Trouble in the House of Aiwa

Dottocomu reports that all is not well in the House of Aiwa (which is really just a subsidiary of Sony). A bunch of the new MP3 players this past January are now beset with problems: the AZ-FS256,
an MP3 player built-into a pair of headphones has been cancelled because they couldn't manage to find an FM tuner that would fit into it; their two hard drive-based players which were supposed to come out this month, the HZ-WS2000
(pictured at right) and the HZ-DS2000, have been delayed until next month because the 2GB hard drive they were going to put into them wasn't reliable enough, so now they're using 1.5GB drives instead, but keeping the price the same; and their two players using Aiwa's Pavit USB Flash memory drives have been held back until June because of, once again,
reliability problems. It's better that they're choosing to delay things rather than put shoddy products onto the market, but it sounds like there is something seriously wrong there at Aiwa.