Does anybody else think that we should separate pcdps from MP3 Players into 2 forums?

[aaroncort]

I'm finding it difficult to find info on PCDPs among the all of the mp3 player threads. Will anybody else suport this request? Thanks for your time, Aaron.

 

[raisin]

Unfortunately, time marches on, and I think that trend will only accelerate in the future. A new forum category would only wither and die.

 

[pank2002]

No, I don't think so. Where would you place a PDCP that supports mp3 or ogg or even asf?

 

[Oddball]

I like it the way it is. Otherwise, people might start sticking mp3 players in the computer as a source forum and it would get really confusing. It's a little sad for us PCDP people, but we just have to deal with it.

 

[neueziel]

No because they both are portables.

 

[Kirosia]

No, then we'd have to separate everything. Mds, pcdps, flash, HD, micro-drive, tape, etc.

 

[Stephonovich]

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Originally Posted by Kirosia No, then we'd have to separate everything. Mds, pcdps, flash, HD, micro-drive, tape, etc.

Exactly. There's enough forums as there is... goes off to count... 19 main forums, 2 sub-forums, and 6 closed sub-forums (the featured reviews). So that's 27 forums total, 21 of which are postable. I visit probably two or three of those on a regular basis.

 

[elrod-tom]

I'm thinking that this probably won't happen. It's portable audio, whether CD's or MP3 players. Then again, what to do with combo players (like my iRiver 400, for example)? I don't see it at this point.

 

[Mr Do]

It's fine the way it is. Maybe a portable video section would make sense but I'm not sure if that is headfi or not.

 

[nismo96]

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Originally Posted by neueziel No because they both are portables.

^^What he said.

 

[D555]

PCDP's are going to make a comeback then what would happen to those ignored MP3 / HD threads?

Paul

 

[widds2v]

PCDPs will never make a comeback Too many disadvantages as time goes on. Hard drives get smaller in physical size, larger in storage capacity, and cheaper in price. Carry around a player the size of a gumstick with 300GB of storage, or still lug around a CD player and all your CDs? Ya~ Maybe for an extreme small % that prefer the "superior sound" of PCDPs will they remain, but the vast majority of the public, and probably most people here will continue with, or move over to, smaller portable MP3 players.

Just imagine in 10 years.... Apple iPod 25th generation, 33 terabytes of storage, could put everything in lossless on it!

 

[nismo96]

PCDPs will be around until long after the last CD is sold in stores.

 

[Kirosia]

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Originally Posted by widds2v PCDPs will never make a comeback Too many disadvantages as time goes on. Hard drives get smaller in physical size, larger in storage capacity, and cheaper in price. Carry around a player the size of a gumstick with 300GB of storage, or still lug around a CD player and all your CDs? Ya~ Maybe for an extreme small % that prefer the "superior sound" of PCDPs will they remain, but the vast majority of the public, and probably most people here will continue with, or move over to, smaller portable MP3 players. Just imagine in 10 years.... Apple iPod 25th generation, 33 terabytes of storage, could put everything in lossless on it!

Relax man. You love your mp3 player, fine, just don't be so adamant about it. Seriously.

Also, when I had my d25/d211, my IHP was left to gain dust. It may just be me, I like having the actual CD itself playing, good sq or not. Consider it a somewhat sentimental placebo.

 

[Stephonovich]

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Originally Posted by widds2v Just imagine in 10 years.... Apple iPod 25th generation, 33 terabytes of storage, could put everything in lossless on it!

Not so. By then surely a new technology will have surpassed CDs as a preferred audio delivery method. And SACD/DVD-A, while we're at it. Perhaps Blu-Ray. A single-layer Blu-Ray can hold 27GB. If we assume they'll keep the current 80 minutes of audio, that works out to a little over 5.5MBps by my math, which very well could be wrong. I think it's fairly accurate, though. A CD is around 172KBps, for reference. You could have a sampling rate reaching into the millions, with that type of bandwidth.