Dimitri

If only we could RIP to 352 and maintain gapless playback.

Doubt it. I'm sure ipod's recording capabilities are limited to live recording only.

Got it yesterday. Haven't had much time to play with it yet, or take any pics. Hopefully tomorrow I will.

Yes I ordered the silver one since I do not have any silver units at the moment and everyone else seems to have the black one. I should get it tomorrow hopefully. Left Chicago customs this morning.

Order Date: Tuesday 04 October, 2005 STATUS: Shipped 10/7/2005

So just the NH1/3? Not the EH1?

The terms lossy/lossless are only used to describe compressed codecs.

Wrong. I have around 400 cds on my Vaio pocket and listen to whole albums all the time. Maybe flash players are what you're talking about.

You should be able to force any bitrate for transfer in the settings, instead of using the 'as-is' option.

No 'special' program as there are alternatives. DRM is only on iTunes music store files, not ripped ones. Sony at least finally caught on with SS3.2.

Sure, Sony did a poor marketing job but you're dreaming if you think any amount of marketing would've put them in the top spot with MD. It's just not what the typical consumer wants. People don't care about removable media, they prefer convenience. People don't want to waste time with transcoding or piss poor slow downloads, they want their music now. The MD technology has its niche and portable jukebox is not it and never could be. NetMD and HiMD were just Sony's lame attempt at trying to make MD be a jukebox to be more competitive. It breathed some life into it, but just prolonged the inevitable. Marketing goes hand in hand with other things. It alone cannot save a doomed product. The ipod became #1 because the marketing came along with a sleek product with a great interface, great integration, and all this dropped at the perfect time, when mp3 was becoming very popular.

The webcast was a bit vague. They talked about technologies, and of course MD wasn't mentioned, so I too would guess the future's bleak.

If the announcement is Friday, then expect bad news.

The RH10 is not made out of plastic, it just has a plastic coating for the mirror finish. The plastic is covering metal.

Apple's marketing was great, and I'm sure a big reason it got so popular so fast. But, I still think there's more components than just marketing involved. The product itself has to deliver what consumers are looking for. By the time hdd players got popular, the concept of MD was not very practical to be comparing to jukeboxes. I don't know if good Sony marketing would've changed things that much to the point where they get most of the market. It's still apples and oranges, and removable and recordable media is not what the typical consumer was looking for then. Apple hit the market at the prime time, right when the concept of mp3 jukeboxes was starting to become a popular concept.