At Costco they sell the Sansa 1GB for like $120 or something. It was solid in my opinion in all regards but the major block for me was the lack of resume. as I stated I listen to streaming audio - audio books and DJ sets - Armin Van Burren and DJ Tiesto. Sansa tech said the other models (not e140 and their equiv) had the "bookmark" feature. Feature - should be mandated by Congress!
Assuming nothing more is said here, at least it would be nice to see you spend a bit of time and post your review on Epinions (good or bad).
Good luck with the firmware (always fun!).
How does the Belkin transmitter work? You plug it into the "headset out" then it locks into a dead radio signal and beams the audio? Thought that was only for iPODS. My buddy and I tried his in his house and said the same thing - at home there is probably more interference (hence I can get Classical FM no problems on 96.3 in the car.. but at home hear noise - so I sometimes tune to 103.0 and hear it ok).
And on shopping - never care to look at ads nor go out Boxing day. I hear "sales" were good this holiday but the consensus so far is "low margin crap". (That would be in sync with the problems in the US - Best Buy reporting poor sales prior to Christmas). We shall see.
Lately I have started watching "ON THE MONEY" at 7pm on CNBC. An excellent show - sort of liken it to a TV version of Business Week - lots of little stories that help give me the big picture. Someone came on the show and discussed a company's sales/profits (Circuit City or Best Buy or similar) and reemed off a number like $3B in sales and they made a profit of $13Million. The question posed was "Why would you waste your time trying to sell $3B in stuff to only get back $13Million?" Chuckle.
Cheers John at al!
Blake
"When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."
Tuco (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
"An umbrella with holes is better than no umbrella at all."
Dr. Alexander Elder on using stops.
