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*compares specs from NH900 to RH10* bloody hell its huge! godamnit sony.....

(I have little technical knowledge) could you trick the system? make a single physical disc 2 'discs', yet sonicstage would 'know' that its just the one and treat it as such?

I love it! i 'discovered' it a few weeks ago and now use it a lot. I bookmark a handful of tracks (on a 'discography' MD - i do the singles) and put it on random within the bookmark mode. its great! and yes you could use it to cue songs and make a playlist.

this rumoured 2 disc MD - could it be a deck? just a thought

sorry - can someone explain what a sample rate is to me? I can never understand the difference between sample rate and bit rate

Let me see the remotes first. If They're any good - great! I'll get the RH10 when I go on holiday in Australia. If not... well I've been quoted £80 for a 40ELK by a Sony dearler. Are they available by themselves in Australia? I mean NOT as a spares item...

Hi, I'm doing a piece of Business and Economics coursework entitled 'how have Sony lost their competitive advantage in the portable audio market?' Part of this involves using 'specialist media', which forums are allegedly a part of. Can anyone offer some views on the question? Much appreciated.

lol i know mate im not that daft. I was refering to sony pricing. but looking at the euro pricing of the NH1 and so on, it looks like £200 for us brits.

will that be £199 or £299 for the top model then?

WOW! well, they look beautiful, but I would need to know battery lifes/dimensions before buying one. Doesn't look like the revelation we were expecting

"we'll let marketting worry about that!"

cheers! I'd read that, but was pressing record to bring up '000000' which was confusing me somewhat, I've got it now though. No massive difference from a euro NH900 to a US or Korean NH900 for me though. Do they have the same hardware?

sorry i dont understand - could someone please make this step-by-step for me? i can get into sevice mode, then bring up 113, but dont understand where to go from there (there are more than 2 digits in 113 and thats throwing me a bit) i have a euro NH900. thanks

1, Is all but confirmed 2, I read somewhere (minidiscT i think) that the top level MD unit is no longer the thinnest - that would confirm this. Sony is trying to compete with 20gig HDD units, so this would make sense (sony-sense that is) 3, Well we knew that one anyways. 4, I also read somewhere that 5gig discs had been developed by sharp - entirely possible. Also, I read that as the DISC not being backword compatible. Like the 1gig discs at the moment. just my 2 peneth worth

I tend to use my remote exclusively, to the point where the player itself looks almost unfamiliar to me!

I agree that MD1 is the original media, but the reformatted discs have 303MB, whereas the new 1gb discs have...well.... 1 gig. Maybe the other two are the other way round?

does anyone care? ATRAC sounds a LOT better

sound, two group keys, P-mode

anyone tried to use the keys on a remote yet?

why are NH1s which are sold everywhere 5mW?

thats volume though, am i right in thinking if that was increased all we would get is steadily worse sound quality?

portable CD players from Sony all do

phew, great. Still, what are those circular players? They look too small to be CD to me. And that Prototype Hi-MD looks incredibly ugly

OMG! Sony are 'set to release a new type of walkman' - correct? those circular ones? they must be UMD players! the UMD is used in the upcoming PSP and apparently stores audio in ATRAC3+ what does this mean for Hi-MD??

The UMD Drive in the forthcoming PSP is read-only, but Sony say it will play music as well as video (ATRAC3+....yay..... ) any idea if a recorder will be released? perhaps for the PC?