Apple offers iPod volume limits

It's a mandatory imposed volume limit, at least we have a choice!

Now maybe all the retarded professors will shut about about people going deaf.

Now that class action law suit may have merit. By doing this, Apple seems to be trying to quietly address the very issue brought up in the suit. If they did this before the legal action, the suit would have been too late; now, it gives them the ammunition.

As for the imposed volume limits, if I remember well, it was France, not UK, that did that.

"Now maybe all the retarded professors will shut about about people going deaf."

If only that were the case. I'm sure they'll complain that Apple has set the maximum possible volume still too high, and that people still don't turn it down. They *want* something to complain about, and they'll find it one way or another.

now I can't accidently turn the volume up too loud (and prevent my brothers from doing it to me on purpose).

Stop complaining about scientists, it is a real problem and a really legitimate issue (as opposed to this ludicrous lawsuit).

I wish the volume limit was imposed right there in the hardware. Apparently it it impossible to educate people those days so might as well act as if they were poor lemmings and impose the volume control on them ...

I wish Apple would rename their updates. If you use the software update feature and your iPod is over a year old then nearly every iPod update you download will be of little use and is both a waste of bandwidth and hard drive space.

The prof still has a case, maybe even a better one, because 4 generations of iPods do not get this update.....or any update actually.

...the whole reason the volume level "issue" seems bogus to me is that when the headphone jack is used as a line-out to supply an external device (such as an FM transmitter), the high end of the volume level settings are often necessary to get decent sound.

People know loud sounds damage their hearing, and if they don't then shame on their parents. Are we going to start suing lawn mower manufacturers, power tool manufacturers,etc., ...not to mention every musical artist and/or their conference sponsor?!

Imposing a limit on the volume or placing a "Warning, some PhD has determined that loud noises are bad for you." label on MP3 players seems ludicrous. We know that driving an automobile at high rates of speed on public roadways is unsafe, yet we do not place governors on commerical autos to cut them off at a reasonable speed [65mph, right? :) ], nor are there stickers plastered on or about our cars letting us know that some other PhD has decided that speeds over 65mph may be hazardous to our health (though I must admit seeing a sticker in a Vista Cruiser once that said you should be sure to close the windows at speeds above 100mph - ?!).

Stupid, stupid people...

Has anyone tested this to see if the video issues with the 60gb video have been addressed?

What video issue? I have a 60 GB video and the only video issue is that is SHOWS my video's.