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did your NW-S706 also got x-rayed while in "stand-by-mode" ? greetz steven

hello, after years of enjoying the various SONY HDD i changes some weeks ago to the new flash-based NW-A808. ...and its great! a real treat for your ears!!! as i will catch a fligt in some days, i was was thinking of the fact that the player will only shut completely down after about 24HRS or so, that means when i will have to check the player at security-check it will probably still be in stand-by-mode. so i imagine that for this there will still be some sort of voltage/electricity activatet in the flash memory or so...... so now i am a little worried, if this together with a dose of x-ray during the check might be harmful to the player or erase some data from it. i flew last year with the HDD-walkman and it was fine, but that is a different memory technique and it was also not in stand-by-mode! so anybody already took a journey with the NW-A8XX series? or with another SONY flash-player that will remain in stand-by-mode for so long time? what good is such a long stand-by-mode for anyway? i would be glad for a relieve of my worrys by some people who have already passed through x-ray with their flash players!!

hi, i getting ready to leave for beach holidays in the maldives. since nowbody could report so far to my older thread, i know like to now if any owner of a nw-a3000 has travel experiences in tropical areas? is the humidity and the salt in the air really that dangerous to the player? ...or is there anybody who uses it in florida or so... how reliable works the unit under such extreme climate just to calme me a little, HAS ANYONE EXPERIENCE many thanks for your help!!!

hello stugee my friend! well i understand your reasons. i trust the nw-hd 5 more, because i read here in the forum that the aw-3000 has a little problem with its coverage. it seems to happen that for some people it in fact cracked sort of open, so i was thinking that the nw-hd 5 is better sealed (it has also a covered usb and electricity port) and so it would be more resistant to the humidity. i also start worry about the salt there on the beach!!! i look on the internet for more people who have any experience with their sony or even ipods in this einviroments, and i found not much, some ipods users had a (temporary) failure and some others had no problems, i hope still that more people with experience will answer here in the forum! well if i take it with me i will buy even a small neopren bag, which is waterproof and will also add there a small bag of silicate gel to pick up the moisture, but maybe i am just crazy, sometimes i think that many travellers there have an ipod or sony with them and nothing happens..... anyway, take good care, a big hello to new-delhi greetings steve

hello i use for the my two players the sony bags designed for them, for the NW-Hd5 this is only some textile bag and for the NW-A3000 its a pretty thin soft bag so i bought myself a little waterproof bag designed for digital cameras, this is quite big but offers a quite good upholstery, which in my opinion is the most important thing. Thoug i use it only for "heavy duty" greetings steve

thanks to everybody so far for your answers! it helps a littel bit. the thing now is, i in fact will be staying for two weeks on very small island (800 meters long 200 meters wide) so i will be definately stay REALLY ON THE BEACHFRONT!! Of course my walkman will be staying a lot of time inside the bungalow (air-conditioned), but also will come outside everyday for some time! so i wonder.... whats in this matter is considered "long time", i guess two weeks is not that long...or is it?? well if i take a player with me, i trust the NW-HD5 more to be stable than the AW-3000, what you guys think? greetings (specailly to my friend stugee and also to all the other "internationals" question to kit: are you jogging on the beachfront in malaisya?

hello as i referred in my other threads i will be staying for some weeks in the tropics (maldives) and plan to take a walkman with me. there are still some (paranoid?) doubts of me, if the player can be regularly used in such climate conditions. i think not really the temperature is a problem, but the humidity in the air (80-90%) could very well be. especially since SONY officially advised me not bring my player there. on the other hand they sell their products also in such tropic countries, which is in my opinion very contadictionary. i now many people there use computers and laptops but do this often in air-conditioned areas. but i will be using the player mostly outside. So does anybody lives in the tropics or have benn spending time in such areas (for example thailand, maldives, carribean, south east asia) and has been using his gear (can also be laptops etc. any HDD) and confirm here that he/she never had a problem resulting from this. i would be glad to here your experiences thanks a lot, steve

