himd_anxiety

Someone help me please, especially if I'm wrong. This is the email I sent the ebay seller: I received my item today, but discovered a very disappointing problem. This unit is not charging at all. It starts to charge, says the correct menu language "-- min Charging," switches to "00 min Charging," and finally shuts off. And the unit will not function unless plugged in, so either, it's the battery or the unit. One is defective. It should start out at 60 minutes and reduce as it charges, not simply go to zero and shut off unless it is fully charged. If the battery really is fully charged, then the unit is seriously defective.

When the unit is charging, the menu says this "-- min Charging." Does that require that I set the minutes in order that it charge? I try to do that, but it doesn't work. The unit basically charges for a minute, then stops. Does this mean I got a bum battery? I'm told the battery should be in fine condition, and the unit is almost impeccable. Of course, it won't play unless docked with the adaptor.

The cost wasn't much different, to the best of my knowledge.

Dear, for $229 a remote, you should be able to turn the NH700 into a car if you wanted.

DITTO @ BOGUS?! LOL! I was like, "Is this for real?" That price is an utter joke. For that price, it better be a 6 Gig ATRAC player that small, in that shape, and with the FM/AM tuner. Did I mention the ability to record and a long battery life? lol

Touche, Jaylen. And it gets clearer. lol It's funny as hell to me, because I have a spare remote of just that type. I should sell it. Who would buy the NH700 and then buy a remote that cost just as much? SMH.

I can't believe Sony did something this asinine. They should have just packaged them all with the radio remotes. They look exactly the same anyway.

I recently read a post in which someone claimed to buy a the FM radio remote to work with the NH700, but I was under the impression that the remote input on that unit was the standard Sony one and that it came with a regular remote. If the radio remote fits with the NH700, then what differentiates it from the NHF800? It seems utterly pointless for Sony to have had both. Is this actually true?

LOL! See, yoy understand. I just had to have it. I guess I'm a full-fledged member of MD-holics anonymous now. You know what I honestly cannot wait for now? To do line recording from MDs that have recordings I took from DVDs and the like. I will just do that and then upload them to the computer. Then I will put them on HD5. I didn't want to have to play the DVDs again and deal with pausing and editing to cut off where different songs started. No thanks.

-The restoration of the radio remote -Add a backlight to the radio remote instead of making it appear to have one in ads -Non-real time, high-speed Line In to Line Out recording from tape recorders (possible?) -2-3 Gigabyte disks -Jog Dial on unit -Back light on unit sceen -Large, color 5-line display -Digital Amplifiers on all players -Line out on all players -Full metal bodies on at least two players -*DIRECT* AA support for all units. -No whack cameras

Shaking my head @ me. I waited till the last minute and got the NH1 ANYWAY. So, now I have a nice 40K remote to sell for $72.00 USD everything included if anyone is interested. Believe it or not, that makes it cheaper than any you will find on Ebay after everything totals up.

The final story: I am getting the NH900 and have ordered the remote that accompanies the NH1 separately. The bidding war on the NH1 intensified feverishly, and I was unwilling to pay such a steep price. For less than $100 more, I could have actually had an RH1 from MiniDisc Canada. So, my Hi-MD units will be limited, for now, to the NHF800 and NH900. (I found the DH10P for $195. It actually IS starting to look tempting, but at a max battery life of 14 hrs? Jeesh. Take one picture, and that thing is down for the count, I suppose.) Question: Does anyone know the exact model number of the NH900 battery? I want to order extras now.

