What is DMC, and why should I buy from them?

According to a review on their website: "the player needs to scan the harddisk at startup - this took some 6 seconds per 6 GB of data, which may seem like a long time. However, if one doesn't change the HDD's contents for a while, startup time is reduced to about 2 seconds.".

Hillarious.

Apparently a company that supports WMA and MP3 only. Still won't beat my iPod though, considering 90% of my music is in AAC format.

Actually, the comparison chart they have on their site shows the iPod favors well ... but can imagine the "my Player has a bigger hard drive than your player" conversations happening...

that it uses USB 2.0. Though theoretically USB 2.0 is faster then Firewire 400, in practice that's not normally the case. Unlike USB, Firewire was DESIGNED for high-speed storage. USB has extra overhead that makes it unstable at higher speeds. (I found one site that said in practice USB 2.0 is only about 4 to 13 times as fast as 1.1, not the reported 40 times as fast.)

I will however, reiterate my request that apple quickly add an FM tuner and preferably FM recording to the iPod. It's long overdue.

Their website says it "can store up to 8,000 songs". That can't be a storage limitation. A 4GB iPod stores about 1,000 songs, so a 80GB one should store up to 20,000. What's stranger is that the website also says that it can store up to 2,400 hours of music on the 40GB version at 64kbps. Using this bitrate, you can go way over 8,000 songs. Is there some kind of software limitation?

This player may not be bad. It has a specific market, mainly geeks who wish to have the largest available storage space. I am pretty sure that this new player will be hackable as well, so all the hardware hackers could add extra features to it later on.

The upgradeable hard drive is nice too. I love my iPod, and will not switch, but I think this product is not as bad as you guys think. It is not nearly as elegant as the iPod, but definitely has great specs.

I read through the comparison as well. It's strange b/c with so many features where the iPod came out on top, the webpage felt more like a review article than a pro-DMC page. I give them credit for honesty.

The specs sheet has several errors where it compares the iPod to their player. Someone over there didn't do their research. According to them, there is no voice recording available on the iPod and it lists the available sizes as: 15GB,20, and 30. It totally does not mention the mini and constantly refers to Apple's ports as 'proprietary'.

It's almost twice as large and 50 percent heavier as the iPod, based on the MacNN numbers.