I wanted the Stream because I can download NLS books.  No more waiting for 
talking books to arrive in the mail.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: IPOD


> either that or one of the Iaudio products like the H5....20 gb of storage
> with the ability to play back mp3, ogg, wma and a bunch of other
> formats...stores and displays text and vidio, and is accessible with the
> speech friendly program called rockbox.
> Also the sandisc players are great, specifically the E series....they have
> players from 1 gb up to 8gb in the sandisc E series, and all are 
> accessible
> with rockbox and very very easy to operate.  Also pretty inexpensive on
> ebay.
> The victor reader is great if you have the 300 bucks to blow on a toy, or
> unless you can justify using it every day for something.
> Personally i've already got a laptop that does most of everything, and 
> most
> audio media is in mp3 or ogg format, or can quickly be put into those
> formats and tossed on the mp3 player that supports ogg.
> Ipods are too expensive and are only popular because apple was very very
> smart with their branding and marketting campaigns and so now everyone 
> wants
> an "ipod" and not just any old mp3 player.  This brings the price up
> significantly higher then most other brands of mp3 players.  The ipods are
> also program specific much of the time, requiring itunes or some other 
> third
> party software to load songs onto them.  Sandisc and Iaudio, and probably
> most of the other ones, act as a removable hard drive when you plug them
> into the USB port and are quite Jaws friendly that way.
> most of them can also act as mass storage devices for document files,
> pictures, vidio or whatever else you might want to stick on them.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
>