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  • Reply 61 of 65
    airslufairsluf Posts: 1,861member
    Kickaha and Amorph couldn't moderate themselves out of a paper bag. Abdicate responsibility and succumb to idiocy. Two years of letting a member make personal attacks against others, then stepping aside when someone won't put up with it. Not only that but go ahead and shut down my posting priviledges but not the one making the attacks. Not even the common decency to abide by their warning (afer three days of absorbing personal attacks with no mods in sight), just shut my posting down and then say it might happen later if a certian line is crossed. Bullshit flag is flying, I won't abide by lying and coddling of liars who go off-site, create accounts differing in a single letter from my handle with the express purpose to decieve and then claim here that I did it. Everyone be warned, kim kap sol is a lying, deceitful poster.



    Now I guess they should have banned me rather than just shut off posting priviledges, because kickaha and Amorph definitely aren't going to like being called to task when they thought they had it all ignored *cough* *cough* I mean under control. Just a couple o' tools.



    Don't worry, as soon as my work resetting my posts is done I'll disappear forever.
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  • Reply 62 of 65
    matsumatsu Posts: 6,558member
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  • Reply 63 of 65
    I find it funny reading magazines such as Maxim which this month states they recommend the RIO mp3 player as the small, ultralight, portable MP3 player of choice. 512mb for only $299. And the other competing makers such as RCA, Sony, etc., all have products under 1gb for almost $200.



    The only real competitor to the iPod is Archos, but their's is too butt ugly to compete. But price and size it does compete well.



    I think the truly ultralight mp3 players will be ones that use either a CF card (which they now make versions holding 2GB!), SD or Memory Stick. Make a small enough interface for these cards, and you're set. If only someone would make one small enough, slick enough and cheap enough, then you'll have a serious competitor. Until then, Apple will continue to improve.
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  • Reply 64 of 65
    bjerbjer Posts: 67member
    The only real competitor to the iPod is Archos, but their's is too butt ugly to compete. But price and size it does compete well.



    Unfortunately on the gigabyte scene the competitors is not just ugly Archos. The new Phillips 20 G and the new iRiver 20G are both in the same form factor as the iPod. Both need a little catching up to the super slick looks of the iPod but both have recording line in, FM and 16 hour play time and both are priced significantly cheaper than the iPod.



    If Apple can use the Toshiba hard drive, so can others.



    I love my 15 GB iPod, play it all day, but would love it more if it had recording line in, FM and 16 hours playing time- and if it were a hundred bucks cheaper!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • Reply 65 of 65
    sammi josammi jo Posts: 4,634member
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    Originally posted by iPeon

    I have read your post in detail. I still believe you have either listened to crappie encoded MP3's and made your decision based on those or... to be honest and upfront, there's some deeper "anti-something" you aren't disclosing. No insult intended.



    There's nothing deep or sinister abnout my post! It's just that compressed audio doesn't work for me...its as simple as that! I'm always on the edge of my seat listening for artifacts in the sound that shouldnt be there....rather than absorbing the music! As I said in my original post, compressed audio was developed to make music delivery practical on the internet. When high bandwidth internet and monstrous size hard drives become ubiquitous and ultra cheap...then we can go back to listening to muisc that sounds more like the artist and producer intended...rather than music with electronic artifacts added, courtesy of some extra decoding hardware that adds unwanted, occasionally nasty and unmusical characteristics!
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