[tlug] Re: "Long Live Portable OGG-Players"

["Lyle H Saxon" <llletters@example.com>]

On 4/26/07, Lyle H Saxon <llletters@example.com> wrote:
> iPod's are taking over to the point of exclusion of everything else!
> Shudder-shudder-shudder!  About a year ago, when I went to Yodobashi
> Camera in Shinjuku to buy a sound file player that would play OGG
> files, there was a pretty even mix of things from different companies,
> but when I went back to the same store last week, I was unpleasantly
> surprised to see something like 95% of the display space taken up with
> those bloody iPods.

I went back to Yodobashi Camera in Shinjuku (Nishi-Guchi side) and had
a more careful look at the the MP3 players on display.  It seems I
overstated the state of the world's being overrun with iPods a bit.
There were examples from several different manufacturers, but not many
I would like to buy.  I like the Creative ones, except they only play
MP3's (and that horrible brand-W format), and there are the Cowon
(iAudio) ones that play OGG and FLAC files.  I picked up one of the
iAudio ones - hopefully it won't stop working properly after a couple
of months like the last two I bought....

Lyle