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New MP3 Portables
An anonymous reader writes "This has been a busy week for the announcement of the latest crop of MP3 portables, probably just the start of many more with the holiday season only a few months away. First Samsung has announced their first jukebox model the Yepp YP-900, a 10GB unit using Toshiba's 1.8-inch drive for storage (same one as in the iPod) and eschewing FireWire (400 mbps) for a USB 2.0 (480 mbps) connection to transfer files. Mambo has also announced a jukebox player called the Digital Media-X PhotoBank Jukebox that is more akin to the Archos Jukebox Multimedia in that it can store and display photo files and possibly video files in the future. The Mambo holds 20GB of memory on a more common 2.5-inch hard drive, making it a heavier unit than the YP-900. Like the Yepp, the Mambo also goes with a USB 2.0 connection, heating up the competition between FireWire in digital music portables. The most interesting feature about the Yepp? It also has a MMC/SD card slot to facilitate trading tunes to and from other digital music players. (Take that SDMI). Finally SonicBlue has started shipping replacements for the Rio 600 and the Nike PSA[play 120 (made by Rio for gym workouts). Both the Rio S30S for the exercise-minded and the Rio S10 come with 64MB of memory and are upgradeable to 192MB through MMC flash cards. The S30S comes with an FM radio, while the base-optioned S10 is claiming 35 hours of running time on a single AA battery. Both players transfer files via USB 1.1's 12mbps port."
Please bear with me on this
Ogg Vorbis is not the greatest thing known to man.. let's face it.. and NO I AM NOT TROLLING...
Linux Zealots LOVE Ogg.. why? Because of the licensing.. not the compression rate..
Ogg's compression rate/size is not even a case for a competition against MP3.. against WMA for that case..
Here's the proof.. and I know i'm going to get modded down, but folks.. MP3 is the mainstream.. your typical Joe Shmoe will have no clue what the hell you're talking about when you say Ogg Vorbis.. for all he/she will think.. it's some foreign film or something..
"The ones who dont do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down" -- Henry Rollins
Listen Carefully: No one but a small group of linux zealots gives a flying fuck about ogg vorbis. MP3 is too widespread and is the defacto standard now. Ogg is just about as popular as VQF in terms of market saturation.
Now if ogg is that important to you then buy something with upgradable firmware just in case.
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