White Letterbox Bars, Cover Flow Scrambled

Hi,
Just got a new 8GB iPod Nano (video). It's fantastic, but I noticed a couple of bugs:
When playing video in widescreen, the widescreen bars are white, not black
When playing video fullscreen, there's a 1-2 pixel white vertical line on the right edge of the screen
Cover Flow seems a bit buggy. I've had all my Album Artwork show up as scrambled pink noise, which disappeared after a Center+Menu reset.
Anyone else noticed these bugs?
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lilfurbal wrote:
This is my first experience with Apple and this is the first time I have ever given them my money, and it was not a good experience. I think they forgot the Alpha and Beta testing of this ipod, they just built it and shipped it immediately.
That's unfortunate because typically Apple products are very reliable. But it seems this year (2007) especially, they've been rushing out unfinished products with a lot of bugs in them. The new iPod Nano is surely, at the moment, the most buggy iPod ever. As I've said in another post, it prevents my PC from booting into Windows! Hopefully they'll fix these problems soon.

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