custom EQ. I really hope it will be added in the future. But there are a lot of presets which should satisfy most people. Still, custom EQ should be standard for such a high-class product in my opinion.
• You are forced to use iTunes. Maybe that's a downside for you, maybe it isn't
That's all I can think of right now. Hope it helps. And sorry if the english may not be that good, I'm actually from germany
hope you find the right thing to do. I, personally, would wait until FW 1.0.3 is released and see what it does.
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