Belkin Media Reader for iPod with Dock Connector

This is not compatible with new generations iPODs! - Although I have bought this product to store pictures the unit is not compatible with Generation 5 iPODs. In fact it is only compatible with Gen 3 iPOD (that can not view images)! No where in the Amazon sales literature or infact that of Belkin this fact has been mentioned. Besides when Belkin representatives where confronted with this the impolite answer was: We can t help if you have bought the wrong product!! I will not buy from Belkin again.

does not work with iPod video - As others have found to their cost this item does not work with the latest iPods. For some reason this vital info has been left off the info provided about the product on this site, which is really the fault of Belkin. I have however used this with a friend s older iPod and it worked pretty well and if bought cheap is a good solution for freeing up memory cards when travelling etc

Beware Belkin Media Reader is not compatible with iPod Video - I bought this to transfer photos from CF cards for my camera to my iPod video. From the product information here on Amazon, on the Belkin site and on teh Apple site I was not given the impression that the media reader is incompatible with the the iPod video. But when I connect the two I get a message on the iPod indicating that the media card reader is not supported by this iPod. No help so far from Belkin or Apple, neither seem to acknowledge that they are not providing good clear information on what constitutes iPod with dock connector.I can only give this 1 star because I can t use it and the review won t allow zero.

Excellent - I bought this item recently using Amazon, and was very impressed. Basically the iPod photo card reader means that you can take your digital camera (and iPod) away on holiday and have unlimited room for all your pictures! Whenever I used to take my digital camera away, I would end up at the local internet cafe, uploading my pictures every few days - as my memory card is only 128MB. With this item it s like having a 20GB/40GB memory card!Whilst it is true that it does go slowly, this will only be a problem for people taking hundreds/thousands of photos a day. For your average tourist/traveller, it is ideal. It takes roughly 5-6 minutes per 128mb (which is roughly 50 5-megapixel images or 170 2-megapixel images which is good enough quality for photo-sized prints) which you can leave transferring whilst you do something else. If you need to e-mail your photos or just view them on a computer, you can plug your ipod into any USB plug on any computer, and it will show up as a new removable drive. Open up the DCIM folder and there all your photos are, in separate folders for each time you use the media reader.The media reader also had no problems transferring video files (or any other file you put into the DCIM folder on your memory card) so you can just wipe the card once it s finished and reuse it again -- which is ideal if you need to use the card continually (if you have 2 memory cards you can use 1 whilst the other is transferring, then swap them around for unlimited photo shooting!)All in all this is a great gadget, and a must have for any ipod/camera user on the road or out and about.

Extremely Slow and eats batteries - You really need to read the product description carefully before you buy this product. I acquired a Minolta Dimage A2 8MP camera with a 1G compact flash card and wanted to use the iPod to store a holiday s worth of shots to take back to my Mac. I like to shoot full res TIFF, which gives about 24Meg per shot. The Belkin product is unfortunately totally unsuited for this kind of work. It is abominably slow at transferring files from the card, and eats both the iPod battery and its own batteries in the process. It only makes sense if you are happy with a once a day transfer to an iPod, and remember to recharge the iPod every time and change the media reader batteries every other time!!If you use smaller files and lower capacity cards you might be very happy with it, but I am just waiting for someone else to release a half-decent product that will do a quick card to iPod transfer in the middle of a big shoot. To be fair, the poor performance of this product is balanced by the convenience of dumping maybe 20G of photos to the Mac, with iPod auto-mounting to the desktop and launching iPhoto.

• boxed - fast delivery (depending on postal strikes) - cheapest anywhere