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Iriver 20GB MP3 Player With Tuner And Direct Recording (40 GB available)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000UJFU6/?tag=myrev09-21

Features

Plays over 600 hours of digital music

Up to 16 hours of battery life

Supports MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV and OGG music files

Ultra-fast USB 2.0 transfers (up to 40 times faster than USB 1.0)

Integrated FM tuner

Backlit remote control with 4-line display

Built-in voice recorder

Intuitive music navigation

Real-time MP3 encoding (no PC required)

20GB of internal storage

Store or transfer files of any type

Extra-large, 8-line, backlit LCD

Rechargeable Lithium Polymer battery

Optical input and output

Upgradeable to future formats and features

Looks better, battery lasts longer, plays more formats, records direct from hi-fi, cheaper, USB2 - no extra adapter needed!

Need I say more!

This item was edited on Friday, 27th August 2004, 00:22

I bought one of these for my daughter`s birthday and can only agree with Micoman.

It`s superb machine and comes highly recommended.

:D

Doesn`t look better, looks boring....and it ain`t Apple....

Doesn`t look better, looks boring....and it ain`t Apple....

sheep follow the fashion ;)


BAAAAAAA

This item was edited on Thursday, 26th August 2004, 22:55

Exactly, it is not an Apple so will is reliable and not a rip-off.

As for looks, at least it does not look like something designed by NASA.

The Iriver is better value and thats a fact.

In MHO it`s not a "fact" but your opinion.

With any technology product, just have to wait a while, and something bigger, better and cheaper comes along - value increases with time.

Hence the Apple is earlier in the market, and this product a later entrant - but there will be better and cheaper ones along in a while........ :D

.....or try one of these
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-NPOD

I do have to say that the iRiver is superb - and this is from someone who had a 40gb iPod and regretted buying it after I had spent some time with the 40gb iRiver.

The software (both PC/Mac & the actual internal iRiver software) is not only more user-friendly, it is more flexible and reliable.

The iRiver has a better signal:noise ratio - thus better quality sound.

iRiver records. Also you can get an optical input for it, so if you record with a decent mic you get stunning recordings.

The iRiver isn`t made out of the awful plastic that scratches irrepairably like the iPod, and doesn`t have a metal back like the iPod (which seems to attract grease from anything it goes near). The iPod to me looks and feels horrible... at least when it`s not on TV or in photographs.

I really can`t recommend the iRiver any more - it`s in a league above the iPod in my opinion.

This item was edited on Friday, 27th August 2004, 09:58

Hmmm, yes Spen I`ve been pondering the Novatech Npod for a while. Anyone here got one and if so what do you think of it?

The customer reviews on the Novatech site say it`s great even though it keeps locking up all the time :/ Because of that I`d kinda written it off in favour of the iRiver iHP.

dd

This item was edited on Friday, 27th August 2004, 09:56

My son has one of these and thinks it is brilliant !
www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=1458620559&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=58749
or the 40 Gig unit is £190

This item was edited on Friday, 27th August 2004, 10:01