[austonia]

http://www.mp3players.co.uk/site/uk/ihp.html


they beat us to it

 

[ProFingerSk8er]

nice...the review's long....which is a good thing..

buy before i go through the whole thing...according to audiocubes's spec...the hp100 dosent seems to support .WAV
can anyone answer that?

EDIT: nevermind...it does support WAV

 

[purk]

This is one heck of a stlylish player. I'm hoping that once it arrives in the U.S., the price will be around 375 dollars.

Purk

 

[williamgoody]

With a line out to boot. Good Good stuff.

 

[Whitebread]

Yeah but lets hope the line out is a true line out and not like the one that is on my IMP-400.

 

[williamgoody]

Audiocubes has it for sale.

http://www.audiocubes.com/product_in...roducts_id=482

 

[asdfeproiu9]

but, using wav, the battery life is lower, and it'll probaby drastically compromise the shell life of your hd player (they are designed first and foremost for mp3 anyway).

thats why md is still the best. heh.

that optical out is very enticing though, isnt it?

 

[the_Omniscient]

Quote:

Originally posted by williamgoody Audiocubes has it for sale. http://www.audiocubes.com/product_in...roducts_id=482

So does Amazon Germany: Amazon Germany

and behold... 359 Euro... that's around $399! Now that's more like it already. I dunno whether this is a typing error, coz basic retail price in Europe was set at 499 Euro... like... that's... 30% off or something.

 

[Peteyest]

This could be it! A sign! iRiver might have made the correct decision at $400, because that's a good value for the features, but not a steal.

Please tell me it's true!

 

[Peteyest]

By the way, where's this "long" review or is it just that on that page?

 

[Peteyest]

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/k.asp?ck...n=info&p=36233

Then again, these prices in the U.K. can be a bad sign. Haha.

 

[Rumz]

I understand that the iHP-100 is firmware upgradable-- does this include the possibility of support for other codecs or is codec support so specific that it wouldn't be doable? I'm currently playing with AAC to see how it sounds, hence my question.

 

[Whitebread]

I do believe that support for another codec could be added. But is a company gonna go through all that trouble to add another codec to their player? It would take massive consumer support and preassure for them to do it. And most people aren't intrested in the loss-less formats we want in portable players.

 

[Rumz]

Well the main thing is that iPod supports AAC so it's possible that adding support for AAC would simply help them compete with apple's product... maybe they'll do it but just not as quickly as I'd like

 

[andrzejpw]

I think I'll still be getting an ipod. I guess I just prefer the simplistic looks of it