Digital Voice Recorder

Spent a little time at the Sony Outlet store the other day, looking especially at their Digital Voice Recorders. There's one that I especially like that is described on the Sony web pages, but this one, of course, is refurbished and available at the outlets in white for 512 MB, I believe. It records files in .DVF format (digital voice file) which can then be converted to MP3 format through LAME or perhaps in iTunes. Having used Audacity which saves files in .aud and .wav format, and then using LAME to encode them or iTunes to encode, this process is swift and simple. The best things I like about this recorder are 1) the USB port on one end of it, so you can just stick your recorder into your machine and upload right away, no fuss, no muss, no extra cords; and 2) the wide hook-like piece on the end that would easily let you run a 1/2" or 3/4" ribbon or thick cord through the opening so you can create a lanyard that easily lies flat against your chest, instead of these little bitty openings that you can only run fishing wire through that would dangle and bang against your chest as you talk, probably creating a pecular thumping noise throughout every lecture as you move. The wide opening would keep this recorder more stable.

p.s. at the outlets, this baby is $70 or 80 for a refurbished white one while the others sell for more.