No one is really buying these slotRadio cards. And why would anyone in their right mind pay $40, $30 or even $20 for 1,000 low-quality MP3 songs curated by Billboard magazine execs, in a player that doesn’t even have a back button?
The fastest growing physical media format for music is vinyl. And this is not the crappy, mass-market vinyl that our parents bought, but high-quality audiophile vinyl.
The only problem is that you can’t take your turntable to the gym. And while these high quality vinyls sound pretty good on the Sansa Fuze w/Rockbox when they’re ripped to 24-bit,
the 8GB internal memory will only hold a handful of albums, and even with a 16 gb card, will only play a few hours or HD-music.
So Sandisk should kill slotRadio and instead upgrade their Fuze to an ‘HD’ model that will have the following:
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Ability to play 24-bit/96 KHZ Flac natively
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64 GB internal memory
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Handle the new 64 GB cards.
While the audiophile market is somewhat limited, they are passionate about their music and will purchase lots of cards so they can take their vinyl collections on the go.
Think about the 70’s and 80’s and all of the Maxell/TDK tapes that were sold.
And while the Cloud is here to stay, it will be a while before the bandwidth can stream HD-quality music.
Message Edited by databass on 06-18-2010 07:51 PM
