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Hot or Not …

October 27, 2006

as promised my first avatar …

Hot or Not ?

hot or not

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Posted in Commodore, Personal, Photo, nescio |

12 comments

  1. Wow this looks great!

         by Hans Mestrum October 27, 2006 at 3:54 pm

  2. Commodore Inside

    Ik was vandaag weer bij Commodore. En wil je weten hoe het er daar een beetje uitziet op de R&D afdeling? Bekijk dan deze video die ik op het eind van mijn bezoekje toen ik weg ging snel even al lopend maakte. Zet je speakers ook even open. Niet dat…

         by Hans on Experience October 27, 2006 at 4:05 pm

  3. hi there, maybe this is not the correct thread, but im a little bit confused, buyed the commodore epic player today and the instruction said that i have to go to commodoreworld.com to check for firmwareupdates, i just cant find them so i hope that you can tell me where to go for it.
    yours truly

         by ulli November 1, 2006 at 5:25 pm

  4. Hi Ulli,
    please mail support AT commodorecorp.com and they will help you out.

    thanks,

         by nescio November 1, 2006 at 8:07 pm

  5. No it isn’t hot, because yeahronimo/tulip leaves customers alone with their rotten eVic mp3-player signed with this logo. No information on your website, no firmware, absolutly nothing. The evic has ruined the logo an the faith of the brandmark.

         by Steve December 11, 2006 at 11:20 pm

  6. Hi Steve,

    sorry that you feel so frustrated. Did you try to reach support for your problems? Feel free to do so.
    thx\

         by Nescio December 12, 2006 at 7:15 am

  7. Thanks for your quick response. I have bought Commodore eVic the late 2005 agog with expectation to play ogg/vorbis-files because I’m using GNU/Linux and ogg is my choice for music encoding. Unfortunately the sound is scratching if you turn on the EQ. I have contacted ‘hardwaresupport@commodorecorp.com’ but every time the email returned with ‘delivery failure’. I was so angry that I posted the first entry here. Perhaps you can tell your employer that there are people waiting for some information on the website about further support for the player. What will I do if the accumulator is broken? No way to change it. I hope you understand my harsh words in the first posting. Best regards

         by Steve December 13, 2006 at 9:53 pm

  8. Hi Steve,
    please try support@commodoreworld.com maybe they can help you further with this device. I’m from the Gravel generation so can not help you there but only suggest you. Now you hit the ogg/vorbis word anyway, do you and ofcourse others think that this is a must have codec for us?
    thanks,

         by Nescio December 14, 2006 at 3:24 pm

  9. I have read the gravel pruduct sheet (gravel pocket) an I have seen your videos about that device. My first impression is that it is a really nice and well designed gadget with a lot of features, but:

    Since I’m using opensource software products, I am very close to the ideas of opensource community and for me formats like ogg/vorbis, flac or speex are the best choice. I would never accept DRM mechanism, because a lot of problems are combined with this technology. The quality of ogg is great and at minimum coequal to mp3/wma. With a fresh linux installation, i.e Ubuntu which I use, you are not able to play mp3- or wma- files without to get in trouble with law. Happily the company Fluendo has paid a license of Fraunhofer and Thomson to be able to distribute a binary mp3 decoder freely available for gstreamer users. Mostly Frauenhofer/Thomson are very kind to opensource software developer (mp3decoder) and they don’t claim for money.

    The Gravel’ WiFi is absolutely great but your company persue a oneway if customers only able to connect commodore’s distribution chain. People don’t want to be restricted at that point. They want (not especially me) also use things which has accepted by majority, i.e youtube or itunes music store to view videos or buy music. I would use WiFi to hear netradio all over the world or stream from player to my Hifi Stereo. Best regards — Steve

         by Steve December 14, 2006 at 10:48 pm

  10. There ist one thing left. If people feel restricted with their hardware and have enough knowhow to hack players microcontroller , they do it as you can see on http://www.rockbox.org

         by Steve December 14, 2006 at 10:58 pm

  11. Hi Steve,

    thanks for your feedback and i will use it in my brainsessions for future features. Because of the DRM contracts witht the labels we need to use the WMA format, our platform will be open enough for developers to add extra codecs and we will deliver some of them ourselves so you will be able to view/upload other formats ….

    thanks,

         by Nesscio December 15, 2006 at 10:49 am

  12. Where can I read about pic16f84 microcontroller in your blog ?!

         by nitlogic March 29, 2009 at 6:14 am

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