Capacity limitation...

[lxrichbirdxl]

WHY NOT?

iPod have 60GB model, if ever Sony HDD players have larger space, it would only do good to help NW-A3000 to become iPod killer...

Is it a strategy to keep sucking out our money which future(...in ages) space upgrade?

In which we would not be able to resist, indeed. Sigh, I have no choice.

[Dinko]

Especially given the size of the thing.

I can understand why the NWHD1 or NWHD5 were limited to 20GB. Those things are tiny. But for the NW A3000 to be limited to 20GB... kinda lame. Especially that it has no other features except playing music and looking pretty.

[pata2001]

Maybe Sony is waiting for the perpendicular hard-drives to be more common in the marketplace?

[Beethovenian]

I think they just believe the market for bigger capacity players is not big enough. Still, it's lame. Others offer this. There's a niche there, among others with Sony's own customers who would like a better reason to upgrade.

[Christopher]

I think they just believe the market for bigger capacity players is not big enough.

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I agree with this sentiment. Perhaps they're not comfortable yet with the stability software as well, and if Connect Player proves itself they'll ascend into higher densities (a hogwash theory ).

[lxrichbirdxl]

It is all because of the differring audio formats that sony and other companies use...somehow people who don't like atrac won't be satisfied with what the players can offer, especially when there's the ultra popularity of iPod, and therefore, mp3(as most people are nooby, they wouldn't care much about formats, so they tend to stick to what most people are using). I had a friend who quite liked the NW series models, but once he heard that the player custom EQ can only be used for Atrac songs, he wouldn't want to give a damn anymore...There's just something not right. Nevertheless, I sense the upcoming offers from Sony, would be more perfected...just imagine the full colour OLED HDD player out here.

[shadowritten]

I get the sense that Sony are still sounding out the DAP market. They got seriously wrong-footed by Apple a few years back, then sat idly by while their crown was stolen. Now they're playing catch-up. So don't expect to see radical innovations of the kind we've enjoyed from Sony in the past until they've levelled the playing (player?) field somewhat. And this, sadly, includes enormous capacity HDDs - which I, like many, would seriously welcome.