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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!