Eryn Vorn

Mr. and Mrs. Smith. From one to ten, eight :-)

Congratulations for the Xmas bonus. Stick to the old PC and 1st gen (or 2nd gen) HiMD. Robust, reliable and removable MD. MiniDisk : one name, one legend. -

Hi board, In a front page article in yesterday's Japan Times and other newspapers, Kyodo news reported that a government panel decided against expanding the range of products subject to royalty payments on digital recording devices to includes iPods and other new gadgets that use flash memory and hard disks. The surcharge per MD recorder is 400 yen (4$) and per minidisk 4 yen. The decision is surprising as existing taxes/surchages are upholded while problems with them are recognized. The total levy amounted to 2.3 billion yen (20 million USD) for FY03. <a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20051202a2.htm">The article on JT website</a> Kudos for the great job by admins and moderators.

Thank you very much for the insight.

Hey, hi board, Looks like the tinyhttp.exe is a very heavy memory user (120MB to 300MB). Has anyone info on this .exe? Can one run connect without this program? Is this another piece of spyware/rootkit/sonyware? This board is really great. Go on ...

This is wishfull thinking at best. MD is obviously still the most popular media in Japan. And the new HD products Sony are pushing are also very fashionable (especially the HD Oled based face). For iTunes sales, as no data are provided, this is propaganda/marketing.

My low cost configuration: Toshiba laptop, Window XP SP1 0.4GHz Pentium II, 192MB Ram 8GB hard drive - 2 GB free ;-) It has been a pain to run SS2.x on SP1. Upgrade to SS3.0 was OK. Have SS3.3 installed this weekend from Sony website. Thanks MDCF for the link. No problems with it! It seems to be much faster than 3.0 for encoding and transfering MP3 (hour long radio shows (strangely called Podcast)) onto my HiMD units.

My favorite hi-md player is the MZ-NH900. It is robust and doesnt collect finger prints as my MZ-RH10 and my iPods. The three line screen on the extension is very easy to read with back light at night.

Dont you find it strange that antivirus firms NEVER find out this rootkit and didnt react upon discovery... My guess is that it was OK for Sony to open a back orifice on each of their customer PC. Isn't there any DRM management in SS? Is this DRM stuff fully documented? No, of course... Sony doesn't give a shit about its customers.

Latest "off the hook" available here: http://www.2600.com/offthehook/2005/1105.html

Who knows ??? Sony installed rootkits on more than 500000 PCs. And infringed copyright for software... http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/80271/sonys-dr...fringement.html May be SonicStage is bloodily infected with another rootkit but antivirus firms never told us... Most probably yes....

What about the GranTourismo series or ICO? Sony's games rock. Eryn.

This doesn't work with Firefox as IE5.5+ is SONY's mandatory browser. LOL.

Isn't this in the FAQ already? I use it after downloading a full set of mp3. I ran this software overnight to create very slowly the required format for HiMD transfer. Sonyc Stage can't do it properly so far, but maybe in version 3.0, it will be easier ... Bad software kills good/excellent/brilliant hardware. Eryn.

Here in Tokyo, after discount, at a large retailer west of Shinjuku station, 1GB discs are avalaible at 625 yen, i.e. US$5.95, for a 105 yen/USD fx. I didn't check yet around Akihabara. Eryn.