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This might be off-topic, but does anyone remember the name of that MP3/etc player that is shaped like a cassette and plays inside a cassette tape player?

This one?

All it really validates is that most consumers are fools and will fall for any hype the Apple marketing department throws at them. If people were intelligent enough to do a little research, they could find that buying a full-blown iPod for only 50 dollars more would be a much wiser decision, space wise, or another portable mp3 player entirely, rather than shelling out an insane amount of money for an Apple iPod that is shiny, pretty, and has "cool" commercials...


Right... because looking just a little to the right on apple.com to see the bigger iPod for $50 bucks more is beyond most "foolish" consumers... I think someone else's post hit the nail on the head here perfectly: That to us geeks "oh! you get more space for only 50 bucks!" it makes sense, but to the consumer, they see they can put like 2 solid days of music on it, and its smaller, and comes in colors! My father owns one (bought a mini the first day it came out), and he understands the concept of a gigabyte, and he also understood the concept of "50 dollars cheaper, and still holds more music than he needs it to, and is incredibly small" And the best part? It Syncs with iTunes, so songs purchased off of their go straight to the iPod, instead of having to burn to CD then re-ripping (As I have to do, I have one of these, its great for my car, but it doesn't hold as much)

That's what I like about the Digisette MP3 Player I have - it just pops in my car's old-fashioned cassette deck. There's a bit of hiss during playback, just like a real tape, but tolerable.

http://www.digisette.com/en/products/DUOseries.asp

I think Digisette is/will be offering these.

here, I was intrigued enough to look it up.

digisette

• Texas Instruments Digital Signal Processor (DSP) with upgradeable firmware supports new audio codecs and digital rights management

Here is the product's actual website.

Someone has done that.

I've never used it or heard it, just saw it at sharper image once. Seems to be an interesting idea, only I don't have any cassette tape players anymore.