Olympus unveils VJ-10 clock radio, touts 37GB hard drive

Although the recording industry is making quite the stink around here about satellite radio receivers with internal storage, that's not stopping Olympus from kicking out a svelte clock radio with gobs of room for backing live broadcasts up. Granted, the VJ-10 only tunes into AM / FM transmissions, but the whopping 37GB internal HDD gives users the ability to store between 1,250 and 2,500 hours of footage based on quality into WAV files. Moreover, the USB 2.0 connector allows users to access the drive from any PC if you're looking to consolidate your radio and external storage, and the SRS WOW XT stereo speakers should provide decent office enjoyment as well. As expected, users can queue up recordings based on time, and thanks to the large integrated LCD screen, all the information you need will be front and center. Currently, the VJ-10 is slated to land in Japan on March 16th for the ever elusive "open price," but it looks like an English version will only be a fortnight or so behind.

[Via AkihabaraNews]

[Romey Rome @ Feb 27th 2007 4:16PM]

37 gigs for a radio?! Yeah right! More like extra space for porn.

[mike @ Feb 27th 2007 4:56PM]

surely that's not enough space for a clock radio! pfft

[NHAnimator @ Feb 27th 2007 5:13PM]

It takes about that much music to wake me up some mornings.

[Philip S @ Feb 27th 2007 5:20PM]

As a talk radio addict, this has my name all over it.

[aaj111 @ Feb 27th 2007 6:07PM]

37 Gigs? That's way too much... I think 1gig would do fine, for a clock radio... Maybe 10 MAX... But 37...

[Kev50027 @ Feb 27th 2007 7:49PM]

I don't understand this. About the 37.. it's a 40 GB hard drive people, it has 37 GB of usable storage. What bugs me is that why? The speakers on that thing are going to be so bad that it will be pathetic, so what's the point? If you want to record FM, get an FM tuner for a PC.

[Rob @ Feb 28th 2007 1:01AM]

This is quite an interesting product, but there are a few inaccuracies in the translation, like it records in WMA, not WAV and the 'English' version is actually a collection of English-learning radio shows (i.e. no US version is likely):

http://www.digitalworldtokyo.com/2007/02/olympus_radio_server_can_doubl.php

[Samuel Erikson @ Feb 28th 2007 10:00AM]

That should be WMA or MP3, not WAV. If it were storing WAV files it'd be closer to 70+ hours.

[Jeff Myers @ Feb 28th 2007 12:00PM]

Does it have an alarm?

Jeff