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  1. There are only advantages to getting one unless you consider price a disadvantage. I imported mine from Japan. It is worth ever penny. Why consider the Japanese model? The US model doesn't come with a color-matching, backlit LCD remote. The US model doesn't come with the higher capacity gumstick battery. The US model doesn't have the universal charger. The US model doesn't come with a charging stand. The Japanese model does come with a charging stand. The US model doesn't give you the choice of colors. The US model doesn't support Chinese and Japanese characters on the OLED, so if you have any imports, your Asian characters for title and track info will read as ??? Why consider the US model? The inclusion of all of the extras with the Japanese model makes it more expensive. Unless you care about the features mentioned above, you would be happy with a US model, but I personally wanted everything the Japanese model had to offer.
  2. Hey guys, I want to buy an MZ-RH10, BUT I really wanted to make sure it had Chinese/Japanese character support. I know the JE version that is for sale on Audiocubes has support for Kanji characters, BUT that version is $335 + $35 shipping. Can someone with the US model please tell me if their unit supports Asian characters? I'd really hope that I can buy the US model for $279. It would really suck to buy one of these US units and pop in my import discs and not be able to see the track and disc info. Help, just.... help.
  3. Also, let's not forget that Iriver was giving us optical in and optical out with surround sound support. Mine was great until it died on me. Anyway, I also wanted to say that I disagree with the opinions that Sony should be marketing the MD units as recorders first. There isn't as big a demand for a recorder as there is a demand for a player with recording capabilities. What sells Ipods? Not recording, that's for certain. I believe that marketing and forcing the marriage between MD and ATRAC really hurt their progress. MD is media, first and foremost. It is more cost effective and covenient than any other removable media that I'm aware of. They needed to stop forcing people to use proprietary codecs with MD. In my opinion, they should have supported drag and drop and most of the popular music formats like Iriver. MD media should have been able to replace big, cumbersome, and fragile CDs. It should be treated like the media it is. I guess time will tell how well MD will do in the near future. This should be interesting. One thing that concerns me is that you are bombarded with Ipod commercials but never see anything about an MD player/recorder.
  4. 1. Will a disc written with MP3s on one unit play on another unit of the same generation? #1 Explained: I was concerned that my discs may have DRM that prevents them from playing on another newer player. This would be bad if you made a lot of discs and broke your player. 2. Can a minidisc with MP3s on it that has been written for playback also be used for archiving purposes? #2 Explained: I'd like to use my MDs to archive my MP3s instead of CDs. Being able to PLAYMP3s on a minidisc AND copy them back off of the discs would be helpful. Why is this a benefit? I would hope that we wont have to save one MP3 to a different MD as data, or a CD or hard disc to archive them. It would make us use twice as many MDs to keep the same music and I would have to have to continue using CDs or hard discs to save my music archive. It isn't the end of the world, but it makes using the media much more attractive, and I feel that MD media acceptance will go a long way to help MD gain greater footing in the market. The fewer gotchas to using the media that customers have to deal with, the better it looks. Users want to treat MDs like CDs in terms of the freedom of writing and extracting their data back off of them. Thanks
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