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Just came back from working our booth at Macworld. Only had 20 min. to run around and take in the show, but it looks like there *are* some Bluetooth iPod solutions for the car.
It's not on their site yet, but Griffin was showing something called BlueTrip which looks like it will also allow Bluetooth iPod to your car stereo.
I swear NoiseDesign said that bluetooth was too low-bandwidth to pump good music.
Well, who knows what it actually sounds like. I mean, FM transmission sounded like a good idea to me until I actually tried it. And other people swear it works for them. Scosche had a truck near their booth that had a stereo going but I was in such a rush I didn't poke my head in (plus the $325 it'd cost to set my car up is more than I can afford).
Bluetooth strikes me as more consistent in quality, since the airwave variable is a big one. But as things stand, FM's going to be less good sound quality than a decent tape adapter, just because of the nature of the FM beast.
The thing I wonder--is decent FM better or worse than decent Bluetooth?
Around the house I just use line in instead.
I asked Scosche about what my car would need. My car's a 1997 so it'd need an adapter. Which requires someone to go open the stereo up and do shit with wires. In which case, at that price, I might as well just buy an Alpine line-in stereo.
I swear NoiseDesign said that bluetooth was too low-bandwidth to pump good music.
I may have, but I don't know the bandwidth available on bluetooth off the top of my head. It may also be using bluetooth 2.0 which has better bandwidth I believe.
I got a Nikon camera, want to take a phooooo-tograph,
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away!
In the most recent fiscal year ended March 2005, Nikon said that film camera bodies accounted for 3 percent of the 180 billion yen ($1.5 billion) in sales at the company's camera and imaging division. That is down from 16 percent the previous year.
By contrast, sales of digital cameras have soared, the company said, jumping to 75 percent of total sales in the year ended March 2005, from 47 percent three years earlier. Scanners and other products account for the remainder of the division's sales.
Wow! I'm sad, but it's hard to argue the business merits of the decision.