Posts by Crispin

World's most gullible supermarket chain falls victim to online scam

If they can't even spell...

..then they deserve all they get. 'Supervalu' indeed. Pah!

Blue Note label to offer downloads'n'social on web

Wahey, fantastic reportage...

Well done El Reg. So you've managed to grab a thinly veiled PR press release, smear it with some tired old stereotypes, and then you've passed it off as a news item. I know it's August, but surely you could find *some* news?

'Portable' CD player puts MP3 into a spin

Luke and Ted Treen

I think what Rubbish meant was that the CD spins at 500rpm when the head is reading data from the middle of the disc, and 200rpm when it's reading data from the outside of the disc. I hope so anyway, otherwise physics has indeed been warped.

Cowon D2 premium digital media player

Hmm, an audio player?

Quote - "Maybe better ears than mine will appreciate them more. Whatever, it's surely better to have such options to personalise the sound you hear than not."

I'm a little confused. Surely if you're reviewing an audio/visual device you should have confidence in your own hearing?! I'm no audiophile, but I would have thought that the primary quality of an audio player would be how it sounds. Yes, looks are important but with no commments on the quality of the headphones, general quality of the sound ( sorry, but 'I tried the D2 with a range of musical genres and enjoyed all of them' - doesn't really cut it as far as an audio critique), or anything other than a passing mention of a click when you turn on the bass enhancement, this is a pretty dire review. The one thing we're made very aware of is that it looks good. This is the one thing that we can see by looking at the pictures.