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]
posted Feb 27th 2007 4:02PM
37 gigs for a radio?! Yeah right! More like extra space for porn.
surely that's not enough space for a clock radio! pfft
It takes about that much music to wake me up some mornings.
As a talk radio addict, this has my name all over it.
37 Gigs? That's way too much... I think 1gig would do fine, for a clock radio... Maybe 10 MAX... But 37...
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.
That should be WMA or MP3, not WAV. If it were storing WAV files it'd be closer to 70+ hours.
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
Does it have an alarm?
Jeff