This BS device is touting "Audiophile Quality". Lemme explain:
High quality/hi-def audio is not *only* determined by its sampling/bit rate, rather by the quality of the input signal so that the DAC can have something to work with
A tiny device such as this has tiny built-in condenser microphones that are over-compressed and sound like crap because of no headroom and self-noise.
In order to obtain a high-quality "audiophile" sound, you need large-diaghram condensor mics with phantom power. That requires a properly equipped mixer or powered mic preamp.
A crappy signal recorded at 24-bit/96 KHz resolution sounds just as bad as a crappy signal recorded in 12-bit/32 KHz resolution
A *true* audiophile device would not use unbalanced 1/8" stereo miniplugs
True audiophiles would laugh at this device. High resolution != audiophile quality!!!!
Would someone please tell me how commenting on a user *experience* with a product mods it down as 'troll'? So in/. you can't say ANYTHING negative without being modded down to Hades?
I am web applications developer and just for the heck of it I tried our app on the Beta 1.5 release just last week...and it kept crashing, over and over and over. I cleared the cache, ended the process tree, restarted, all to no avail. I think the internal memory structures are somehow getting corrupted. We use lots of JavaScript and images, so there is alot in the client-side memory. When I switched back to the stable version, it stopped crashing.
Does anyone remember how in the old Netscape 6/7, you could tweak the memory and the disk cache? That's something I've missed since Firefox has been out. I think that would've helped in debugging the crashes.
Just my opinion:
Portable video devices are annoying. Trying to watch video on a small, low-res screen hurts my eyes and is just not worth the expense, trouble, or time. I have a Palm device with a pretty decently sized screen, on which I've loaded MPG videos (from a 1-gig SD card). It's just not fun quinting at a screen that small to try and enjoy a movie or other clip. Perhaps kids think PSP videos are cool, but I'm not sure how "grown ups" will take to it, and iPod video is just a direct competition to PSP.
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Would someone please tell me how commenting on a user *experience* with a product mods it down as 'troll'? So in /. you can't say ANYTHING negative without being modded down to Hades?
I am web applications developer and just for the heck of it I tried our app on the Beta 1.5 release just last week...and it kept crashing, over and over and over. I cleared the cache, ended the process tree, restarted, all to no avail. I think the internal memory structures are somehow getting corrupted. We use lots of JavaScript and images, so there is alot in the client-side memory. When I switched back to the stable version, it stopped crashing.
Does anyone remember how in the old Netscape 6/7, you could tweak the memory and the disk cache? That's something I've missed since Firefox has been out. I think that would've helped in debugging the crashes.
Just my opinion: Portable video devices are annoying. Trying to watch video on a small, low-res screen hurts my eyes and is just not worth the expense, trouble, or time. I have a Palm device with a pretty decently sized screen, on which I've loaded MPG videos (from a 1-gig SD card). It's just not fun quinting at a screen that small to try and enjoy a movie or other clip. Perhaps kids think PSP videos are cool, but I'm not sure how "grown ups" will take to it, and iPod video is just a direct competition to PSP.