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RE: OT - Rio Karma


  • Subject: RE: OT - Rio Karma
  • From: "Rowdy" <aoop43@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:39:51 +0100

Which one do you have, the AV3xx series look nice, probably getting to
be more than I want to spend though.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: groups@xxxxxxx [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 18 April 2004 18:45
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT - Rio Karma


Keith

have you thought about an archos? They play video, mp3's etc etc and my
little archos has been very good.

www.archos.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rowdy" <aoop43@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 6:20 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT - Rio Karma


> Thanks Tony,
>
> After researching this for a while there have been a fair amount of
> problems with the Rio unit and I must admit it does worry me a bit. I
> think I'm swaying to the iriver anyway, better capacity and I like the
> look of it as well.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Keith
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Butler [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 18 April 2004 12:36
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT - Rio Karma
>
>
> Work colleague and his m8 bought karmas at the same time.
> Worked fine for a few weeks, raved about the features etc.
> The one died with an error "bad karma" (seriously)
> Two days later, the other died, same thing
>
> Took about 2 months to get a replacement.
> IIRC, it's something to do with the HD arm getting stuck 1/2 way
across
> the
> platter or something and rio are/were in disupte with the HD
> manufacturer
> about whether it was their fault or a firmware fixable thing.
>
> Dunno the outcome, but I know there were a lot of other ppl in the
same
> boat
> as this guy at work and that it took friggin ages for them to get
> replacements too.
>
> Aside from both of them crapping out in a matter of weeks, both he and
> his
> m8 were very happy with them :/
>
> Hth,
>
> Tony.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rowdy [mailto:aoop43@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 17 April 2004 23:25
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] OT - Rio Karma
> >
> > I seem to remember someone on the list mentioning a Rio Karma
> > a while ago, was this something that the person owned, I'm
> > looking for something myself at the moment and the two
> > devices at the top of the list are the iriver iHP-140 or the
> > Rio Karma. I was after some first hand feedback on the device.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Keith
> >
> >
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