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.

I ran into a similiar situation where the pc would recognize the device (it's in device manager) but would not get assigned a drive letter nor show up in Sonicstage. For some reason I had a network drive I: mapped that it wanted to use. Disconnecting the I: network drive then enabled the HiMD I: drive to appear. Not sure why it didn't just go to the next drive letter, though.

Not sure where you're located, but I just got one from here. http://www.minidiscaccess.com/item.html?PRID=1534783 It looks better in person than in pictures I think.

If you get a Hi-MD player you will be able to erase the disk. The JE480 can't format the disc and since the tracks are protected it can't delete the tracks directly either. I had the same issue with my JE480 as well. There were several NetMD discs I made in the past and that deck can't erase them. Ironically, my older JE320 deck could erase them. A NetMD/Hi-MD device can erase the whole disk through SonicStage. You can get this software just by downloading Connect from Sony, it's free.

I imagine it would be the same for Sony or Creative if they were controlling the market. The giant always gets the publicity.

Yeah, that menu is just the playmode menu so something's wrong with your unit. You should be able to get into the other menus when the recorder is stopped. You may not be able to change to PCM while the recording is activated (even though paused).

That's what'll happen when a company can't make up it's mind on a decent design. Look at all the HDD players they've released in the last year, night and day differences in design. I also think these newest players are the least attractive of the Sony players I've seen. Oh, and there's a huge difference between shiny rounded white and dull gray/beige. Of course, comparing computer cases and small electronics is pretty silly to begin with.

The only single din unit I've seen that does md/cd/cd-r/w is this one.