Olympus DS30 & DS-40 Discontinued in Australia

Some news out of Olympus Australia this week is that the popular large meeting and focus group digital voice recorder the DS-30 has been discontinued. The next model up the DS-40 will also suffer the same fate in the next week or two.

My suspicion is that both these models will be replaced by a single new recorder, the Olympus DS-55 which is yet to be seen in Australia and as yet no pricing is available for this model.

As the DS-50 was recently dumped and replaced by the DS-65 it looks to me that it is not likely that we will see the DS-75 model available across Europe. This make sense, the three model choice of the DS-30, DS-40 and DS-50 was a bit of overkill where two models would do.

As soon as we receive news on the DS-55, its availability and Australian pricing we will update the blog with the info. In the mean time, feast your eyes on this stunning silver model and wipe a tear for the legendary DS-30.