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iRiver H320 (Almost) Hits The Market
skyshock21 writes "iRiver appears to now be taking pre-orders for their H320 hard drive MP3 player. This is the one with the color screen that was featured on Slashdot a while back. Although it doesn't support .flac files like the Rio Karma, it does support .ogg, in addition to the usual file formats (mp3, .wmv, .asf, .wav) and sports a nifty color screen. There is also a review posted on CNET."
Seems to be a major oversight and a major reason why I wont buy one.
I'm a bit confused by this. 2 weeks ago I went to my local branch of Richer Sounds and was offered one of these when I asked for an iHP140. The showed me it, I prodded it a bit. So, does this 'taking advance orders' thing apply only to the US release?
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Can you radio experts help me out on this one? Why do mp3 players never have an AM tuner? Always FM only, but most talk radio comes in AM, it seems only natural that they would include this. What's the holdup.
...but no support for video?
What a waste. If i wanted to look at my digital pictures on a tiny display, i'd look at them on the camera that took them.
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Price starts at 330.00 for the 20 gig player. Not bad, considering this is not just an mp3 player, but a multimedia player.
16 hours of battery life, but really Im thinking that running the screen at all times would drop that to at least 10 or even 8 hours if your lucky.
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Whatever happened to that lawsuit against hard drive manufacturers. It seems to me there was a group suing Maxtor, Samsung, etc. over this issue. Selling a "120GB" drive and it only having about 110GB of usable space. I did some googling but couldn't find anything.
When radio first became popular, I believe all stations were AM. When FM technology gained ground and passed AM, the AM market began to decrease. Currently talk radio is the primary reason for using AM, but since a lot of programs are available on AM and FM stations (often the AM will have an FM counterpart) there is a relatively small demand for AM these days. Adding parts/manufacturing expense - thus increasing the cost of the final product - to support AM is seen as a losing proposition (low to negative ROI for the PHBs in the audience).
I like AM. The signals propagate much further than FM, and late at night one can pull in AM stations from hundreds of miles away. However (for me) this is an amusing sidebar: the [lack of] support for AM wouldn't be a dealbreaker in the MP3 player purchase decisionmaking process.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
When are these portable players/recorders going to include a decent (high-quality) microphone input. I mean, as opposed to offering some cheap 'voice-recorder' option. It would be really nice if I could record concerts, and the like, with near-original sound-quality. Until now, this seems only possible with a Sony MiniDisc.
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
Cowon has updated the firmware for their iAUDIO M3 player, and it now includes FLAC support, next to MP3 and Ogg Vorbis.
Er, I ordered one of these yesterday (the site I ordered off didn't have the H340 40Gb version, which is lucky from my credit card's point of view).
There was no mention of it being a preorder - they had 10 in stock, and it's now in packaging and waiting to be shipped to me.
So, how is it that they are only taking preorders on something that I have already purchased?
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Oh, unless of course you're using it with a PC.
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
If it had a color screen, you might be able to look at those pics, which you can't currently do.
Come to think of it, any other player that does support that? I don't need a fancy color screen, just the storage capability.
No, I will not be doing business with iRiver anymore.
But...But...But they support OGG! How can any company that supports OGG be poorly run? Could it be that maybe supporting free file formats instead of file formats licensing fees is a way of cutting corners? Could it be that companies that cut corners in some areas MIGHT cut them in others?
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You know it supports MP3 (and I think WAV) as well, right? What format do you consider to be missing?
Surely it's the players that don't support free formats that are cutting corners!
How would that be any worse than playing a wav file?
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Or equivalent? http://rockbox.haxx.se/
If not, I'll pass. If open-source firmware isn't available for it, I'll buy another model that does...