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 enlarge | Brand: Sony
Category: CE
List Price: $249.99
Buy Refurbished: $69.99
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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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Very good. April 20, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Firstly and most importantly, this hardware is excellent given the price. You can use regular 80 minutes MD disk which cost $1 to store 300MB of music. Since atracplus 64k sounds as good as mp3 128k, you can store 600MB music on $1 very small disk. This system is better than CD player since it is smaller and it is better than regular flash player since I don't need to start up my computer to change the music or I don't need to buy expensive memory card.
The reason I gave 4 star is because of its software. It works fine. If you have sonic stage 3.0, you just need to install MD driver and computer will recognize your devide. But please remember for every step you need to be very patient. I don't think my lap top is particulary outdated. Sotic stage is very slow. Be patient. After you transfered your music to disk, you don't need to see it again.
By the way, mine came with 5 downloads coupon for Connect. Given the price, isn't it very nice?
 MD's are over. Get used to it. April 8, 2005
4 out of 19 found this review helpful
Do you remember the loner who no one liked and would mope around the school yard during recess by himself? Perhaps you were that loner. But it doesn't matter, because the biggest corporate loner on the block is Sony.
If Sony has a mission statement, it must include something about proprietary products, as Sony always has a tendency to go the way of making technologies that no one else uses. Well, there have been some hits and misses. The Hi-8 camcorder format was a hit. The Trinitron picture tube was a hit. However, the Betamax and Memory Stick are only just two of the misses, and the Minidisc is no exception.
While Sony has indeed reintroduced the MD with new 1 GB capabilities, the glaring issues are still there. First the MD's take a long time to load/spin-up and it is tedious to switch tracks. The buttons on the player are placed in a haphazard manner as usual, and the music licensing protection features only make things worse. You can load songs onto the MD player, but not vice versa unless it is to the same computer. Not even if you own more than one computer. Not even if you accidentally had to reinstall Windows on your sole computer.
Then we have the horrible software that only allows you to export a song 3 times only. That's right, if you export your song 3 times, you can't do it anymore. And not only is this feature frustrating, it's easily remedied by simply changing the name of the file. Talk about a waste of time. Futhermore, more rage ensues when you find out that Sony's "support" of MP3's and WMA's really means that the program will encode everything to Sony's proprietary Atrac3 format. That just about adds about an extra 10 seconds to every file transfer. Adding insult to injury, the Atrac3 format is not used in anywhere but the MD software and the MD itself. It's a proprietary product WITHIN a proprietary product!!!
What are the chances of MD's and Atrac3 becoming widespread? None. MD's have been around for almost a decade now, and they are still rare as unicorns. So there we have it: the new ensemble of Hi-MD products are still slow, still way too over limiting, and still largely unpopular.
If my scathing words do not convince you of the inevitable demise of MD's, just look at Sony's new product line. They make white Fontopia earphones that cater to iPod-users. They recently started a line of hard-drive and solid state MP3 players like so many other companies today. Ready to ditch MD? I am.
 It all works great for me! April 4, 2005
I Love this thing. The battery life is great. I used it at work for around six hours. Then I took it on a trip and listened to it for another 15 hours on the same rechargeable battery and it still had playing time left.
With the 1 gig minidisc I have 345 songs on my minidisk and still have 242.7mb free with the tracks recorded in HI-LP(ATRAC3plus 64kps).
To me the great thing about a minidisc player is I can just change the disc and I have another gig of music ready to go so it is very versatile and cheaper than an MP3 player. Plus to be honest a gig of music in HI-LP (ATRAC3) suits my needs just fine.
At first I did not like the idea of using a proprietary format like ATRAC but it works great and since the software is free and I plan on using an XP pc for sometime to come I did not think it was much of a risk especially since I could always put regular mp3 formatted songs on the minidisc if I want.
I also like the fact that my XP pro OS will pickup the walkman as an external storage device if the SonicStage software is not turned on. That was a nice feature.
I am using Sonicstage v2.0 and it has worked great on my XP pro (sp2) machine. The MD Simple Burner has worked flawlessly for me also.I have written, erased and rewritten songs to my HI-MD minidisc with no problem with this software. As for the minidiscs I have had no trouble finding the HI-MD minidisks or the 80min minidisc.
Bottom line for the money I don't think you can beat this player.
Bravo Sony Corp. April 3, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this item 4 months ago and I couldn't be more pleased. I've had three MP3 players, all of which were frought with problems not the least of which was very limited storage capacity. There has been a lot of discussion recently re; what mistakes Sony Corp. has made in the past few years. I can say without reservation that one major mistake was in not conducting a blitz campaige to publicize their line of Mini Disc Players and to let people know what a superior option they are. My MD functions flawlessly and is very user friendly. If I were pressed to make a negitive comment it would be in regard to the software. The "Mini Burner" is a jewel but the "Sonic Stage" unit leaves a good deal to be desired not the least of which is that you can not download from most internet music services without running into major glitches with "Licensing and Copyright issues. In an attempt at fairness I will admit that the problem may be readily fixable but thus far it remains beyond my syber abilities. This is a great product at a great price so if you're finished with MP3 or if you're just getting into all this buy one...
Good Alternative to an Ipod/MP3 March 1, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
After looking for some digital way to carry my music I decided on this player. It fit the price (under 200) and offered some expandable memory via the disks. I wanted an Ipod or other large capacity player, but the price was to high and the issue of durability of the hard drive and internal battery was a downside. Flash based players only have a limited memory (upto 1gig) and offer no expansion. So, there's the MiniDisc. So far I have about 25 CDs recorded in the AtracPlus 48kbs format and about half of the 1gig disc is full. I tried the higher settings, but didn't notice enough difference in quality to give up the disc space. I also run this with a FM modulator (Belkin), so higher quality would get lost anyway.
Read the reviews and you would think the software (SonicStage) stinks. I have had no problems. It's not the best, but works. I have a newer PC and the file conversion from the CD to Atrac takes about 5-10 min per 1 hour CD.
As for the player itself, I like the ability to see the file data (the included support for GraceNote is very nice and accurate). I can get the song or CD I want quickly. The shuffle feature works really well! This was a major issue for me as I wanted it to randomly play songs from all of my CDs (like my own radio station). The time between songs is almost non-existant, the next song seems to already be cued up. I would highly recommend this player!
Also, I did try a portable CD player with MP3 compatabilty, but the speed was VERY slow. So, don't try that option.
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