Tom
It's my understanding that there were so many people buying the Muvo players
just for the 4Gb drives that Hitachi got upset. The microcode for the drives
in the current players has been changed to prevent them from being used in
other devices. Maybe this might lead Hitachi to recognize that the price point
they have for the 4Gb retail drives is too high.... but that makes too much
sense from our viewpoint :-)
Mike H.
From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] Re: Any comments on E-1 and microdrives?
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:57:19 -0400
Understood, but the Hitachi 4GB Microdrive I purchase for $200 (and got a
free MP3 player in the process), is AWFULLY handy when shooting raw. 300+
shots on one card.
I know the arguements both ways, but couldn't pass it up.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "W Shumaker" <om4t@xxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 10:12 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Any comments on E-1 and microdrives?
> I've spent 6 years of my career in the disk drive business. Nothing
> beats the ruggedness of solid state memory. The E-1 has a setting
> called anti-shock. I personally do not want to rely on a disk drive,
> but it may be just fine as long as you don't bang the camera around
> when it is writing.
>
> \A/yne
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