04-24-2004, 11:50 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Digital Jukeboxes � 1000 Song is Ideal?
The BBC is carrying a story about consumer preferences for digital media players. "The perfect size for a portable music player is one that can hold 1,000 songs, a study suggests. A survey carried out by Jupiter Research has found that almost all the consumers questioned were storing no more than 1,000 songs on their home PC. Jupiter said digital music players with capacities of 5,000 songs will provide too much space for most people."
Too much space???? :duh: Pardon? Is there such a thing? 1000 songs equates to around 4Gb. The same size in fact as the new generation of Microdrives and Compact Flash cards. Funny that. :wink:
Large enough for you?
"Consumers were also wary of gadgets that gave them too much storage space, such as those made by Creative, Archos and Dell. But the report said that almost half of those thinking about buying a portable player, 45%, would like one that could play video. The report speculated that this could lead a push to players with bigger hard drives on board. Other features that matter to consumers are rechargeable batteries (55%), small size (52%) and the ability to connect it up to a PC (49%). Few of those questioned had a preference for the format of the music being stored."
There they go again � too much space! I own 30Gb of music (in MP3 format ripped at 192kbs). How am I meant to fit that on one of these' perfectly' sized players? However give me a 4Gb Microdrive for my Pocket PC, or better yet, a Pocket PC with a built in hard drive, and I'll reconsider. All my media needs in one device? Ta very much. :mrgreen: How about you guys? What size is 'ideal' for you and in what circumstances?
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