Sanyo's 8GB voice recorder: ready for the 1,000 hour filibuster

Not that anyone was actually keeping track, but Sanyo just announced the world's largest capacity MP3 voice recorder. That's 8GB kid with a hefty ¥43,000 (about $375) price to match. For that you get up to 12 hours of PCM stereo recordings or up to 1,000 hours of lowly MP3 compression. The flash memory can also be divided into 4GB of encrypted recordings (accessed with a PIN) and 4GB of general purpose rants or music including DRM'd WMA tracks from your fave PlaysForSure music store. The ICR-PS390RM (aka, DIPLY TALK) launches in Japan later this month.

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[stridermt2k Posted Nov 6th 2007 8:51AM]

RANT MODE ACTIVE

Hey! Manufacturers!

Just cut the crap and put memory card slots in 'em already!

What, like a voice recorder is some esoteric thing that can't use 'em for some reason?

BS!

Just do it and shut up.

RANT MODE IS NOW OFF

[JoshF Posted Nov 6th 2007 8:54AM]

So true...

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 6th 2007 9:02AM]

I've never had a need to use a voice recorder, so I never thought about the need for an sd slot, but that makes a buttload of sense.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 6th 2007 9:31AM]

For $375, get an 80Gig iPod & voice recorder attachment.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 6th 2007 4:42PM]

Why would you get an iPod, when you can get something better such as the Creative Zen?

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 6th 2007 11:36AM]

This is still not large enough for most US Senators.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 6th 2007 1:31PM]

The Creative Zen Vision:M has 60gb of hard drive space and built in voice recording...

How does this qualify as the "highest capacity" voice recorder?

(Oh, and you could probably get one for half the price of one of these...)

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 7th 2007 6:24PM]

The gorillas in the dictation hardware industry - Philips and Olympus - have had card slot devices for quite some time. Sanyo is a minor player in this game. The power users of these devices - lawyers and doctors - create dictations that are 1-15 minutes long and submit them for transcription ASAP. They do not store hours and hours of work to be transcribed at some point in the future. Adding hard disc space is merely technology upmanship with scant regard for the reality of how these devices are used in the real world. How about some real innovation like making the digital recorder vibrate a little when it is recording so that the author knows it is recording without looking at the screen. This is how doctors and lawyers know a tape device is recording - tape mechanism vibration.

Simon
http://www.acappella.com.au
Acappella is a portable Conference Audio Solution that records multiple attendees in CD quality sound and during playback, tells the transcriptionist who is speaking.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 9th 2007 7:24AM]

this is hot i was just looking for a usb voice recorder, is it 16 bit? also looking for a 16 bit usb answering machine with hi quality mics

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 28th 2008 11:02AM]

I need an Answering Machine USB connecto and software in order to download the massages into a PC and save them in a special folder.