MDX-400

I think only the NH600 is available in the 3 different colours. The NH600D is only available in silver, as far as I've seen. I like the blue the best myself, but the white is nice too. I will agree though that the silver isn't too hot at all.

Just as a note: This is the same for pretty much all Li-Ion and Li-Ion-Poly batteries. Due to their nature, they are only capable of being recharged rapidly to ~80% of their capacity, and the charge controller must decrease the charge rate to "top-off" the battery. Continuing to rapid charge a Li-Ion after the 80% mark will result in either premature cell failure (low number of cycles before capacity drops off significantly), at best; or fire/rupture, in worse case scenarios. Another note: Try not to fully discharge a Li-Ion often. It isn't particularly good for cell life. Not saying don't use the full capacity when you need to, but Li-Ion chemistry does not "like" to be fully discharged so don't make it a regular thing unless you're fine with replacing the battery sooner rather than later. The batteries aren't too expensive but just a word of caution. Li-Ion batteries essentially have what I like to call "reverse-memory"--unlike NiCd and NiMH, you actually want to avoid fully depleting a Li-Ion before recharging. I.e. Recharge frequently

No no don't replace the 3WM if you don't have to. If it charges fine and holds a charge okay then that isn't the cause of the AA pack not working. It is either the AA pack or a problem with the unit's circuit that controls the AA power input. Since the AC adapter-through-the-AA-pack seems to work alright, then I'd say there is another problem with the AA pack. Perhaps there is some corrosion or oxidation on the battery terminals inside? Or there could be some cold solder joints from the AA terminals in the pack (but not for the AC adapter connection on the pack). I'd try cleaning or repairing the AA battery pack, or getting another one if that's what you're really after. Getting a new internal Li-Ion can't hurt (well unless you damage the unit replacing it, lol) but it certainly isn't going to magically make the AA pack work, if the existing Li-Ion does charge/work already. If the internal did not charge or work at all, that would be another story but from your description it does work (eventhough the capacity might be diminished it still works).

Just a general rule, this is for everything Bose. "Friends don't let friends buy Bose." Bose is all marketing hype and high prices for garbage products.

What sub $500 Pro MD recorders? I think the MDS-E58 was the only "low cost" Pro MD deck (perhaps there were one or two others like it, based on a home deck); but even that had a heavy duty pickup over the JE520 and a more rugged chassis. There's no mention at all of the pickup on the M200 being designed for anymore of a duty cycle than the RH1. Most of the other pro MD units (MDS-Bxx and MDS-Exx) were all $1000+. I doubt anyone or any company/business that used one of those pro units would consider a dinky little light-duty, same-as-the-consumer-portable-RH1, M200 a "Professional" unit. It's ridiculous!

I think this is actually legit... The link to the MS page from Softpedia goes to a Microsoft Site for Vista and WMP11; MS also links back to Softpedia on that page. I doubt Softpedia would actually host leaked software either. Says it is for "Windows 2K/XP/2003/Vista/XP X64" So it's probably the same version or at least the same downloader (?) for all those OSes.

Uhh, did you guys read the line at the top and bottom of the article that says: "This article is satire." ? It's a joke. Not real. (Though the mention of DMCA2 does seem ridiculous and it isn't a joke!)

But it is a rebadged RH1, lol. Doesn't the RH1 have Mac support already though? I thought it was supposed to? And I wonder how they can stamp the word "Professional" on this thing? Is the pickup any more heavy/duty or are there higher quality internals? Because if all the parts are the same that's kind of dumb that they went and called it "Professional". Unless of course the RH1 has "Professional" build quality, but I doubt that's the case.

Wait you're still fooling with the unit? Of course the ERROR EE is not going to go away unless you complete the calibration procedure. Usually this requires getting some volgates from points on the board (disassembly of the unit and soldering/de-soldering is usually required), plus you have to have a pre-record MD (and with Hi-MD you might indeed need the specific test discs which are like $300 each from Sony, LOL.) In other words... STOP fooling with it! LOL. It's not "worth a shot"... You've done enough damage! My advice is just send it back before you make things any worse, and play stupid like you don't know what happened. When you get the new one do yourself a favour and stay out of the service menu.

