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New Philips eXpanium Will Use 3" CDs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the finally- dept.

SpunOne writes: "Phillips is gearing up to release their new eXpanium mp3 player. Unlike most players in the past that use proprietary storage technology, Phillips is turning to the use of those cute little 3 inch CDs that have been around forever, but never really used for much. Apparently most existing CD burners can already write to them, and the rest can do so with an adapter. Phillips even has a beta test available if you're interested in giving it a try." If you should get into the beta group (50 people), why not write up a report for us on this little device? If it only played .ogg files, I would try to pre-order from somewhere.

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  1. Re:Why? by Viking+Coder · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm pretty sure he meant, "a MiniDisc and completely ignore the compression artifacts."

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  2. irony? by bokmann · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great! SO now I can rip all my CDs and burn them to... smaller cds... seems kinda underwhelming.

  3. Bad Math by jawad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Being Slashdot, I'm quite disappointed that no one saw the obvious mathematical glitch in this statement. A 3" CD should be quite a bit more than 185MB, because a 5" CD is 650MB. 3" being 60% of 5", no less than 390MB should be expected. But the pigs creating this "media" have diliberately hampered the storage capacity of this media.

    Why?

    Obviously, it's because this media is going to be deluged with copyright efforts that make the uncrackable SDMI codec seem to be the equivalent of the 31337 "Rot-13" encryption.

    We should be wary of this media, for any media that requires over 200MB of encryption shall be dangerous to our liberty!

  4. Rip It! by Quazion · · Score: 2, Funny

    Quote from Philips Site:

    Play your current CD collection through the PC's CD-writer using simple software to compress the music into MP3 data format and place it on your hard drive ready for compiling. (You can also download legal MP3 music files from the Internet to your hard drive).

    Trust me i can also download Illegal songs to my hard drive....

  5. Re:A great reason to Beta Test by Jenova_Six · · Score: 2, Funny
    Great.

    Now the beta test will be /.'ed.

    There go my chances of getting a free eXpanium...

    Jenova_Six

  6. Make your own... by the_mind_ · · Score: 2, Funny

    Buy a 50-pack of regular CD's without the casings. Put the stack in a lathe. remove a few inches...

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  7. idiot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    that's not a pokemon