Slashdot Mirror
New Generation of MP3 Players, New Features
i4u writes "We got our hands on new Flash MP3 Players from two Korean Manufactures. Both players feature audio functions not seen in MP3 Player before, like SRS, WOW and TruBass. The Muzio JM-200 uses a two color OLED display. The Eratech EMP-100 is betting on small size with measurements of only 30x75x16mm." The larger (and stranger looking) JM-200 also lists ogg playback as a feature.
Your iPod may cost the same, but you should really be paying for each and every one of the mp3s you put onto it that's encoded above 56kbps, assuming the mp3s are legal in the first place. It's not up to the player to charge you, it's really up to the encoder, so yes there is a 'license fee free' version out there that supports only vorbis, because the fee doesn't go to the people releasing the versions. By the way, when did the iPod start supporting vorbis AT ALL, much less exclusively?
I'm always right and I can prove it, because to the best of my knowledge, I've never been wrong.
Oh you're just pissed that Haliburton wasn't awarded the sole-source contract for these things.
Of course if they had been, the portable MP3 players would be 12"x12"x6", weigh 56 pounds, have a capacity of 20Mb, and GW would've started a war with Japan to make sure there wasn't any (un)fair competition.