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 enlarge | Brand: Sony
Category: CE
List Price: $249.99
Buy Refurbished: $69.99
You Save: $180.00 (72%)
New (4) Used (4) Refurbished (8) from $69.99
Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 7965
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries: 1
Batteries Included: No
Battery: AA type
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 11 x 9 x 3
MPN: MZNH600D
Model: MZNH600D
UPC: 027242636514
EAN: 0027242636514
ASIN: B0001M3MVG
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Ignore the naysayers, this player is terrific! May 30, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've had mine a couple of weeks now, and I'm having a ball with it; it's given me a whole new way to listen to my music. It's easy to use, and the sound is really good for something this small (if you have really good headphones, then it'll sound even better). I got 43 CDs on the Hi-MD disc that came with the player--time to order some more blanks from Amazon.
This really is a good low-cost alternative to iPod/mp3. I agree with all of those who have said that Sony should market it more agressively. The minidisc is the #1 choice in Asia and much of Europe, and could be more popular here with the proper push, especially with the Hi-MD player's ability to hold more music.
Get one of these, you'll like it!
A great choice for realistic people May 12, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I read a lot of reviews before I purchased my Hi-MD player. And they started to make me wonder because they were all complaining about the proprietary ATRAC and how it doesn't work with MP3's. Well I bought one for $87 including shipping and I love it. I've been mostly copying my CD's but have used a few MP3's and it works fine. Only computer geeks who think they need the very latest and best wouldn't like it. But I don't think anything on the market is going to satisfy them.
I don't have a real problem with the ATRAC. I don't think the transfer speed is too slow. I expected much slower after the reviews I read. But in order to fit 45 hours of music on a disk, you need to compress the music! MP3 doesn't compress it enough. I'm thankful for the compression and I think the quality is still very good. Yes, I can tell a little on the 48kb/s transfer speed, but not enough to give up the amount of storage space it offers.
My biggest complaint is that the software will crash occasionally and a backlight would be nice for the display. And I wish it was a little more sturdy with metal and not plastic. But then it would be heavier.
But I've never had it skip and it's small and compact. Much cheaper than an MP3 player and the storage is removable so you don't have to keep adding and deleting music every time you want to listen to something else. Just buy a new disk. Price is right when you look around. I'm using it mainly for music right now so I can't speak on it being a portable storage unit, but nice feature. And you can't beat the battery life. If you could plug in a car adapter or AC adapter, that would just make it all the sweeter.
 Excellent hardware. Software: No comments! May 11, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Before buying it, answer the question: How do you usually get your tracks? I am just talking about legal sources.
If you have those 400+ CD collection at home, then this is the right hardware for you. Use the Net MD simple burner software, and you can live reasonably happy. The sound and ease of use are excellent and will compensate some frustration with the software such as check in check out.. (forget sonic stage at all!!)
If you buy your music online, no matter where (Napster, Walmart, Itunes, etc..), then forget it! Before you get used to all the work around, such as burn all of them into CD's, them upload them and then edit the tag information for each track or so, you will want to get rid of it immediately... Unfortunately Sony hasn't woken up for the new digital world yet (Will they someday?)
 Total Junk May 5, 2005
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
I made the mistake of selling my old Net MD devices and buying several of these MZ-NH600D units to replace the old ones. At first, it seemed like they were a great replacement to the old models. Greater storage. Can connect to PC and use as a drive. It is now 3 months later and 2 of the ones I bought have broken. One, broke a month and a half after I bought it, was serviced, returned and broke again. Sony should be ashamed of putting their names on this junk. They were obviously trying to squeeze out profit on these units at the expense of quality and customer satisfaction.
Don't get a Flash MP3 Player get this ! May 3, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought this player after spending loads of time choosing between the Creative N200 and Iriver flash 7XX series. I have many CDs and only a few MP3s (30) the "obvious thing" I thought was to buy a MP3 player and rip all of my CDs to MP3. Then I came across HI-MD and thought again.
If you have loads of MP3s that have been downloaded recently and they have DRM protection then this player is NOT for you BUT if you like me have lots of CDs and a few older non protected MP3s and you want portable music "Non Skip" music on the move then read on.
Ok let's deal with the biggest negative's first, this model has no MP3 encoder or radio but I wanted something that plays MY favourite songs not a radio DJ's. The software supplied SonicStage v2 isn't the best either (download v3.0 its better)and the Sony control system is a bit fiddly but just like an Iriver player, once you get used to it, it's fine.
One thing to note is that this is a MiniDisk player and so it only plays Sony Atrac files. Mainly the sound quality is better than expected and it's brilliant if you convert CDs directly to Sony's Atrac3plus 64K rate. This gives you an amazing 45hrs of "CD quality" music. Ignore most of what you've read about converting MP3s to Atrac. All music has to be converted to this format prior to playing so your old MP3s and WAVs are turned into Atracs. If you had a decent MP3 file (192Kbps or higher) then for the most part the sound quality is fine.
Compared to the aforementioned MP3 players above, I got my player for 50 plus 5 for a 1Gb HI-MD. This is a lot cheaper than the equivalent MP3 model of 128K. On the Iriver and Creative players I transferred 22 MP3 songs at most and they were both full. This times 8 equals 1GB so we can say that we can get roughly 176 songs onto a 1GB model of the same players. Now onto HI-MD, you can get around 500 songs of around the same quality onto 1 HI-MD disc. Don't worry too much about HI-MD discs you can get them easily on Amazon or Ebay and you'll only ever need a few. Most MP3 players have
In short, the sound quality is great, HI-MD holds about 500 songs plus you have folders and playlist support. Furthermore if you don't mind using SonicStage, manual podcasting MAY also be possible.
Its not a perfect solution to portable music (there isn't one) but in my view when comparing it to a flash based MP3 player its well worth the money.
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