Just read the email from kurisu and decided to post. Have been visiting this forum actively but not posting only. I just accquired a RH10 a few months ago from japan. Before that I was hesitating whether to get a ipod mini, iriver H10 or the RH10 hi md player. After going thru all the research and considering my needs, I chose the RH10. Any regrets? Well, there is no perfect thing in this world, especially electronic gadjets. The only let back for me is the crippled playback of mp3. I have tonnes of mp3 from my friends, and it took me sometime to convert all of them into high bitrate atrac format. About discontinuation of the md players, im against it. I'm a malaysian but currently studying overseas, in my country, there is only a very small population using md player. Everybody knows that the RH10 is manufactured only in malaysia but do u all know that we can't get it in local sony stores? That's seriously crap. I agree with the others, sony should do some promotion on md players. Then maybe ppl will start paying attention to it rather than getting the usual crappy mp3 players