And the winner for best, most succinct summary of the year is... LOL! Sony developers chime in: "Yeah, we know. We know." First, I'd like to come right out and say the RH1 does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL to attract new MD users. (Unless any of us are so impossibly idealistic that we think USB 2.0 or the avant garde concept of playing MP3s in good sound quality will bring them in.) But, yes, that's why I cannot understand why the legacy recordists are so dogmatic in assailing anyone who would dare violate the sacred name of the RH1. If you were never a legacy recordist in earnest, what you receive is essentially a Hi-MD recorder with a digital amplifier, but which restricts the overwhelming preponderance of playback features to the remote. As there are Hi-MD units that do everything else considerable that the RH1 does, have jog dials, back-lit remotes or larger displays, are easier to use for playback, and can record very comfortably in high quality; RH1 is no cause celebre. I hesitate to think that there could ever be a player so impeccable that diversity of opinion on its worth had to be impossible. In sum, legacy recordists, deprived so sadly until now, are finally being treated with respect and cannot cope with the excitement. lol j/k...somewhat Hmmmm.... I tend to think most Hi-MD users are those who loved the format and upgraded. I suppose, though, that the majority of people who only bought 600D probably were neophytes. That unit really was aimed at entry-level users and was the only one truly widely available in the United States. It was available at all major retailers around Christmastime. I can't even see what it does for me, which is why I didn't choose it when I decided I needed to stock up on working players. Sony is clearly losing faith in Hi-MD, and if they lose more than we can afford, I want to have working units for a LONG time. Just because Sony may decide it is finished with the format in the proper capacity, doesn't mean I will. I undertand that the RH1 supposedly sounds gorgeous, but I'd really rather have the functionality of a jog dial and superior sound simultaneously. Function is important to me, too. It's not all sound. Function, overall convenience, and sound quality are my top concerns, in that order. I won't die w/o USB 2.0 support. It's not as though I don't have other means of listening to music while the darn thing downloads to a disc. Actually, I agree. It is. NetMD was more popular, clearly. When I show people a Hi-MD player, they look at it, recall those, and talk about how they remember them. Many have, at some point, owned at least one or knows someone who did. When I speak of Hi-MD, everybody is mystified. People don't realize that the discs now potentially hold 45 albums versus 5. Back when NetMD reigned, MP3 players were still more obscure and were tepidly promoted. 5 CDs on such a small disc was more attractive to the average joe trying to mobilize a music collection. With widely-promoted 60 Gigabyte players housing 15,000 MP3s, that just isn't so anymore. And let's face it: not everyone needs a recording device. The low-quality voice recorders and tape recorders are actually completely satisfactory for most. Plus, their usability outpaces MD in much the same way Ipod's does.

Yes, many of us are embittered MD fanatics. lol Most of the problems with Ipod stem from the battery or the fragile casing, which got worse with the most recent generations. Beyond that, the fragility of the Nano screen drew a wealth of complaints. The hard-drive issue is less a problem. I own an HD5 and have used it on the treadmill quite a few times. I always keep it in some sort of case, but it has taken approximately ten hard thuds and works flawlessly. Looks flawless as well. The greatest strength of MD, aside from recording and the unusually copious sound presets and customizability, is that breaking the player doesn't equate to ages spent downloading music back to a player. I have somewhere around 7,000 songs on Hi-MD 1 Gigabyte disks and around 6,000 on my HD5. God knows I would dread adding all 6,000 back on it, especially with SonicStage requiring that I press the button EACH time for every album I want to add to the thing. The ability to start up right where one left off makes me much more avid to replace or update my player. If Sony, for example, releases another HD product with no video capability, color screen, or no great expansion in capacity, I would *NOT* consider replacing my HD5 at all.

Do the NH-1 and NH900 use the same battery? I need to know. I want some extras, but the listings I see advertise the NH1 but not the NH900.

Sears is selling 5 PK regular MDs for $8.99. Huh? Give me a break. That's no sale.

I know what you mean. That's what I hate about my HD5. Yes, I said HD5. The supposed 40 hours of playback were lost on my player. Either the battery came severely defective, or Sony plainly lied. It probably does approximately half that. I love that my NHF800 can take AA batteries. I know I will have to buy extra batteries for my upcoming NH900 and/or NH1. It's beautiful when you can go somewhere listening to a device on AA, switch to recording, and then simply load a fresh AA battery to listen to music again. I honestly have no idea what the AA add-on catridge for the NH900 looks like. Just how big is it? I hope it's quite small, not much larger than the battery itself. I can see how annoying using a cartridge with the RH10 and RH910 could be. Those units are THICK.

Rich, I admire that you took the time to catalogue a collection of this magnitude. I am just not so ambitious. I do have electronica, but you probably have almost all of it anyway.

I agree about the scroll wheel on the unit. It's too bad Sony wasn't generous enough to provide us with a unit convenient enough to have a scroll wheel actually on it and a large, luminescent screen for use in the dark. You have to choose one, the other, neither, or both only on a remote.

Ok, I bought the NH-900. lol I'll tell you what I decide to do with either of them very soon, because I believe I will soon have both in my possession. The NH1 isn't coming as originally packaged anyway, and I know how the 900 is maneuvered because I have the 800. So, I'll maneuver the NH1, compare, and decide on that. Thanks for all your help. I know I probably seem daftly indecisive, but that's because I am. :-)

I could see myself winning the NH-1, buying the NH900, wanting to keep the NH1 remote, selling neither unit, and then paying it all off. LOL! I hope I have the strength to sell off the NH1, because I do believe I'll win.

