SonicBlue RioVolt SP90 - MP3/CD Player for $55

[WingdingYB]

This is hot!!

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then...

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here's a picture of it:

http://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/5462/2h/www.digitalriver.com/v2.0-img/operations/diamulti/image/s/p/9/sp90-flat-220.jpg

not a bad player for $55 bucks, eh?

[alaskadan]

The cool thing about this model is that someone took the SP-100? firmware and hacked it to work with the SP-90, which is supposedly non-upgradeable.

[WingdingYB]

Yeah I heard something like that too... here's a post I saw under CNET's user opinions:

got tired of those silly dancing men on the LCD screen, so I decided to open my up my sp-90 and put some black electrical tape over part of LCD to hide those little boogers. well, I removed the screws and pulled out the ciruit board and guess what I discovered. Printed on the Board was "IMP-100". Not only is the SP-90 firmware upgradable, but it actually is a "100". go figure!

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by hacking the firmware, could you elaborate a bit?

[alyosha]

He means - go to yahoo group "riovolt" and download a copy of firmware for sp-90 (which is an already hacked version of sp-100- new filename, and hex hack) than burn it to CDRW and put into you sp-90, press "play" it will flash "Upgrading" and then display version 2.1 instead of version 1 of firmware - this one wil support playlists and wil even have the lighting option which is available for sp-100, however this won't work, since sp-90 lacks a backlighting diod.

[WingdingYB]

The price went up to $79.95 (before rebate)

[cactus]

I see ~9$ shipping and ~5$ handling. Still sweet, but no longer 55$ after rebate...

[WingdingYB]

Originally posted by chosenfool


thats one thing that keeps me from considering the SP90 - the LCD isnt backlit.

true... but look at the price... its not like plunking down 200 bucks on the sp250 model... minimal risk

[ChrisMG187]

I have this and it's a good player, i'll have to look into upgrading the firmware on it.

[WingdingYB]

You have the sp90? I just got mine in the mail by the way... haven't upgraded it yet though...