Sharing my experience and opinion -
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I was impressed with the Sandisk/Sansa e280 features. Purchased it at Costco at an unbelieveable price (better then anything found on the Internet considering no tax or shipping from the net stores.
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Audio quality is awsome - only tried it with my exceptional Sony jogging headphones.
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The bad news: Spent many hours trying to convert various WMV’s and MPG’s created by Roxio/Sonic 7.5 that otherwise play flawlessly and can be read and manipulated by all sorts of media converter apps only to experience it to HANG at 93% for many video files, not complete for some JPG images.
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I read all the comments at this board and realized, sandisk does not care or decided to use us as their test and debug team.
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Sandisk must have experienced these problems or they release s/w after succeeding on one pc with one file.
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Whatever I purchase must work 100% or it goes back. Great price notwithstanding, I am not paid to be Sandisk’s Beta tester. The Media Converter was released 11/15/07. They had enough to read at this forum to solve the problem … if they cared? BTW: I also tried the ARCSOFT media converter. NG.
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Hint to others - before you try new s/w, always back up your PC so you can restore the PC to EXACTLY the way it was before you started. Foo! 86 MB media Converter - that was nonsense. And you are better off restoring your system from like a Ghost image then to rely on the uninstall that comes with s/w that leaves stuff on your system.
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I’ll check back periodically. When the Media Converter has been updated a few times, I MIGHT repurchase the e280 or whatever is next.
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Finally, as for other Sandisk products, I love the Cruser Titanium Flashdrives. I would not own anything else.
