Ambroos

Hmpfh Oh how happy I was when I bought my NW-A805 for a well overpriced 177 euros (at launch), which is an awful lot for 2GB... Oh how happy I am now when I see the stereo set I wanted to buy (Sony CMT-HX3) that claims all that nice Walkman and ATRAC support doesnt support exactly this model range. Oh how happy I was when I trusted on SonicStage to be able to Sync my music back, and to now have noticed that you can only transfer music to your pc if it already is there (which is o so obvious ofcourse) Oh how happy I am... How bloody damn happy... Anyone want to trade a A805 for an A815? I have (had) to pay more, I have to click more (SonicStage), I have to (re)rip more, I have to look more (for HiFi sets)... Happy greetings from Ambroos

I got replied that there won't be a firmware upgrade for NW-A800 series and older models to support Windows Media Player/anything else. Please, sign this petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/opensony/) to make Sony do this! Thanks

In August, Sony announced that it will stop providing its own music store service Connect in the United States, Canada and Europe by march 2008, and that all new Walkman players will be useable with Windows Media stores, and that it would be possible to transfer songs from any software program you would like to use. The new walkmans that will be released in some days, are already ready for the open platform Sony has made the transition to. Today, Sony announced by mail that there won't be a firmware update for Walkmans currently released, which are still built for the online Connect store. For owners of any older Walkman this means that they won't have any opportunity to buy songs legal for their players, except for premium, DRM-free services. Users have already complained that this is very unreasonable from the side of sony, considering that the biggest part of the new Walkmans is exactly the same as the old ones, except for some minor firmware changes. The Sony Walkman user base already started an online petition which will be sended to Sony if there won't be a firmware update before the Connect store closes. Source: neowin http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=42381 I encourage you all to sign the petition, it can only be good for us! SIGN THE PETITION!