DSP

does someone know if the so-called singnature PSP's are comming to europe? If so, in what form? Gigapack, Value pack, basepack? and what are they gonna cost? are these two the only two or will there follow any other deigns? thx in advance! greetz BTW: I'm all new to this forum so correct me if I'm doing anything wrong

I had the same problem a few weeks ago. I had always been using MD and wanted to try HDD based DAP's. Ipod was no option for me. I doubted between the creative zen vision:M and the Iaudio X5, But the big colour screen didn't atract me and some other things. so in the end I got myself a nw-a1200b and I think it's awsome! especially the sound quality, wich is the most important for me. It's all just my opinion, but the design is really sweet to! the other day we where in school, and I was listening music and had the walkman lying on the table with screensaver on, so every now and then ther would appear a 'sprinkle' on the device. A friend of my sitting next to me (who has an ipod) said she got horny (if I can say that on this forum?? ) by looking to the device and see a sprinkle 'in' the device ('cause you can't see the screen). but all in all, If you just want to listen music, the nw-a series is a very good choice! good sound, good battery, nice and most important original design (something many manufacturers find difficult to find these days) and good codec support! imho it's the best DAP out there.

I tink sony will fight the Zune. I'm not shure how, but they'll shure go and try to beat them! I personally think Microsoft won't have a big succes with the Zune because of some serious lack of experience imho. Sony created this market segment somehow and the only thing aplle did is jumping in on the right moment with the right solution while the big S was sleeping. I think sony MUST stick to the walkman brand! it's so well-known. they just have to boost it's image. If sony only could open up the atrac format! That would be a succes I think (imagine an ipod with atrac ). I'm personally not a fan of color screens in DAP's, but I think, since people are demanding colour screens, sony woul be smart if they put a very neath OLED colour screen in it's new device. Put in video and foto support, the icon based menu of the nw-a series and a good battery and sony would be one step closer to beating apple. If they get rid of the SonicStage software (drag&drop for example), very wide format/codec support (like AVC, MP4, AVI, DIVx, JPG, BMP, PNG, MP3, AAC, OGG, and offcourse atrac) and come up with an attractive name (not nw-a1000 anymore but something like 'walkman Zero', zero indicating a new start for walkman), combine that with an super stylish design with use of materials like metal and magnesium and carbon and stuff like that and they'll blow the ipod away! but I'm afraid that's something I can only dream of..

Hi people, I'm new at this forum so i'll introduce myself first. I'm a fanatic MD / HI-MD user for several years now. I'm 17 years old and live in the netherlands. I'm not familliar with the rules of this forum so please help me if i'm doing someting wrong. I have discovered a way to play your atrac3(+) files with windows media player. I don't know if anyone has done this before, but I thought it couldn't hurt anyone if I share it. here's what t do: download the winamp atrac3 plugin. it's a .dll file. put this file in the following directory: C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player and you're done! now you can play your atrac files with WMP. I hope it's usefull.