Yes the last part is right, definitely Hi-MD for data. The first part is slightly inaccruate. MD-Data is a long discontined, and short-lived format, based on MD. Drives were very slow and data could only be written to MD-Data discs which are shaped slightly different than a music MD. MD-Data drives could playback music MDs but not write to them*. MD-Data discs cannot be read or written in a regular [music] MD device--the discs won't fit nor would the MD unit do anything with the disc even if it could. MD-Data survived two generations but, as mentioned, the drives were very slow and therefore not really viable in the computer industry. Therefore they were discontinued quickly. It was a long time ago too, so most people don't even remember or know about MD-Data. Had it been a faster format, and had Sony really pushed it, I think it could have replaced the 3.5" floppy. But then again there have been better things (like the LS120 or Zip or EZ drives) none of which ever could displace the floppy. Thank goodness flash drives have finally made the floppy obsolete though (floppies were a terrible format). *I put an asterisk on MD-Data drives writing to music MDs because there was an exception. There was a company that modified one of the original MD-Data drives so it could actually write/modify MDs. This drive was extremely expensive, upwards of $5000 US IIRC. However it was and remains today as the only device that could be used to transfer ATRAC [292k] tracks to/from a PC without transcoding or decoding the ATRAC file first (which is what the RH1 does). I don't think there was any way to encode ATRAC with the software though--encoding still had to be done, in realtime, by an MD unit.

Oops yeah the 360 is $300 and $400, for some reason I thought it was $400 and $500. So I guess the PS3 is actually $200 more. Perhaps even more than that at release time if MS drops the price by then. But just because one game on the PS3 can be ported to the 360 doesn't mean the PS3 isn't more powerful because it is. It also doesn't even take into consider that porting the game might lose features, detail, etc. on the 360. The fact is the PS3 wipes the floor with the 360. It has more processing power and more GPU power as well, IIRC. Whether all that can be capitalised on properly by programmers or whether it makes an appreciable differnce in gameplay, graphics, etc. remains to be seen of course. About the Core PS3, yeah that is retarded how they stripped all those hardware features. The Core PS3 is looking to be a rip off, particularly since the things they deleted cannot be added or upgraded after the fact. (Not like the Core 360 which can be upgraded to everything the Premium has albeit costing more in the end.)

It's pretty much a JE480 with no other options and a pricetag several hundred dollars more So definitely not worth it. It's been discussed here previously, if you do a search you'll come up with at least 1 or 2 threads.

Nope, it's been there since the getgo. It's required for even the beginning of MD--in order to be able to record in different sectors of the disc, if need be, buffering is required. Take a look at the format whitepaper from way back in the day and you'll see. Also most decks had "Time Machine" recording which had to use that as well. Buffering during both recording and playback have always been a mandatory part of the MD standard.

LOL. Anti-skip during recording? Shocking!!! You're joking right? Welcome to 1992 and MD technology in general. The MZ-1 could do that (of course the buffer was much smaller).

Exactly. For it's capabilities the PS3 is well worth $100 more than the 360. It's like people completely ignore what these systems do and just look at the absolute price and nothing else. "Oh $600??? Waaay too expensive." Meanwhile the 360 is somehow not "too expensive"? Technically speaking neither are "too expensive" for the technology involved. Both are being sold at break-even points for the manufacturers. Technically the Wii is probably going to be the most overpriced system because Nintendo might make a profit on its pricetag (though I think they may be heading to break-even, loss-leader territory as the CPU setup is already nearly the same as the 360). However if we look at what these systems actually do, the 360 becomes the most "overpriced" of the lot. Buying a 360 plus a Wii is first of all not the same price (as I mentiond) and second ofall not really a substitute for a PS3. Even putting both of them together you still don't get to the features of the PS3. But since the PS3 costs the most, it gets slammed for being too pricey somehow

WOW! There were newer Biancas? I have the older ones but I didn't even know the newer ones existed. They are way better too! They are like ES discs with a colour kick! Too bad it's so hard to get discs like this, especially in North America

The MZ-R2 never really was a great unit, for reliability. Like some other 2nd Gen MD units (including the MDX-400) the R2's laser pickup was actually quite unreliable. It's no surprise that Sony no longer has parts for it. It's well outside of 7 years out of it's out-of-service date (last date Sony was still selling it). You might be able to find parts for it somewhere (left over parts at some repair shops) but you're looking for a needle in a haystack pretty much. Plus even if you did find parts the repair is going to be pretty expensive. For the money you'd spend fixing it you could get a brand new top-end Hi-MD portable like the RH10 or even the RH1. Though it might be nice to have a working R2, it's not much more than that. You're talking about a second gen MD unit, perhaps 13 years old or more--seriously, I'd move on.

