nw_lover Posted December 1, 2005 Report Share Posted December 1, 2005 unfortunately not a portable one but let's hope for the future http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news.php?newsId=2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Stuge Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 Amazing ,Now they are running away from ATRAC Codec.This new release shows that they don`t want there atrac files to be distributed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bland10000 Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 I think it has less to do with the distribution of atrac files and more to do will appealing to a larger segment of buyers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Beethovenian Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 Sony is stupid. Instead of opening their format and letting others use it freely, they are slowly moving away from it. Why don't they at least make this player and the Sony Ericsson Walkman phones able to play Atrac? How do they want their customers to be faithful to the company if they don't let them use their music files in every Sony device? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 pata2001 Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 I don't understand the point of this. If you need to connect the faceplate to your PC, why don't you just burn your MP3s to a CD and play it via the CD part? With the cheap cost of CD-Rs, you won't be limited to 1GB.Looks like Sony is going nowhere. Instead of this, why don't Sony create a built-in interface on their car decks to connect with the network walkmans? Or implement seamless capability for AtracCD playback? Sony is getting dumber and dumber, and creating more divisions in their product lineups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Rumz Posted December 3, 2005 Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 I don't understand the point of this. If you need to connect the faceplate to your PC, why don't you just burn your MP3s to a CD and play it via the CD part? With the cheap cost of CD-Rs, you won't be limited to 1GB.Looks like Sony is going nowhere. Instead of this, why don't Sony create a built-in interface on their car decks to connect with the network walkmans? Or implement seamless capability for AtracCD playback? Sony is getting dumber and dumber, and creating more divisions in their product lineups.←No joke. 700MB CD vs. 1 GB flash? Only advantage is that one would never skip. Hardly worth it... now, design an interface for your HDD players (standardize the data port or something) or throw an actual HDD in the stereo... then it becomore more interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MDX-400 Posted December 3, 2005 Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 (edited) I don't understand the point of this. If you need to connect the faceplate to your PC, why don't you just burn your MP3s to a CD and play it via the CD part? With the cheap cost of CD-Rs, you won't be limited to 1GB.What makes even less sense is the deck clearly has an ATRAC3/3plus decoder on-board that it no doubt probably uses to decode all formats (not just ATRAC). Because you can play AtracCDs on the unit, like all other recent Sony CD HUs with MP3/ATRAC capability...I think the article may be wrong about ATRAC in the FP; it doesn't make any sense that the unit will play ATRAC3/3plus files off a CD but not from the FP's built in memory. Edit: Ohhh okay I get why the FP can't use ATRAC. It's because the FP you just drag/drop files over and it works like that. For ATRAC you'd have to use SS or whatever the new prog. is called, so I guess that's why it doesn't do ATRAC.What is also strange about this deck is that Sony has had decks in the past that could use MagicGate MemorySticks (the MEX-HD1 comes to mind), so why wouldn't they just stick an MS slot on this thing instead of having the memory built into the FP? Strange move by Sony indeed.Instead of this, why don't Sony create a built-in interface on their car decks to connect with the network walkmans? Or implement seamless capability for AtracCD playback? Sony is getting dumber and dumber, and creating more divisions in their product lineups.←Well all their current model MP3 capable units can play AtracCD, including this one according to the article. I don't get how they aren't "seamless" in this regard? You put either an MP3 CD or AtracCD in and it plays it, how much more seamless can it get?As for the adapter to connect network Walkmans, Sony has promised this to UK customers for some time it seems--all their UniLink HUs (any that have CD/MD Changer Control which is nearly all of them) have been being sold in the UK as "Walkman Ready" but they have not yet released the adapter, and it's been about a year now I think Interestingly they've made no mention of this adapter in the US yet, though any UniLink capable head (including ones as old as perhaps 10 years) should be able to use the adapter since UniLink hasn't changed very much and doesn't have many compatibility problems over the years.Aside from that, the Connects2 company has leapfrogged Sony at their own idea and released an adapter that does exactly this. I personally was pretty excited to find out about it and I posted it some time ago on both the T-Board and Minidisc.org but it seems not many people are even interested. http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=11309It's no wonder Sony is taking their time in releasing their own adapter... Edited December 3, 2005 by MDX-400 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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unfortunately not a portable one but let's hope for the future
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