First of all, thanks for the original poster for the heads up. Truly appreciated. It's not your fault that iRiver engineers don't get it
Good point wanderman.
I could argue about the resolution of normal quality vhs tapes (250+ lines) and the amount of work one has to do in order to transfer files to a format that is displayable by H3x0 (without losing a lot of space for unneccessary data it can't display), but I digress...
I guess it boils down to what I think is important.
I think there is a significantly bigger market for lossless audio formats on a player that is sold/advertised/bought mainly as an audio player and which has capabilities designed for it.
Now, of course, I could also look movies in ASCII on a Fossil watch, but to me that is more of a sign of masochism than actual attempt to enjoy/respect the movies in question.
Hence my stance.
But I do of course understand that if one already has an iRiver H3x0 series and one happens to have lots of old 15fps animation in proper format for 160x120 viewing, then perhaps this is a blessing.
But comparing this to amount of people using FLAC alone (not to mention all other lossless audio formats) on their computers / DAP, I think you understand why I feel it's a novelty
Had this been a message about Toshiba Gigabeat with it's lustrous QVGA screen I would perhaps been of slightly different opinion, but even then I would have preferred FLAC support
friendly regards,
Halcyon
PS Yes, I have iRive H340 myself. And no, I'm not even going to try the video playback, as I know what it is like (been to digital video since '90 so have seen & done a lot of 160x120/10fps video in my life