Check out this new item from DMC:
http://www.digmind.com/store/index_500.html
I think most iPod users wouldn’t trade in for one of these, but it does offer an impressive set of features, including massive storage, analog AND optical line-in, and an FM tuner. Also much respek to them for listing RMS output.
Due to its massive storage and analog/optical line-in features, this could be a nice solution for some production situations. For radio ENG it could be a minidisc killer. Too bad it can’t capture to high bitrate mpeg-4, or loss-less ogg, or uncompressed audio, otherwise it could be a lifesaver for low budget film and live music recording.
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