Shipping in May and with price unknown at the moment, the series will offer capacities of 1 GB to 4GB and FM radio and recording. It will also be able to play the above mentioned formats.
Source:
MP3newswire
Ok I smell a rat! Yeah right you just abandoned the very things that made you exclusive in the market with nothing in it's place! I smell a rat....an it's been dead a week rat!
will sony ever come out with a format that will actually be popular?
Originally posted by killaklan:The compact disc? (In partnership with Phillips though...)
will sony ever come out with a format that will actually be popular?
Quote:Originally posted by killaklan:The compact disc? (In partnership with Phillips though...)
will sony ever come out with a format that will actually be popular?
Quote:Not very big on capacity and just an FM Radio option. In this market Ipod Nano and the other players would still have a decent lead.
Shipping in May and with price unknown at the moment, the series will offer capacities of 1 GB to 4GB and FM
Quote:um you named is what made them and its usually decent quality
Sony has always been a first and second rate manufacture of common electronics(TV,radio,ect,ect,ect) but other than that what is it that they made that made them?
have you seen the price of the sony mps players and how ugly they are?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-WALKMAN-NW-...7837817&sr=1-15
£122.81 for an 8gig ugly lump of plastic!
then for £154.08 you can get a Apple iPod 30GB Video, are sony just retarded about their price and styling? i mean what moron would even consider sony's option even the fanboys arn't that stupid, well ps3 lol maybe they are! sony must rejoice every time they rip off another consumer or sneak some more DRM into our lives.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-iPod-Video...77838003&sr=1-1
Originally posted by pigfister:thats not the new pricing anyway
have you seen the price of the sony mp3 players and how ugly they are?
Quote:RE: video, maybe, hmm, commuters that spend an hour on the train every day that watch and listen to their rss feeds that downloaded over night on their way to work at 7:30am!Originally posted by pigfister:thats not the new pricing anyway
have you seen the price of the sony mp3 players and how ugly they are?
i think the sony ones look better and big deal they don't have color screen, who really watches video on there ipod esp when it only last for like 2 hours then the battery dies.
Originally posted by slashdot link:riaa and sony rejoice money for old rope!
"With the furor over the impending rate hike for Internet radio stations, wouldn't a good solution be for streaming internet stations to simply not play RIAA-affiliated labels' music and focus on independent artists? Sounds good, except that the RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not. 'SoundExchange (the RIAA) considers any digital performance of a song as falling under their compulsory license. If any artist records a song, SoundExchange has the right to collect royalties for its performance on Internet radio. Artists can offer to download their music for free, but they cannot offer their songs to Internet radio for free ... So how it works is that SoundExchange collects money through compulsory royalties from Webcasters and holds onto the money. If a label or artist wants their share of the money, they must become a member of SoundExchange and pay a fee to collect their royalties.'"
Originally posted by pigfister:
have you seen the price of the sony mps players and how ugly they are?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-WALKMAN-NW-...7837817&sr=1-15
£122.81 for an 8gig ugly lump of plastic!
then for £154.08 you can get a Apple iPod 30GB Video, are sony just retarded about their price and styling? i mean what moron would even consider sony's option even the fanboys arn't that stupid, well ps3 lol maybe they are! sony must rejoice every time they rip off another consumer or sneak some more DRM into our lives.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-iPod-Video...77838003&sr=1-1
Originally posted by DancingWD:ipods are plastic but they look stylish, the sony mps player that's, far from original, more like late on the train, is an ugly lump and only has 8 gig hard drive, yes i said hard drive so all sporty types can pass on this offering so that's just like an original product eh, it is also 6.42 oz the heviest of the bunch that will be the added lead lump to make you fell its worth the extra £50 for a lower spec offering!!!
You talk as if iPods are not palstic ...
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i'm sure ipods arn't just black and white!
Well I certainly won't be buying it either. I'm still annoyed with them over the MZ-N707 Type-R which won't allow recording to be transferred to the PC (via USB) and the Hi-MD MZ-RH10 which whilst allowing the recording to be made in WAV has similar limitations including deletion of the original recording. Even transferring the recording via the optical lead offers no advantage either.
I was going to go for the Creative Zen Jukebox, but I heard that there was no easy way of transferring the recordings directly either. It seems that the only way of transferring any live recordings made on any of them is to use the o/p from the headphone socket into the soundcard line i/p, not a 21st century way of doing it. I may as well buy a tape recorder!
It's not supprising that Sony have effectively killed the MiniDisc format, I wonder how long it will take them to kill the MP3.
Originally posted by TekPete:cant bypass the DRM to put "open" music on it?
Well I certainly won't be buying it either. I'm still annoyed with them over the MZ-N707 Type-R which won't allow recording to be transferred to the PC (via USB) and the Hi-MD MZ-RH10 which whilst allowing the recording to be made in WAV has similar limitations including deletion of the original recording. Even transferring the recording via the optical lead offers no advantage either.
I was going to go for the Creative Zen Jukebox, but I heard that there was no easy way of transferring the recordings directly either. It seems that the only way of transferring any live recordings made on any of them is to use the o/p from the headphone socket into the soundcard line i/p, not a 21st century way of doing it. I may as well buy a tape recorder!
It's not supprising that Sony have effectively killed the MiniDisc format, I wonder how long it will take them to kill the MP3.
Eh?
I'm not talking about transferring copyright music from the MiniDisc to the PC I'm talking about wanting to transfer my own original recordings.
I have to admit that I'm not familiar with quite a few terms and references used on this site, like DRM etc. It's probably tied up with "Booking Out" and "Booking In".
Incidentally there used to be a device made by Xitel that allowed direct transfer of tracks from the PC to the MiniDisc, but like I said I'm not interested in doing this, but anyway there's no point because Sony has killed the MiniDisc, no one I know would want a recording on MiniDisc.
Anyway can anyone tell me if it is possible to transfer mic recordings made on a Creative Jukebox to a PC? Because there is absolutely no effing way I'm going to buy another Sony recorder.
So my Digital Rights are being Managed for me. The result is that I have no rights over my own material. I own the Digital Recorder but I don't own anything including MY Digital Recordings. So like I said I might as well buy a tape recorder.