trustee Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 Ordered a Sony NW-S718F. Advertised as "New from Japan" NOT JAPANESE LANGUAGE MODEL ONLY. Now I'm probably gonna be out of $300+. Waiting to see what they say. I had no idea. Any suggestions/solutions? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Ascariss Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 All the players regardless of origin have english installed on them, but if it is a japanese model from japan, it might have different radio frequencies. Any reason why you could not buy one at a local store? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 trustee Posted December 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 it just came out for the JDM...i kind of doubt it has english in it...i tried almost every option...not available here in the US...been waiting for a player like this since i retired my nwhd5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Ascariss Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 Apologies, I confused the players.This one has the noise cancellation.Then the player will have english installed on it, you will have to just find it in the options area. Most JDM units that are sold on ebay have english on them. Seeing as this is a normal NW-S, I would suspect it will come with sonicstage and have atrac on it still.So no need to worry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 trustee Posted December 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...en&ie=UTF-8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 shaft69 Posted December 27, 2007 Report Share Posted December 27, 2007 can anyone confirm that the nw-s718 can display english? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 metal Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 trustee,please let us know when you received the player if NW-S718 will display menu in English. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Gump Posted December 31, 2007 Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 Here is the answer that I get from a japanese trader on ebay:"The player menu can display in Japanese only, but we can provide you with a PDF manual of similar Sony player in English"BR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 kino170878 Posted December 31, 2007 Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 (edited) Here is the answer that I get from a japanese trader on ebay:"The player menu can display in Japanese only, but we can provide you with a PDF manual of similar Sony player in English"BRI got exactly the same response from an ebay seller in Japan regarding the new 16gb NW-A919. Only Japanese menu display is available.Edit - I think the only hope for us is that the Japanese public attach value to learning English, so it *may* be a possibility that the option for an English menu is available somewhere on the player. Certainly a lot of electronics have English displays, this would be quite a break from tradition if Sony were to adopt such a bias towards Japanese only. Edited December 31, 2007 by kino170878 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 metal Posted December 31, 2007 Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 (edited) This is ridiculous but not really totally surprised knowing this is Sony we are talking about. So Sony is very determined to ditch SS and ATRAC outside of Japan. Not only they don't offer any of their new ATRAC players but they also make sure we don't want to import them by offering only Japanese menu.BTw, Happy New Year to all. Edited December 31, 2007 by metal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 k30248 Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 Does this mean that this model doesn't support drag and drop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 shaft69 Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 Does this mean that this model doesn't support drag and drop?This model doesn't support drag & drop but it support sonicstage and atrac.... if you want one who is drag & drop you should get the NWZ-S618 (it's the same design) but it doesn't support atrac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 k30248 Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 Well, that explains why drag and drop isnt working. Sonicstage doesn't seem to recognize it, but it might just be that I have to update it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 shaft69 Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 No I just get an e-mail from SONY and it says that atrac and "drag& drop" are not compatible because of SONY DRM which don't work without sonicstage so you have to choose between atrac + Sonicstage + Gapless (with atrac) and Drag & drop without atrac, sonicstage etc... Me I prefer atrac :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ordered a Sony NW-S718F. Advertised as "New from Japan" NOT JAPANESE LANGUAGE MODEL ONLY. Now I'm probably gonna be out of $300+. Waiting to see what they say. I had no idea. Any suggestions/solutions? Thanks.
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