Rob F1UK

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Several people have picked up RH1's here in the UK, but it depends on how "lucky" you get. I think AskDirect have had them in and sold out again. I know for a fact that some Sony Centres have them, so check there if you are desperate, but you will have to pay the full RRP of £250 if you do. My RH1 was sourced from my local (Portsmouth) Sony Centre if that is of any use to you.

The RH1 does ship with this very item, or at least the European version does. Seems to charge quicker via the mains charger than USB too.

Rich, the Sony Centre I use in Portsmouth has the EX90's in stock for the Sony RRP of £69.99, not sure if they are the SL or LP though - will find out tomorrow as I'm probably going to get a pair! Plus, your not that far away from me, Reading can only be an hour or so drive from Portsmouth (on the south coast) - worth it for a £20 saving?!

Greg, My current spec... CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3400+ 512K Newcastle 2.4GHz CPU: Cooling Thermalright SLK-948U w/ Enermax 92mm w/ AS5 Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo Platinum Memory: OCZ Platinum EL 2GB PC3200 (2-3-2-5 T1) Video: Leadtek A400 GT TDH OEM (nVidia FX6800GT 256MB) Storage 1: Seagate Barracuda V 7200.7rpm 120GB SATA Raid 0 Storage 2: Seagate Barracuda V 7200.7rpm 120GB SATA Raid 0 Optical: NEC ND-3500A Black Case: Coolermaster Praetorian Black Case Cooling: Standard Coolermaster Praetorian Case Cooling Power/PSU: Antec NeoPower 480w O/S: Windows XP Professional SP2 w/all current updates

Greg, To answer your second post - F.E.A.R is actually optimised for 2GB of RAM, and after playing it on my system with 1GB and then going to 2GB, it did make a difference. Mostly in terms of removing the slight "stutter" associated in running it at high resolutions with the quality settings up high. In other words, F.E.A.R likes 2GB of RAM for textures and the splash effects.

Which really does work, very very well. :-)

From my "investigations" it's been doing reasonably well here in the UK also. There seems to have been a lot of interest, and those places that have had the few units in stock already seem to have sold them on pretty quickly.

Portsmouth Sony Centre received 2 of these today also, and now only has the display model left!

Any more news on UK availability yet?

Indeed, that was what I was also told at my local UK Sony Centre yesterday. Nice to have it confirmed. Oh well.

Hmmm, Marc a couple of things... The Sony UK RRP is £249.99, and the release is "May". According to MDCentre.nl, this means the third week of May!

1G (2004 models) = NH1 NH900 NHF800 NH700 EH1 2G (2005 models) = DH10P RH10/M100 RH910/M10 EH930 EH50 EH70

Stop fanning the flames! As for UK Sony Centres - hahahahaha. They mostly don't really know what they are talking about. If 3G units were to arrive before the end of 2005 here, Sony would have already announced them, and as that hasn't happened we already know the answer. If and when 3G does happen, don't expect it to reach the UK until around April/May 2006 at the earliest...

I did indeed! As to the other question, I mayself would look at the MZ-E10, but also the Panasonic SJ-MJ88 (the still new SJ-MJ99 is very nice also for an MDLP player). I also quite like the older MZ-E60 and the MZ-E75 for pure old-skool appeal. As for recorders, the MZ-N10 is a good choice, but you already have a pretty good unit in the form of the N910, perhaps and R910 or R909 to compliment it? My personal 'holy grail' would a 'Go Fasta' Red MZ-R900 tho...

True oldies and goldies from all era’s? From memory let's see… Recorders Sony MZ-1 (for obvious reasons) Sony MZ-R37 Sony MZ-R50 Sharp MD-MS721/722 (first small factor recorder, but with slot-loading) MZ-R90/R91 (first small, compact factor clamshell recorder) Aiwa Am-F75/F80 (backlit LCD on main unit) Sharp MDMT831 Sony MZ-R900 (introduced MDLP) Sharp MT77/877 Sony MZ-N1 (introduced NetMD) Sharp MD-DR7 Sony MZ-NH1 (introduced H-MD) Players Sony MZ-E75 (twin jacks) Sony MZ-E900 (first MDLP player) Most of Sharp’s offerings Sony SJ-MJ88 (collapsible clamshell) Sony MZ-E10 (smallest, lightest ever player) Sony MZ-EH1 (first Hi-MD player)

Hasn't this been discussed before tho? The MP3 (or lack of) trend the EH50 and EH70 continue is nothing new, or has everyone just fogotten about the EH930?!!!!

I'd expect an announcement in either December or January (more likely), with a release date of the first units from March 2006 in Japan. Remember, this was the schedule with the 1G units, before Sony had problems that forced these dates back. However, the 2G units stuck to that plan, and made it to market from March.

Not much information exists upon it because it's a newish addition, only coming out earlier this year. If you want something more akin to the E10, I'd suggest the EH1 personally...

1. Actually, this is wrong. The Digital Amp on the RH10 is the same as the HD Amp on ther 1st Gen units. This was mentioned over at the T-Board and upon comparing the Digital Amp in my Rh10 with the HD Amp in my EH1, they are indeed the same, with the 6-presets... 2. See the other posts in this thread regarding this.

Just to point out that this is not entirely true. The RH10 actually has an aluminum lid/face...

Two that spring imediately to mind... Garden State last night, which apart from the swearing was very impressive I thought. The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy on Monday evening, a few things changed from the book granted, but I think they worked in the context of the film, and it is viciously funny from the end of the first third forward..!

How much was the RH10 in your local Sony Centre, if you don't mind me asking..?

I hate to bust this bubble, but the European version of the RH10 does not have an LCD remote, they come supplied with the non-LCD remote, as seen at AV Land. As for importing, my orange RH10 came from AudioCubes, and they mark packages as a gift, thus avoiding any import tax.

They haven't been officially released here yet, and there still seems to be no concrete news on when they will be...