Topic: Potential future JB3 competition...

[Nick in Edinboro]

Currently only offered in japan and only support for MP3, WMA, and ASF's.  With firmware upgrades however it could change.

It does have Optical inputs *and* outputs, is about the size of an iPod.

http://www.theregister.com/content/54/31943.html
http://www.iriverjapan.com/product.php?product=iHP-100

[1st set only]

I see WAV on that page...

[Styx Cover Band]

Looks pretty crazy, it even has a built in mic.

[Nick in Edinboro]

Shipping in america now.. all sorts of stats available here:
http://www.iriveramerica.com/products/iHP-100.asp

[EkoostikMace]

Shipping in america now.. all sorts of stats available here:
http://www.iriveramerica.com/products/iHP-100.asp

But the important stats (to us??) seem to be missing. It says realtime encoding but no mention of realtime WAV or any other specifics on the optical in options. I hope it doesn't force MP3 on incoming digi.

Oh wait... I see a manual. Time to read. Film at 11.

-Kevin

[Nick in Edinboro]

LOL.. nice picture thing Ekoostik

Wonder if it resamples that optical in for the optical out... Like I said, I know nothing.. just saw it and thought it was interesting

[EkoostikMace]

Okay.... from the manual (http://www.iriveramerica.com/download/iHP_100_EngUSA_030709aF.pdf) I see that you can choose what format to record to. They seem to refer to MP3 and WAV.

File length limits are very happily included:

Recording is automatically stopped if:
- The iHP-100's memory is full.
- when the recorded MP3 file size is over 195MB
- when the recorded WAV file size is over 795MB
- The recorded time is longer than 5 hours.
- The battery is low.

795 Megabytes.... that's about 90 minutes isn't it? I guess it depends on the bitrate.  Can anyone with some knowledge in this arena help out? It looks promising....

[Kindguy]

795 Megabytes.... that's about 90 minutes isn't it? I guess it depends on the bitrate.  Can anyone with some knowledge in this arena help out? It looks promising....

I'd be willing to guinea pig this unit if I thought it would support more than 90 min of wave recording.

Tech geeks what do you think? 795 MB seems small.

If it didn't work out the wife could use it while jogging.

[Nick in Edinboro]

Especially for something with a 10 gig HD.. wonder why they'd "cap it" like that..  Looking at it's power requirements, and provided it's not as finniky as the JB3, is external power easy?  I have no idea.. just a curiosity considering it has one 1800mah battery.

[InfiniteOhms]

ya ..  795 mb is not enough for most shows .. WTF? i can see the jb3's shutoff at 3 hrs (wav) and 10 hrs (mp3). I beleave it is not possible to make a wav more then 3:30 ... but other then that whats stoping it?

[Nick in Edinboro]

One potentially nice thing about this recorder is that it appears to use either NTFS or FAT because you can plug it in and utilize windows explorer to surf the drive, add files, etc..

JB3 you can't and I find their proprietary software to be "buggy" at BEST..

[EkoostikMace]

On the 795 limit one good sign is that the unit is firmware updatable. Even the JB3's had a whacky 15 minute cutoff originally.

[EkoostikMace]

I'd be willing to guinea pig this unit if I thought it would support more than 90 min of wave recording.

Tech geeks what do you think? 795 MB seems small.

If it didn't work out the wife could use it while jogging.

If I had the extra cash I'd guinea pig it myself but it's not an option. So I nominate you.

That limit should in theory be changed by firmware later since there's no valid reason I can think of for why it's doing that.

Hopefully we'll start to see a usergroup pop up somewhere and some useful feedback can start between tapers and their support department.

[DaryanLenz]

I think that if the jb3 ever wrote 24 bit firmware, who would even look at this unit...not me!

daryan

[Nick in Edinboro]

I think that if the jb3 ever wrote 24 bit firmware, who would even look at this unit...not me!

What?