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Title: Official Fostex FR2 link
Post by: plucks on January 04, 2004, 04:45:58 PM

SSIA
Here is the link to the Fostex FR2:
http://www.fostex.com/index.php?file=products/dat_dvd/fr2

Tentative release is first quarter of 2004 as well.

Phil

Title: Re:Official Fostex FR2 link
Post by: DaryanLenz on January 04, 2004, 05:03:10 PM

SRP????  How much do those bigg ass flash cards run anyway?

D

Title: Re:Official Fostex FR2 link
Post by: Swampy on January 04, 2004, 05:03:43 PM

24/192  :o

any work on the price???

Title: Re:Official Fostex FR2 link
Post by: Sean Gallemore on January 04, 2004, 06:40:47 PM

on the spec sheet it says "digital input/output (except for 176.4/192kHz."

does this mean you can on get higher than 96kHz. with the internal a/d?

24/96 recording on a 5GB card will get you almost 2.5 hours

Title: Re:Official Fostex FR2 link
Post by: Lee on January 04, 2004, 07:10:46 PM

MSRP: $1499

+ 5GB PCMCIA Type II Hard Drive: $250 (I'm sure there are better deals out there)

= That shit ain't gonna be cheap!  And 1st quarter 2004?  I remember a certain HD recorder that was projected to be availible first quarter 2003...

Title: Re:Official Fostex FR2 link
Post by: MattD on January 04, 2004, 07:30:34 PM

Quote

MSRP: $1499

Funny that a DA-P1 still lists for more.

Title: Re:Official Fostex FR2 link
Post by: Lee on January 04, 2004, 07:31:58 PM

difference being with the P1 a tape is only what, 2 bucks and change?

with this, a "tape" is two hundred bucks and change...

Title: Re:Official Fostex FR2 link
Post by: scb on January 04, 2004, 07:33:58 PM

but a "tape" here used over and over again...

Title: Re:Official Fostex FR2 link
Post by: MattD on January 04, 2004, 07:34:34 PM

Over the lifetime of the P1, you'd probably use that much DAT tape easily. I hope people aren't planning to archive CF cards! So figure a one-time charge of $200+  for media, then recurring costs for DVD blanks.

Title: Re:Official Fostex FR2 link
Post by: twatts (pants are so over-rated...) on January 06, 2004, 09:04:53 AM

Reading the info, saw it takes 2 AA NiMH for 2 hours recording to flash cards...  I certainly hope this is EXTRA power to an internal battery!?!  I'd hate to have to buy external batteries to run thing thing at festies and such...  Or even long bar shows!

Maybe I just didn't see the internal battery stuff...  Anybody know better than me???

T

Title: Re:Official Fostex FR2 link
Post by: BobW on January 06, 2004, 09:52:52 AM

toshiba makes an MP-3 player that includes a 5GB pcmcia harddrive that I scored for $170.
My nephew has a 512 flash memory card-in-a-pcmcia-sleeve
MP3 player and I got a 5GB tosh harddrive, cheap-ish.
Right now the drive is in a PDA running the PDAudio card and Live!2496.
I'm thinking about the FR-2 or a SD722, if they ever release 'em.