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To: JJB who wrote (5522)	4/21/1999 11:20:00 AM
From: David L. Hachey	Respond to of 60323

Hey gang; It sounds like a RIO problem to me. What about the other MP3 players? I sure wouldn't buy a RIO knowing this problem exists.

To: JJB who wrote (5522)	4/21/1999 11:53:00 AM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

JJB, I can hear this discussion: son: (hiding Rio! player behind his back and out of sight): No, Dad. Gee, I have no idea what happened to all your SmartMedia cards. Maybe your Olympus camera is on the fritz??? dad: (steam coming out of his ears, red in face about to go on Caribbean cruise): What in tarnation!!! I am taking these cards back to BestBuy to get a refund. Yet another snafu with DumbMedia. I suggest you e-mail the link to the customer service people at Diamond. People buying the Rio! should know about this before coughing up the cash to get the device. Creative and Diamond have sunken their own ship. They had a choice to use CF or even MMC and they blew it. I wonder if the Nomad device has the same problem. "Rio! The mp3 player that eats SmartMedia cards." They deserve whatever they get. The retailers are not going to be happy about this when the cards and players get returned in numbers. Ausdauer

To: JJB who wrote (5522)	4/21/1999 8:41:00 PM
From: Ausdauer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Thread, from the CMPnet article posted earlier... "One reason for the rush to SanDisk's multimedia card is that it promises to reduce the price of MP3 players compared with players that use existing flash products. Another plus is flexibility: The SanDisk card can be used in other products, like digital cameras. Sources said Samsung's failure to include forward and backward compatibility to digital cameras hurt its standing in the domestic flash market." From this month's PC Magazine... "One significant difference between the CoolPix 950 and the MX-2700 is the choice of memory cards. The Fujifilm unit uses SmartMedia cards, of which the highest density is 32 MB. The Nikon camera uses CompactFlash cards, which go up to 96 MB and will shortly be available in 160 MB." This along with the www.digitalkamera.de post from this morning is mounting evidence of SNDK's superiority. "The Rio PMP300 has a built-in 32 MBytes Flash-Memory, which with its high compression of MP3 format, is able to store up to about 60 minutes of music. If that is not sufficient for the users, they can resort to SmartMedia cards, which Rio has a slot for. However, those people who want to use their SmartMedia cards alternately in their digital cameras and in their Rios are in for an unpleasant surprise: memory cards that have been used at least once in a Rio are rejected by the digital camera as being defective. Re-formatting is not possible, not even in an external card reading device, PC-card adapter or floppy adapter. All these devices indicate "Card Error". On the other hand, use in the Rio MP3-Player is still possible." Ausdauer