pata2001

Then they'll ask for the disc. Apart from iPods, you don't seem to understand the problem with the proposed legislation.

I already said that the audio quality improvements probably more for cell calls, not necessarily the iPod part. You're the one who started bashing others: Oh well.

Who's skimming what? I was listening to the WWDC keynote as it was happening mind you. So now it becomes an argument about Steve's keynote slide, which as bland has pointed out, Vodafone refers to Australia, Italy, New Zealand, and Portugal. Even if you assume that the slide refers to Vodafone Japan, bland already pointed out that Vodafone has been acquired by Softbank. So considering the slide is shown in 2008, where Vodafone Japan is already bought by Softbank, the presence of Vodafone logo would refer to those countries mentioned above, not Japan. That's like saying T-Mobile US will get the iPhone too just because T-Mobile's logo is on the slide. Even bloggers already know that Softbank is the exclusive provider for Japan before WWDC. Not news at all.

The announcement for Japan is that it will be exclusive to SoftBank. iPod Touch doesn't have cellular wireless, only wifi. Plus you have to pay to get the new firmware.

You cannot. Period. Nothing will allow you to play AtracCD on your PC. Sony designed AtracCD that way.

AT&T rate plans for the iPhone 3G will be even more expensive than the previous iPhone, and they will force you to sign a contract and activate the phone in-store if you want to buy it. What a load of crap. I hope AT&T will screw so many customers (they are already doing a very good job at that) that people will correlate the iPhone with AT&T's poor service, and then hopefully Apple decide to ditch AT&T.

AtracCD cannot be played on a PC. Period. It can only be played on AtracCD players.

As long as Apple selling it locked to a provider, it will never fly in Asia, where pretty much all phones from Nokia, SE, HTC, etc are being sold unlocked, even under a contract. I'm not paying for a locked phone and being forced into an expensive contract at the same time. I believe the audio quality Jobs talking about might refer to the call quality of cell calls, not the audio quality of the iPod. There were complaints about the speaker of the previous iPhone being not loud enough.

Oh really? The largest iPod is 160GB. Even when using HiMD, that would be roughly 160 discs. Let's assume that's true, you'll need a lot of SD cards, unless you have a lot of money to buy 8GB SDHC cards. Not pratical, plus it's very hard to label/identify SD cards.

Try pressing the stop button while connected. The Japanese RH1 comes with a world voltage USB to AC adaptor.

1. Why are you still using SS3.4? 2. Did you disable copy protection when you're ripping to Atrac? If not, say bye-bye and re-rip those tracks. 3. Did you correctly point Sonicstage to the right locations of the tracks? 4. How did you restore your library? Did you use the backup tool? I thought you're using MD. So why bother since you have all the music in your MDs anyway. Because he got Vista for free. Besides, he doesn't have XP anyway, at least not legally.

Wow, a common sense response from one of the best MD fans. You're absolutely right. Liking MD is 1 thing, but reality is reality, even in Japan. As for retro gaming, nothing beats the Super Genintari.

Dunno about Japan specifically, but in Asia, where MD used to be popular too, most people now are either using cheapo tiny flash players or their cellphones for their portable music player. Today's cellphones can play music pretty well and most of them has expandable memory slot.

I went to a local Fry's and I can find Beta tapes, 5.25" floppy disks, cassette tapes, etc, but no MD nor HiMD. Heck, I can still find Zip disks in many electronics/office supply stores. Try finding a blank MD/HiMD at stores other than Sonystyle. Sony has other priorities. They have blu-ray for high capacity media, and memory stick. Beta tapes and cassette tapes are still made because they have much more userbase than MD. As for using MD/HiMD for archiving, what's the point in using a media that you cannot find a reader to use it in the future?

I can't speak of the knock offs, but on the original Sony, the gray ones (with the same orange end as the black ones) are NH-10WM. They have less capacity than the black ones (thus less battery life), but it's compatible.

Why not the RH1? Are you afraid of the results? Everybody knows that the 2nd gen units has crippled MP3 playback. The best way to do ABX is to decode everything to WAV. That way there will be no arguments against the decoding method of certain codecs.

Yay for MIDI. It's even more fun seeing somebody doing this on a PC with a keyboard. Good talent, but I've seen so many kids doing it so I guess I'm not that amazed.

Never mind, looks like an old post.

Simple, Sonicstage does NOT have the SP codec. Sonicstage cannot handle SP, period. It can only do Atrac3 and Atrac3+. When transferring fake-SP to a NetMD, Sonicstage spit out LP2 and the NetMD unit is the one that does the SP encoding. The RH1 doesn't cheat, the limitations is on Sonicstage. Remember, Sony has Sony Music. Why do people always forget about this?

With millions of iPods being produced, it's a no brainer that some lemons will be out there. At least iPod support can be obtained locally. If my imported Sony MD unit breaks, it would be much harder to get support. 1 iPod goes bad, suddenly Apple is antichrist? Sony units go bad, it's an exception? Not saying Apple is perfect (thank goodness for Costco's return policy ), but Sony, Microsoft, any big company is the same. Nobody ever say Apple products are 100% reliable. There are users that have bricked PS3s, Red ring of death XBOX360s, overheating Macbooks, etc. I bought an MZ-NE410 from radioshack and it doesn't work (won't even spin the MD) out of the box (blister pack). So by the logic here, then Sony is antichrist too. 1 electronic company that I'm biased as being more reliable is Sharp. My family have TVs from Sharp and Sony, and the Sonys broke sooner while the oldest Sharp only broke after my parents replaced the Sony twice (with newer models).

I know that. It's the next step, but at $600, that is not close enough for consumer market. Plus Sony markets it for pro/broadcasters only, not something you would find at your local Bestbuy. My point is flash memory is the next step for removable media. Analog line-in recording is already doable on some Sony Network Walkman models.

Since when iPods being advertised as a recorder? They are called Digital Audio Player for a reason. Nobody ever claim iPods can do a better recording than MD, since it's not a recorder. [sarcasm]Yeah, my DVD writer is BETTER than your CD player, since your CD player cannot burn DVDs![/sarcasm]. Way to go for defending MD against nothing. A more fair comparison would be to compare MD with Sony Network walkmen that can do line-in recording, and compare the recording quality. MD is obselete as a media. 1. Slow read/write speed. 2. Propietary 3. Low capacity for the physical size. All we need is somebody to create a high quality consumer-grade (not pro-thousand of dollars price range) portable recorder using flash memory like SD cards. Sony could've simply done this, making a portable recorder with the same internals as the RH1 but utilizing memory stick as the media. Once they do, that's it for MD.

How did you record the disc? The only way to upload old legacy recordings is via the RH1. If the tracks are from NetMD, you cannot upload them other than doing realtime recording back. There are already plenty of alternatives available in the past 3 years.

HiMD is sub USB1.1 speed, so that "slow" speed is expected. Nothing much you can do about it.

Obviously faulty unit. Return it. That unit is pretty old now, even it's "new."