I'm sorry, moderators, if I've misplaced this thread. I actually thought I was doing it right this time. I know you had to move another I made before. Rich, your post, although VERY informative, caused more confusion. LOL! I'm thankful for it, though, because I have a more accurate view now. I assumed NH1 would be more rugged. I actually thought it would be heavier, too. lol I am SO CLOSE! I thought the NH1 remote had something similar to a jog dial on the side. That roundish button that looks sort of like the old volume adjusters on the cassette walkman? Plus, I thought I might also use that remote for my HD5, since the 40 ELK won't show the artist/album info on the HD5. I already have that remote. It's great for changing vol. and switching between sound presets, but I can't go album to album or view that info on the remote. If I'm mistaken, then NH900 seems the way to go. Another snag is that I have already bid on an NH1 and cannot retract the bid. I can buy the NH900 outright and sell the NH1 if I win, which I may do. More indulgently, I may try both on for size and then decide, but that would diminish the price of either I wanted to sell.

Thanks, your post was very helpful. LOL @ the last line, though. I hate the battery life on DH10P, plus I'd really rather use my regular digicam. I don't even think the DH10P even does line-in recording. Bad enough it doesn't do mic recording. I probably will do just what you said with the NH900, though.

There were some final questions I had. Which is better for recording a concert? Unidirectional or omnidirectional? At first thought, you'd say I only want what comes off the stage. But the speakers will likely not just be on the stage. Some will be on the sides, I am sure. This is an open-air event in a park. Do you recommend using that loud music selector on the units? Does it actually record live music better? If I concealed the tip of the mic under a polo, do you think it would cause too much interference? Should I set the sensitivity on low or high? Never recorded a concert before, but this one means a lot to me. Thanks. Oh...what would be a quality, affordable unidirectional mic? I have a superb omnidirectional one and a very good one.

I am aware some of you pretend buying any first-generation Hi-MD unit is just uncivilized, but I am willing to be vulgar enough to assume this responsibility. Previously, I have owned the MZ-NH600D, which was the ultimate castrated Hi-MD player. I sold that off in approximately a month and bought the MZ-NHF800, my current unit. I am keeping this unit because I love it, but want something sturdier. It is made of plastic, so it damages more easily than I'd prefer. Works pristinely, however. With MD being systematically phased out, I want to acquire several working units over a period of time and will cease selling them off. I will soon be getting an NH-1, which is made of magnesium, or an NH-900. That's made of aluminum and plastic. I don't want anything from the second or third generation, as I've resolved I will continue to use Hi-MD for playback and not just to record. Therefore, I relish my jog dial (or superior remote with the NH-1. Now, I will be recording because I am a journalist. Which of these units sounds better? Does the magnesium make the NH-1 too heavy? How heavy is it? Is it much thicker than the NH-900? Does the digital amplifier these units have make them sound much different from the NHF-800, whose sound is superb, IMO? I just ordered 5 more Hi-MD 1 Gig disks. I don't really prefer the regular discs anymore. I always see them as inferior and have so many that it's annoying. Anyone else feel this way? I had started to sell them off and will probably continue in limited quantities. They are becoming a rare find. They're just annoying, though. 3 disks when you could have one. That's what I always tell myself. I have a large music collection and want to make it mobile. I already own an NW-HD5, but still have an affinity for MD. If my player ever breaks, I can buy a new one and spare myself the time of downloading all that music to the player again. Plus, the sound of MD is just better to me. I'm still probably going to use HD5 more often because you can slip it into your pocket and go, which you can't do with 13 1 Gig disks. Even 5 can be annoying. Depends on what I am doing that day and if I am carrying my messenger bag. (I'm sure another HD is coming from Sony soon, as the NW-A is being marked down. I hope it's released stateside. I'll replace my HD5 if and when it is.) I'm sure some of you are wondering why I didn't just shell out $400 or $500 for an R-H1, but I really don't have many legacy recordings. I didn't start recording in earnest until the Hi-MD era. Beyond that, I don't like being absolutely confined to a remote for so many playback functions. And I don't like the price.(Not paying list price for either unit I'm eying, just in case people were wondering.) I don't listen to music in MP3 format (though I have a good deal of MP3s on my computer), so that's unimportant to me. Final question: Which is better for steathily recording a concert? Omnidirectional mics or unidirectional? And how good is the Hi-MD setting for loud music? I've never used it. Maybe I'll get the RH-1 some other day.