MichaelBeardy

Really gald you got your MZ-RH1 fixed. They really are a fabulous bit of kit. Get some discs compiled and enjoy the wonderful sound quality. I bought 5 HiMD discs off ebay from one of the Hong-Kong sellers for about

Thanks for the replies. I managed to sort it - the cause was very simple, as was the solution. I'll post it up here in case anyone else finds it useful. You know the blue, self-adhesive "wrapper" that Sony puts on the battery? Well, the edge of where it wraps around the side of the battery was catching on a sharp edge of a plastic moulding near the front on the inside of the battery compartment. Using the tip of a very small watchmakers scredriver, I was able to gently push the battery towards the rear of the machine (not back into the battery housing) to disengage the wrapper from this plastic edge, and then the battery slid out like a charm. I rubbed down the wrapper with a fingernail to make it stick well to the battery, and I used a very fine tipped scalpel to shave away the sharp edge on the inside of the battery compartment (it's right at the entrance of the compartment, on the "front of the machine" side of the battery slot - hard to describe but easy to see when the battery is out). I only had to shave away a TINY amount of plastic - no need to go over the top. And now my batteries slide in and out like a charm! Sorted.

Thanks for the replies. Both units are pretty new, bought new online from (2 different) legit Sony dealers, and the batteries are the original, Sony ones that came in the box with the recorder. It does seem like this may be a fairly common issue, and if I send the units back to the dealers, who's to say that a replacement will be any better? I have a feeling I might get a better result by sending back to Sony UK for repair under guarantee - it probably won't be the first time they've had to correct this issue. It would be interesting to see just how widespread this issue seems to be though, since both Azureal and slugbahr have encountered it. I wonder just how many MZ-RH1 owners on this forum have also had this same issue with theirs?

Hi, I'm hoping someone here can help me - I can't get the battery out of either of my new-ish MZ-RH1's. I open the door and the battery springs forward a millimetre or two and then stops. I've tried pulling it out with sticky tape, but it won't move any further. It's not like it's wedged - I've had that happen with NiMH gumstick batteries which have swollen in the past. This is more like a hard, mechanical stop - as if there's some additional catch holding it in that I need to release. Am I missing something here? Do I need to do something more than just open the battery door to get the battery out? I've had a look in the manual and I can't see anything (unless I've missed it). Please, if you've got an RH1 can you have a look and see how the battery comes out? Thanks!

Thanks - and you know, I just can't tell you folks how much it makes me grin to know how much passsion and commitment there still is amongst users for the whole MD format (I type whilst listening to a Sony MDS-JE520 that a friend gave me because he no longer used it...).

Forgive me, I'm a bit of a newb at this - though I've been into MD and HiMD for years, and I used to post on the MDCF some while back... I'm a bit unclear what is required here... is it a download of the driver that j-p posted the link to, and/or a rewrite of the inf file... and is that just a case of copying and pasting the whole of the revised text or just certain bits of it? A quick step-by step guide would be really useful here for those of us who aren't quite so confident in chopping about in their program files. Either that, or I'll have to hope that Arvin writes it into a new version of the Ultimate SS download sometime soon. I've got quite a lot of legacy MD recordings I'd love to get onto my Win7 x64 installation of SS without having to go around the current loop of loading them onto SS on my netbook (XP x32) and then back onto HiMD and from there onto SS on my Win7 machine. You know it's so good to know that there are still others out there across the globe who still appreciate the subtle charms of MD and HiMD. :-)