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sony did not take anything away. for europe and north america, by far a smaller market for sony models than japan (which carries still the same silly drm schemes, the silly Sonic Stage and the silly ATRAC) still has all the goodies: recording from line in (very very good recording in fact), line out easily accessible, gapless, pcm compatibility, atrac, lossless etc.
i think the europe and north america markets have been dumbed down so much so that any non-apple machine has to come with rubbish software or hardware and a really low price to boot. sony sees this, cannot compete by releasing their full fledged player with all its features in north america and europe so criples the ones they send over.
that is market, not sony being greedy. who besides headfiers (or even headfiers who complain that ipod is too expensive) would buy a sony 8gb player that costs over 250$? I can see it: sony ripping off the general populace.
it will never happen when this market is flooded with such rubbish companies that proper quality companies cannot bring out proper devices. go to japan if you want the proper audiophile version. people there are used to paying more for quality rather than quantity.
i think the europe and north america markets have been dumbed down so much so that any non-apple machine has to come with rubbish software or hardware and a really low price to boot. sony sees this, cannot compete by releasing their full fledged player with all its features in north america and europe so criples the ones they send over.
that is market, not sony being greedy. who besides headfiers (or even headfiers who complain that ipod is too expensive) would buy a sony 8gb player that costs over 250$? I can see it: sony ripping off the general populace.
it will never happen when this market is flooded with such rubbish companies that proper quality companies cannot bring out proper devices. go to japan if you want the proper audiophile version. people there are used to paying more for quality rather than quantity.