msnbc.msn.com — NEW YORK - SanDisk Corp. on Monday introduced a new digital music player that stores twice as many songs as the popular iPod Nano for nearly the same price and cut the cost of existing models ahead of the holiday shopping season.
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tdskateAug 22, 2006
Hah, SanDisk aint even got s**t on a shuffle ipod !
Closed AccountAug 22, 2006
hi you guys i just got the 6gig for 287.00 and all i can say is i love it and i do a podcast calld PODFUN you can get it at www.sogreg.com and i just record did 1 of my podcast on it SHOW 46 you got to go download it and you can hear how good it sonds i love it f**k f**k f**k IPOD IPOD'S ARE s**t f**k APPLE YOU HEAR ME f**k APPLE thar so f**king gay but i love itunes thare cool but f**k apple
Closed AccountAug 23, 2006
-"This one also plays video (Nano doesnt)"My nano plays videoIpod linux ftw
icercAug 23, 2006
I have a nano and love the thinness but other than that I don't like anything else.I think this player has a good advantage with battery life alone...20hr battery8GB memFM radioMicrosd slotReplaceable batteryAnalog controlNO drmPortable storageLarge screenVideo supportlow price(8gbflash)Oh and the individualistic properties ipod kills.
benschAug 23, 2006
Um, jbelkin, what exactly is the difference between WMA plays4sure and WMA Zune?
icebugAug 23, 2006
this is flash and the nomad isntduh
asfanizAug 23, 2006
agreed with you,for me 1gb already enough,<a class="user" href="http://hair-loss-hair.blogspot.com">http://hair-loss-hair.blogspot.com</a>
himselfAug 23, 2006
^Ogg Vorbis is not a codec, its a container like aviFLAC is fidelity.. mp3 is rape
gnomonAug 23, 2006
@HimselfWhile I don't claim to notice much difference with FLAC except with the lows and highs (I also don't claim this applies to everyone), most people don't hook studio monitors up to their portable mp3 player--if you're using 15 dollar headphones, FLAC won't make a huge difference. That being said, I'd fully support a portable device that supported many codecs and file formats (Wavpack, Ape, FLAC, etc.)
wizpig64Aug 24, 2006
... its a great investment.(firefox crashed! yay!)
neilt6Aug 29, 2006
Posted by "theblackgecko" :"Actually, it's a matter of preferences. The flash-based players are great for jogging, biking, and people who like to update music constantly. Plus, the small size is generally easier to transport. Hard drive players are great for people who plan on keeping a decent amount of music on the player, or else want to dabble in watching video."----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hmm...... an interesting post. However there is some question as to how much music you consider do be a "decent amount". Considering that the Sansa e260 is advertising 1000 song capacity lets do a little math here... Lets take that 1000 songs and divide that by 4GB.... Ok that leaves us with about 250 songs per gigabyte at advertised capacity. Now lets take that 250 songs and multiply them by 30GB and see what we get... Oh my goodness! That gives us a startling 7500 songs at advertised capacity! But just for the heck of it lets also multiply 250 songs by 60GB... WOW!!! Now we get 15000 songs at advertised capacity!! Divided by 15 that gives us about 1000 average Cd's worth of storage! Now! Armed with this knowledge lets see if we can find anyone who actually has this many songs that they want to have with them... Anyone...? Nobody needs to have 1000 Cd's in their pocket at all times?!? How could this be! If iPods can store that much certainly someone needs that amount of storage!! Face it dude, goofy professor personality aside, nobody actually needs to have 1000 Cd's of music at their side at all times. In fact if someone actually even owned that many songs and listened to them all regularly I'd be surprised. 4GB will get you roughly 66 average Cd's of advertised storage. I doubt if I personally would ever own that many Cd's at one time. Not to mention that songs get old, and when they do they can easily be moved off the player and kept on an SD card or the users computer for later use. As for video storage you are forgetting that the Sansa and iPod video have very small displays, and very limited audio output. The quality of a DVD can be easily reduced and High Definition audio tracks removed with no loss of visual quality. And with the use of the Theora video codec, file size can be considerably reduced as well. In fact those audio figures are most likely referring to inferior MP3 files. If the Vorbis codec were used, sound quality could easily be increased at a decrease in file size. I am anxious to see support for the Ogg container format and Vorbis, FLAC, Theora, and Speex codecs for the streams contained there in. I use Ogg containers, containing the above encoded streams all the time on my computer for my media. Including support for them in the Sansa e260 would make file conversions unnecessary.