or, with that money, just invest in more 8GB cf cards.
with 8GB cards less than $100 each (here's one for $56: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208340), it really should be feasible to get enough cards to cover an entire festival. at 24/48, each card is 8 hours of recording time. get yourself a 3 or 4 cards and you're probably good to go
screw 8GB cards. with those 16GB A-Data cards at barely over 100/shipped, those are def the wy to go. (2) 16GB cards will yield 32 hrs at 24/48........
methinks the P2 has problems with the 16gb cards??? I haven't been keeping up...
Terry
yes, currently the HD-P2 has issues with 16 GB cards. you
can use a 16 GB card, but the HD-P2 will
not record more than 8 GB to a single card. the unit just completely freezes up. For many months, Tascam was basically telling us that the issue was hardware based and could not be fixed by firmware. More recent news indicates that they're working on a firmware fix for this, but nothing has been promised. So, at this point, I'm not selling my 16 GB card in hopes that the HD-P2 will be able to record to all of it, but I wouldn't suggest buying a 16 GB card (unless you can find a killer deal) until a firmware update is available to fix the issue.