Cool, iPod nano

[Geebs]

Hmm, a loft full of LPs is "unlimited storage". Not very portable though

[Dave]

It's also, according to sony, 8.99 for a 5 pack of MD discs

[o'dium]

Is it made from the same scratch absorbing material as the PSP screen? Shich seems to scratch even if its left in thin air and not touched?

[brisk]

60 hours of the same 90 minutes over and over....

Open player/replace disc/press play

So in reality, 60 hours playback AND unlimited storage! How the hell did this format fail??!

- There's that little issue of transcoding to ATRAC3.
- Many people don't want to drag discs around with them.
- Compared to the nano, it's a brick (4.1 oz sans-battery) with an ugly dot-matrix display.
- It has moving parts

Because i'm feeling pedantic:

MP3 players need to be in MP3 format too. Assuming you're not an internet thief, you'll still need to rip and encode your cd's whether you use MP3 or ATRAC3.

But these are "mini-discs". Small and perfectly portable.

My mini-disc player/recorder is tiny. Only slightly larger than the actual media itself. And it comes in silver. Silver man.

The other ipods have moving parts too. Mine never skips so it doesn't really affect me either way.

But yes despite all this, i'd like an MP3 player. Just not the ipod nano.