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You mean Shigatsu-Baka Wire Service Although I speak Japanese (but I´m actually from Germany and also living in Germany right know) I didn´t pay attention to that at all! Yes Shigatsu-Baka indeed can be translated as April-Fool. Arrrrgh, how dumb of me

Just 5 minutes before I went to minidisc.org I thought about today being April 1st and that nobody has fooled me yet. But when reading the news, I completely forgot about it, it seemed to realistic in the first moment.

AHHH, you got me! I was fooled! But what´s a little frightening, is that this article maybe isn´t too far from reality. Who knows how long Sony will be supporting MD!?

It would be so nice if Sony made a car unit, but I don´t have a car But I would probably buy a home deck if it was of good quality, could connect to a PC and wouldn´t be 2000 Dollars!

Interesting, a lot of people here seem to have various backgrounds, I would´ve expectet more people with a single-ethnical background. About me, my mother is from Manitoba Canada and came to Germany to study when she was young. There she met my father who is German. I was born and grew up in Germany. I came to Japan to live here over a year ago, but I am going back to Germany in one month! I´ll miss the opportunities to shop MD equipment when I go back!

You should just be sure to use the word "minidiscs" or "minidisc blanks"! Tapes are those things with the tape in it...

Well I´m not quite sure, the speakers can handle 70W max, the manual states two things for the amp: 14W+14W and 26W+26W. Does this sound realistic? Since it´s in Japanese I´m not sure which one you are looking for. I think I can´t judge if the system sounds good for your ears (and I don´t listen to hip hop), you would have to hear for yourself. You can defineteley turn the bass up fairly well if you combine the 2-Step S. Bass and the normal Bass and Treble. For a small room it´ll sure be enough it think. The input on the back is just a regular line in. And yes, it has an optical input. Yes, the amp is built in. The price will very much depend on how and where you are going to get this system. In Japan at least it is sold for less than the ¥88,000 ($800) official retail price.

Thanks for your advice, today I found the solution for my problem. When I installed SS 3.3 earlier Spybot had denied the registry changes that SS applies (some annoying warnings from Spybot popped up, but I didn´t pay attention to them). So the possibilty to register with Gracenote was disabled through Spybot during the installation. So I deinstalled Spybot, installed SS3.3 again and it worked Well Sonicstage isn´t such a bad program after all.....when it works!

I like those big buttons too! Is there also a group button on the unit? The specs sound exactly the same as the EH1, or am I wrong? The EH1 seems to be a little thinner, but then the EH70 has the bigger buttons which seem to be very easy to use.

And the EH1 and NH1 both use Li-ion batteries, right? My digital camera also uses a Li-ion and can show me the exact ramaining minutes for battery life, so I assume that this function only works with Li-ions. But I can´t tell which units exactly have this feature!

I don´t think that depends on the remote, it depends on the battery. With Ni-MH batteries the remaining playback time won´t show up in any remote, with Li-ion batteries it will show up on the RM-MC40ELK as well as on the 35ELK when they are connected to my EH1. I believe that´s the same for all models from the first gen.

Well your computer or your HD can of course be robbed in the same way, so there´s no advantage here. I think a computer would even be much more attractive to the robber. When he´d see the MDs he ´d have no clue what they´re good for and leave them where they are! Same thing with MD portables! Nobody wants to rob a MD-Player, all they want is iPods. Leaving the whole backup thing aside, MDs are simply more durable because of their construction compared to CDs or HDs. Of course you can always put a MD in your toaster, flush them down the toilet etc. but we are talking about normal usage. Now that hurts

That wasn´t my argument! Actually I intended to say that you are in advantage with a HD player, because you have lot´s more music in less space. For music listening only (not recording), I think it just depends on if you like those little durable discs more than just a "virtual" music file. And the longer you use them, the more they even get a history. I still have my first ever recorded MD for example, which I remember very well, recorded with my very first MD recorder. Still plays perfect of course But indeed the first post was only asking about Sound Quality and the difference between a Sony Hi-MD player and all other MP3 Players. So if you think comparing ALL MP3 Players to a Sony Hi-MD player might be impossible, then just post your individual opinion or experience, but don´t expect that to be accepted as a common law by others.

So why do you post in these threads then? Just to tell us you don´t like these threads? And what other advantages except capacity do you think do the Flash/HDD players have over Hi-MD? So if someone doesn´t feel, he has to carry his whole music collection around with him all the time and doesn´t care about being "limited" to 300MB or 1 GB, I think Hi-MD can be a real alternative!

Thanks for your replies so far. The Connect shop does work. I disabled my firewall once and tried to register again, but still the same problem. I click Yes, but nothing happens at all. I don´t think a reinstall will solve the problem, but I´ll try that too. I´m connected to the Internet permanently through a LAN. I just plug the cable in my laptop, and it is connected to the internet. Anybody have a clue if the problem could be there?