Neither do I. I never saw how Hi-MD and UMD were related either (and I've had rather large arguments about this). They aren't related but people still like to relate them anyway You could? But the 360 is only $100 cheaper for it's respective versions, so unless the Wii is going to be less than $100 (and it isn't) then how are you going to manage buying both for the price of a PS3?

Yeah not bad at all. eBay the price is like $250 US w/shipping so this isn't bad. This seller has alright feedback only it looks like they have either really good reviews or really bad ones; but 95% positive according to Amazon. (This product is one of those listed on Amazon but not sold by Amazon, in case you were wondering what I meant.) Amazon.com does actually sell the DH10P themselves, but for $230. DH10P is tempting, especially at this price, but I think I'll pass. I'll wait till the RH1 is this price

You mean a power source... Well there you go, you said it, it's a power source, lol. Sorry, I just find it a littly annyoing when people refer to adapters as chargers. But anyway, yeah that's just me. What you need is a Sony DCC-E345. Well any universal car DC-DC adapter would most likely work, but the Sony one isn't particularly expensive (unless you're buying it retail, lol). The DCC-E345 offers the 4 main voltages Sony portables use (1.5V, 3V, 4.5V, 6V) and the two standard plug sizes that Sony uses. Can be had for less than $10 US on eBay and will work fine for you, to power your NF810. Simply select the right voltage (3V for that model I believe) and the right plug size (the smaller one); plug it into the cig. lighter and you're off to the races

LOL you're joking right? First of all neither of those solve the problem. The first ends you up in a completely different world of computers. The second ends you up in hell because Macs suck and you can't do anything with them 'cause they blow, lol. I'd probably buy two copies of Windows XP to avoid being cruelly and unusually punished by having to use Mac OS for even 1 minute. And I'm in no way joking. Apple software? Noooo sir. No thank you. Macs are garbage, IMO. As for this Windows piracy warning/nag; we can see that it's pretty easy to bypass/avoid already. Also there will probably be a crack for this, if one is or ever becomes necessary, very quickly.

What kind of crazy, cracked out multi-posting is this??? LOL. Please tell me you just hit the send button too many times or something--there are like 5 threads for this same topic!

Wow that's a useful program alright! So you can transcode DD/DTS and MPEG-Audio, etc. to formats like MP3 with that? I wonder, what does it do with multi-channel material when transcoding to a stereo format? Does it transcode only the two front channels or does it mix/combine them into a Pro-Logic/Dolby Surround compatible stereo or something else?

It is very interesting to see a well written academic paper on MD like that I haven't read it all yet but I do look forward to doing so! The only thing I found quite strange for the level of professionalism in the paper and it's formatting was the title! "MiniDisc: Successful Innovation or Just Cool Technology?" Like c'mon now, who uses the word "cool" in a paper like that? LOL...

Just purchasing an MZ-N10 off eBay recently I had my first opportunity to use one extensively, first hand. Yeah yeah don't tell me I'm like 3 years behind the times here, lol. But I thought a 10th Anniversary unit would be nice to add to my little collection Anyway, I noticed something interesting about this unit I've not seen mentioned before. The G-Protection buffer is perhaps 3 times the size of other units... This thread on the T-board is where I posted the details: http://www.audiotstation.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30701 I found the N10 buffering nearly 4 minutes of SP data in one read cycle compared to around 40 seconds (which I'd considered normal for pretty much all MD units for the longest time) that the N707 buffers. I didn't see any mention of it on the Equipment Browser and was wondering, is this a trait shared by all 2nd Gen NetMD units (Nx10) or just something exclusive to the N10 (and perhaps the N910)? I'm surprised I haven't seen this mentioned before considering it is a huge difference in buffering and a unit that is several years old--did I just miss people talking about that when the N10 was new???