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Rio Carbon MP3 Has A 5G CF To Be Cannibalized

Posted by timothy on from the one-way-to-price-shop dept.

GlucoPilot writes "This guy bought a Rio Carbon Mp3 player because he figured he could rip the 5GB CF Card out of it. He did, and put it in his prosumer 6MP digital camera. Now he can take 1,500 six-megapixel pics in one sitting. Oy." The card is apparently a 5GB Microdrive, note, not 5GB of Flash memory.

2 of 256 comments (clear)

  1. Be nice to Rio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They've always been nice to us, supporting open standards like Ogg Vorbis and FLAC.

  2. How is this not nice? by k98sven · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ok.. maybe I'm missing something here.. Are these things sold with a mandatory music-download-service subscription or something like that, in order to subsidize the price of the hardware? Or what?

    Because if they make their money off selling the things.. that doesn't make sense. Why should they care what you do with their product once they've sold it? This could leads to them selling more units.

    (Besides which.. The idea of being 'nice' to a business is just ridiculous. It's a friggin' business venture, not a person! They're in it to make money. If they act 'nice' it's because they believe it's a good strategy to make money. I completely fail to see how that should inspire any loyalties from me.)