hello and welcome well i congratulate you for your purchase, you will be very happy with your player. i am using this model and the oldder versin (nw-hd5) for month now on a daily base and never get disppointed yet. to your questions i can only tell you this: i hade major problems with the CONNECT software, so i preferred to use the sonic.stage 3.3. for a software, and this all runs smooth (even if some features seem not work, as i read in this forum somwhere, which i cannont not confirm since i never felt to use them. ) welcome to the community anyway, greetings steve

hello, we one can get for shure very well educated here in this forum!!! i understand now (thanks to the posted link to the wikipedia-stuff) that one cannot use the HDD-players in high altutude, but that it is possible to do so in an pressurised airplane cabin. what happens if one is flying in a small plane (like a twin otter or a cessna, waterplane or similar...) which does not supply a pressurized passenger cabin. how high thoes planes are flying (any pilots or so in the forum?)? what if one is above the 3000 feet but is not operating his player/HDD-unit? is it still possible to damage the HDD? greetings to all the freaks here special greeting to stugee steve

hello, so it seems that the SONY HDD-players are all equipped with the 1.8" HD by Toshiba (as some members of this forum are saying) officially Toshiba is saying on their internet side, that their HDD will be able to take a heat of 65 - 70 degrees celsius (non operating mode)? so does this means, that if i ever leave my players (even for a short time, 1 or hours) during summer inside a car, in which the temperature could easily be higher than this limit, could be fatal to its HDD? Or does this means if the HDD is exposed to such a enviroment regularly for a long time? by the way, when i was buying my AW-3000 here in switzerland, they first wanted to give me a piece which was laying inside a display, under a (hot) lamp, it was feeling really warm to hold it in my hand, so i refused to take this piece and insisted in having in one still originally packed from their storage. even though the one from the display was working fine. who have experience and/or knowledge? greetings steve

hello stugee, how are you? well i was also ask sony (again like for the x-ray thing). supprisingly they recommend me NOT to use the player in the tropic. i personally think also that it should be okay (at least for a limitied amount of time, i guess it could have a shorter live span when one is residing in such a climate with about 80-90 % humidity). i think maybe the SONY person was pissed off, that i was already sending her a question again! or they did not check about it and just answer to be on the shure side (see topic "SONY treat european customers bad?). so any member who lives or was travelling in a tropic climate zone and can confirm that SONY actually sells such devices there (what about thailand f.e.?), because then i like to confrfont this sony-person with this fact... this will be fun well, i will take my walkman there, we will see what will be happening, ohterwise i claim the guarantee as in the manuals there is no reference to not to use the device in tropic. greetings steve

hello together, yes indeed i could also not work with the connect software, it was slow down also the other applications on my pc. anyway, it has to be said the player works fine with the sonic.stage updated to version 3.3. this is no excuse for sony, i know, but on the other side, lets accept the fact that their products such as th AW-3000 and also the nw-Hd5 are, in my opinion, very very good excellent product. they beat the so well known i-pods for good. wich leads me to another mistake sony made, i am living in switzerland, where A LOT of people uses portable music players. leading on the market are by far the different i-pods, even though the product is not as good as the sonys are. but apple had made a brillant marketing campaign to push their players, it was a very intense campain and they used a lot of cross-selling by working together with other products such as banks, fashion and others. on the other side here i did not see a singel advertisement for the new aw-3000. only for the relase of the nw-hd5 last year there was a short spanned very little advertisment to see. this is sad for sony because like i said their products are lot better than the i-pods. anyway, this is of course no excuse for the software problems with the connect software, which also costed me a very long night of trying to make it work, which concluded in the using of the sonicstage 3.3, which for me is a good enough software. this are my thoughts on this, greetings steven

hello, well i use on of this casette adapters and set my player to "line out" it just works smooth and excellent! this is a cheap reliabel way! greetings steve

hello everybodey, sony refers in the manual not to use the players in "extreme conditions of humidity". what does "extreme" means? so if i use my device in the tropics where the humidity is about 80% is this already "extreme", do i risk that my player will be damaged? anybody knows more about or have any experience in "extreme" conditions of humidity? greetings steve

if the apple will survive, does that mean necesseary that the sony will do so? i hope so? i still hope to find somebody who actually really flew with one of his hard-disc devices and can assure that his gadget survived the x-ray check. thanx