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Electronics : Sony MZ-NH600 Silver Hi-MiniDisc Walkman
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Rating: 
- Great for night-time radio
Despite the current unavailability of 1 gb disks, the standard disks can be reformatted and this is where the hi-md really comes into its own. Even though there is no power unit, you can plug in the power unit from a standard unit. Then you can record 10 hours from the radio, {at 64 kps} which I do through the optical output of a Pure Tempus-1 evoke unit. So I plug it in on a Saturday night, and leave it on all night recording Bob Harris among others from Radio 2. After that I can listen to it while cycling or as I am doing now, I can play it through my computer through the usb port. Unlike the old minidisc models, it plays through the loudspeakers.
Rating:
- Under-rated compared to the iPod Mini
OK, so first off, yes, Hi-MD disks are near impossible to find at the moment.
However, this is a great player. If you use the 64Kbps ATRAC3Plus format for your recordings, they'll generally sound pretty good (not perfect, but what do you expect from those file sizes - certainly at least on a par with MP3, and generally better), and you'll get plenty of music on a single Minidisc, once it's been reformatted into the Hi-MD format - often around 9 albums on the one disc, and the standard Minidiscs are so cheap (around 50p each) that there's no problem getting several to do compilations for whatever mood. I will be happier when the Hi-MD discs are more readily available, though.
The battery life is outstanding - 20+ hours on the one AA battery - I'd be hard-pushed to find anyone who has a problem with that battery life, especially when you can esaily just put in a new (rechargeable) AA battery when the first runs out (unlike the iPod's internal battery).
The price is great - OK, so it's more than the standard minidiscs, and more than a flash-memory MP3 player, but you should really be comparing it to a hard-drive player, as the Hi-MD disks are more in line with the mini HDD players than the others, and compared to the Hard-Drive players, it's comparatively cheap.
Durability - I've only had it a little while, but I've dropped it a few times, without problems.
One last thing, if you had a minidisc skip on you in the past, don't worry about it with this one - I haven't managed to get that happening, even when I've been running.
Rating:
- cart before horse
This machine would actually be worthy of a 5 star rating if you could actually buy the all important 1GB discs! Sony say that they will probably be available in 3 to 6 months! My particular circumstances mean that it's a waste of my time recording on to normal MD's only to have to record everything all over again if the 1GB discs ever become available - I have no computer. So Philips HDD120 here we come!
- Great for night-time radioDespite the current unavailability of 1 gb disks, the standard disks can be reformatted and this is where the hi-md really comes into its own. Even though there is no power unit, you can plug in the power unit from a standard unit. Then you can record 10 hours from the radio, {at 64 kps} which I do through the optical output of a Pure Tempus-1 evoke unit. So I plug it in on a Saturday night, and leave it on all night recording Bob Harris among others from Radio 2. After that I can listen to it while cycling or as I am doing now, I can play it through my computer through the usb port. Unlike the old minidisc models, it plays through the loudspeakers.
Rating:
- Under-rated compared to the iPod MiniOK, so first off, yes, Hi-MD disks are near impossible to find at the moment.
However, this is a great player. If you use the 64Kbps ATRAC3Plus format for your recordings, they'll generally sound pretty good (not perfect, but what do you expect from those file sizes - certainly at least on a par with MP3, and generally better), and you'll get plenty of music on a single Minidisc, once it's been reformatted into the Hi-MD format - often around 9 albums on the one disc, and the standard Minidiscs are so cheap (around 50p each) that there's no problem getting several to do compilations for whatever mood. I will be happier when the Hi-MD discs are more readily available, though.
The battery life is outstanding - 20+ hours on the one AA battery - I'd be hard-pushed to find anyone who has a problem with that battery life, especially when you can esaily just put in a new (rechargeable) AA battery when the first runs out (unlike the iPod's internal battery).
The price is great - OK, so it's more than the standard minidiscs, and more than a flash-memory MP3 player, but you should really be comparing it to a hard-drive player, as the Hi-MD disks are more in line with the mini HDD players than the others, and compared to the Hard-Drive players, it's comparatively cheap.
Durability - I've only had it a little while, but I've dropped it a few times, without problems.
One last thing, if you had a minidisc skip on you in the past, don't worry about it with this one - I haven't managed to get that happening, even when I've been running.
Rating:
- cart before horseThis machine would actually be worthy of a 5 star rating if you could actually buy the all important 1GB discs! Sony say that they will probably be available in 3 to 6 months! My particular circumstances mean that it's a waste of my time recording on to normal MD's only to have to record everything all over again if the 1GB discs ever become available - I have no computer. So Philips HDD120 here we come!