MuVo's and the 4G drive

"John DeGroof" wrote in message
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 05:41:10 GMT, Bob Brogan wrote:

Do those still work, that is taking the drive out? I heard Creative labs
sabotaged the drives....

NO - they no longer work.


Good thing I got my two early

Tom

"John DeGroof" wrote in message
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 05:41:10 GMT, Bob Brogan wrote:

Do those still work, that is taking the drive out? I heard Creative labs
sabotaged the drives....

NO - they no longer work. There's a warning on the box to that effect
now as well. The microdrive connector (or any CF connector for that
matter) has both CF and IDE bus'. The player uses the IDE bus, so
since the CF is unneeded for the player, it's now disabled. I'm not
sure if it was Creative or Hitachi making the call, but I'd suspect
the latter. Creative was selling players and getting publicity out of
the shortate - why would they care what they're being used for?
Hitachi OTOH was losing potential sales.

I think you nailed it on the head when you said Hitachi was losing POTENTIAL
(in their own mind) sales. I'll bet the number of $500 MD sales is
unchanged
and the only difference is that Hitachi is now selling fewer MDs period.

--
John DeGroof, Compressionist
DVD, DAD, DVD Audio, MPEG, AC3, DTS, PCM, DSD, MLP

"John DeGroof" wrote in message
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 05:41:10 GMT, Bob Brogan wrote:

Do those still work, that is taking the drive out? I heard Creative labs
sabotaged the drives....

NO - they no longer work. There's a warning on the box to that effect
now as well. The microdrive connector (or any CF connector for that
matter) has both CF and IDE bus'. The player uses the IDE bus, so
since the CF is unneeded for the player, it's now disabled. I'm not
sure if it was Creative or Hitachi making the call, but I'd suspect
the latter. Creative was selling players and getting publicity out of
the shortate - why would they care what they're being used for?
Hitachi OTOH was losing potential sales.

I think it's interesting that Hitachi found it to their liking to sell them
cheap to Creative, but then balked when they were needing to sell TONS of
them to Creative due to people's extraction fo the drive.

While I'm sure their profit margin was far greater selling them as
stand-alone microdrives, I would wager big $$ that they will prifit LESS
now.

I, for one, was not about to purchase a 4GB drive...but would have--if I
could purchase the Muvo2. Oh well...They'll get NOTHING from me now.
It's an interesting strategy move. I'd be curious to know their related
income comparison in a year's time.