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Topic: surprised there are so few CF-based players (Read 1729 times) previous topic - next topic
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surprised there are so few CF-based players

I'm surprised there are so few CF-based players on the market. I wonder why.

CF is the least expensive solid state memory format. The prices are fairly reasonable. You can get 1GB card for $150. Probably in a year or so you'll be able to get 2GB card for about $300.

There are several advantage of CF-based players vs both with built-in flash memory and hard-drive based:

You can have multiple cards.
The power consumption is low, standard AAA or AA batteries work fine
You *still* have the flexibility to use Microdrive format, if you wish to.
Very small and 100% shock-proof.

Of course, one may say: but I want to keep ALL my soundtracks handy. Well, it depends. If you have over a 1000 CDs (and still growing), it becomes a challenge to keep all of them on a single device, especially if you want the quality compression (at least MP3 with the average 200Kbps). In this case, it would be probably cost effective to get a large 3'5" format hard drive (say 250GB), keep all your collection there (certainly, there is a room for growth), and copy to the CF-based player whatever you fill like. With USB2.0 the copying process should be fairly fast.

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surprised there are so few CF-based players

Reply #1 –
I agree porky, CF is a very flexible medium.
Compact flash based players do exist:
Frontierlabs NexIA and Nex IIe
Daisy multimedia Diva