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Sony to Release Digital Walkman

Posted by Hemos on from the joining-the-fray dept.

ari{Dal} writes "Sony has revealed plans for a new digital walkman for the Japanese market. " Not quite a Rio or Nomad, it will take Sony's Memory Flash Stiks, like the Vaio and Aibo. It can play the Sony proprietary musical format, as well as encrypt and play MP3s or Wavs.

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  1. Price Tag by Hacksworth · · Score: 3

    It debuts at a retail price of $430, with flash cards ranging from $60-100? Not to mention that it is a Sony product (not known for the greatest quality) and it is using the lastest unknown and unsupported proprietary compression format. How many of these from how many different companies do we need? I suppose if the lawyers recognize them as a good thing, they might forget that mp3 is still free and available to everyone, which is better for us.
    Anyway, I'm still waiting for pine to hurry up and release their mp3/cd player (if it's not vaporware). 650MB of storage; I've yet to see anything else come close.

  2. Too-bad by Lumpy · · Score: 4

    It looks like sony is looking for a product to use their memory sticks cince noone else will use them. I'm waiting for a mp3 player that uses a pcmcia slot so I can slap my Clik drive in there (Ok a CF slot will work, as they have an adaptor for that now.)

    What would be great is a device that will record in stereo mp3... that way I can compress all meeting thoughts into nice snippets that I can play on the computer.

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