[vorbis] HipZip support?

willz at btinternet.com willz at btinternet.com
Mon Jan 28 05:03:44 PST 2002



>  >   I know that hipzip/Dadio support was planned - does anyone have any
>  >   idea what the status of this is due to iomega's discontinuing of the
>  >   Hipzip product line?
> 
> Wow... I was looking to buying one, but had bad experiences with everything 
> marked Iomega in the past, and didn't want to depend on a nonstandard 
> storage format (the 40 MB cartridges).
> 
> I guess this news puts the last nail in the coffin of such an idea.
> 
> The need for a portable Vorbis player remains strong, anyway. Preferably one 
> with a 20 GB hard disk inside. ;^)
> 

Perhaps you should write to Apple and ask them to implement OGG onto their new iPod. That would possibly be a way of making the Vorbis format "mass market" so to speak. And the iPod is pretty decent anyway...

Check it out at

http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html

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