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To: Rocky Reid who wrote (10235)	4/9/2000 4:33:00 AM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

While DataPlay may have a long list of negatives, you shouldn't write it off entirely. In its 500MB read-only configuration at <1$ a disk, you could: 1) Buy one disk containing the latest Stephen King novel and have every other novel in his collection ready for the unlocking with just a phone call. 2) Tuck 100 albums worth of MP3s into your shirt pocket for the price of just one average-sized CF card. In its write-once configuration, you could: 1) Store 15 hours of dictation for your secretary. 2) Use a single stamp to mail hundreds of photos to grandma that might take days to download using a dial-up connection. 3) Enjoy the Pamela Anderson/Tommy Lee video on your PDA. IMHO, one of the many optical storage players will eventually hit paydirt. Craig

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (10235)	4/10/2000 11:28:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

The Casio QV-3000 Above all I want to be certain my posts here are accurate. I don't mind being opinionated, unreasonable, arcane, disjointed, obtuse, insensitive to East Coast geography, long-winded, inconsequential, trivial, insensitive to used Winnebago owners, picayune or even boring (did I leave anything out?) I do, however, want to be accurate. The Casio QV 3000 does ship for $799.99 with a 16 MB CompactFlash card, so consumers are not roped into buying a microdrive after all. I apologize for the inaccuracy in my prior post. The QV-3000EX proves that Casio is not just satisfied to be a minor player in the digital camera business. Their QV-2000UX was the first digicam to be bundled with an IBM Microdrive and now they've done it again with the new QV-3000EX Plus. The real news is the price -- $999 for the camera AND the 340MB Microdrive or $799 for the camera and a 16MB CF card. steves-digicams.com Now would someone please explain why Casio continues to christen their digital cameras with long, encrypted, convoluted names, but are content to give simple names like "E-100" to their palmtop PC's??? I mean "QV-3000EX plus" sounds like the name of Chevy Chase's fully-automated station wagon in the original National Lampoon Vacation. This is marketing guys...not Scrabble! (QV-3000EX plus x triple word score = nobody cares) Ausdauer