lyris

My guess is that they'd help you out, but charge you for return shipping costs to Japan.

eBay

I think that the problems with OLED are only related to OLED TVs (which is why you can't buy any yet). The blue component of these seems to fail quickly. Since the OLEDs in the players are monochrome (right?), I don't think you have anything to worry about.

Yes, that's a hard disk problem. I'm not sure if the disk can be repaired. However, I think I may be able to find you a perfectly good 20gb drive that came out of an HD5 that had a broken headphone output if you're interested in spare parts...

Haven't tried PSP videos but yes, the "iPod" versions of video podcasts work directly on the NW-A800 without transcoding.

Sonyslave, what does the text on the back of yours say under the "MADE IN CHINA" line and above the "Li-ion" logo? Mine's in Japanese and I've been wondering what it means.

Yes, tell us what you think. I'm listening to my [Japanese] one right now and LOVE it

Glad to see it's coming out in North America. I'm in the UK and bought mine from Japan but most people are scared of imports. I also love the "Disappointed when your battery dies" mention. Subtle. Why do none of the Sony sites promote the hell out of the fact that it comes with $105 value headphones?

Shinji, do you use the Equaliser function on your NW-A808? If so, have you heard the slight scratching it sometimes produces in quiet parts of the sound? I uploaded a 1.2mb WAV file of it here, I'm not sure if you'll be able to hear what I'm talking about or not: http://lyrisfiles.landofwhimsy.com/nwa808_odd.wav Absolutely delighted with the quality of the sound even with that slight problem though

WOW. Just got mine today and I am VERY impressed by the sound quality and build! For those interested I posted a mini review with pictures on my web site. http://www.lyris-lite.net/2007/03/sony_nwa...go_get_one.html

Yeah, eBay is a much cheaper idea. I'll leave it a few days so I'm not competing against you and bidding the thing up!

That's what's confusing me as well. Are the buttons actually "built in" to the shell? The shell costs 49.25 UK pounds, or $88 US to replace (I called the UK and US Sony Spare Parts centers). Does anyone know if I bought a new shell, would it com with the cable already attached to the button part?

I've done the exact same thing. I managed to mangle the flex cable when I was sliding the main body back in. Can anyone help us?

Wow, this is a versatile little player. Thanks again for the advice!

Excellent ! Thanks for the answer! So, these can all be played natively: ATRAC3 ATRAC3Plus ATRAC Advanced Lossless MP3 And these need to be transcoded by SonicStage: AAC WMA WAV / AIFF / Linear PCM Or, can it even play AAC and WMA natively (so long as the files are without DRM)?