Two Questions

Because ipod fooled you and me and others with their new ipod video that was rused into production . Apple wanted to be first without even realizing that the video would suck down the battery. 14 hours is a joke .

I have the itrip for the new one and i would say its better than the reviews. Its clear , has a strong signal and can over ride stations . i get 4 hours with the itrip in aswell..


As for somthing else ? you might look for other Fm transmitters (belkin) but other than that, would be a wire ipod to speakers with a headphons jack that you buy from radio shack or rig up somthing that is attached all the time to your speakers and the ipod is detachable >>

Ramazotti, is this what you have?

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wo/5.RSLID?mco=B70DA127&nplm=TG191LL%2FA

If your car has a tape player, you can get use that. all it does is plug into the audio port on your ipod, and just put the tape into the tape player, and play it that way. or a FM tuner will work.

as for the battery, the harddrive uses up a lot of power. if your constatly changing songs, and making the harddrive spin up, it uses a lot of power to spin the disk, and read the data. if you just listen to songs in order, it will let hte ipod "see" ahead, and copy the next songs into memory, and let the harddrive spin down.

LCD's dont use that much power, but they still consume power.