Sony iPod killer NW-HD3
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- puter0
Apple haters make me laugh.
I hated a kid in fourth grade.
I hate yams.I dont spend hours, posts, and thoughts talking about it or trying to push alternatives-
I just do my thing and dont hang with that kid or eat that food.
Competion is one thing, trying to KILL KILL KILL is another. I have a favorite razor make by Gillette. It is the best in the industry in my opinion. I hate Bic razors but doon't really feel the need to go off on it.
- mrdobolina0
Im not really hating, godboy.
- puter0
okay Bob.
- mrdobolina0
okay mark.
- puter0
okay okay then it's settled.
- mrdobolina0
haha, sorry dude. I have been rather agressive lately. I need to get to third after the vanilla ice movie or something.
- puter0
I'm telling you man Vanilla makes them melt.
- abstrakt0
just some news for the Apple freaks... it actually IS possible for something to be better than an Apple product! i know! crazy huh? but it really is possible!
- fate0
Puter, you are way too sensitive.
- shame0
Don't know, i'm beginning to feel sceptical about Sony products, the last two cd players i had were from Sony and both died after like three months. Now i have a Panasonic for about a year, had no problems with it although i barely use it.
- Blofeldt0
Isn't it a well know theory that increased competition ultimatley gives the consumer a better product and more choice?
- nessdog0
My mate's just got one of those sony mp3 players. He said it doesn't work with his mac.
- Blofeldt0
nice new site nessdog. So that's why you've not been on NT recently
- fifty500
haven't read many of the previous posts, but I read a review somewhere on the new Sony Walkman saying that it ONLY plays the Sony ATRAC3 format, which you can only buy from the Sony online music store...
I guess it also comes with software that you use to convert to this format, but I think it's B.S. that you can only use this special format to play on this thing. plus it's 50 bucks more expensive.
- fifty500
also... aren't most new Sony Audio CDs copy-protected??? so that means that the only way to get top-quality ATRAC format tracks are through the sony online music store?
- Ladyvipb0
I got to play with the NW-HD1 or 2 a while ago, and the size is superawsome! BUT, 30h playback... nope. If you use the minimum atrac encoding it might work, but with 192kbps MP3s, you wont get much more time out of it then the iPod.
And the software sucks ass compared to iTunes... thats probarbly the reason I wont buy it. If Sony would get a decent app to go with it, it would totally replace my pod omfg!
- Ladyvipb0
I dont know how this version is, but like 50 said, the previous versions didnt support mp3 playback, so the software re-encoded all the music you transferred to atrac, meaning it takes FOREVER to sync the music.
And re-encoding something thats already been encoded = quality gets teh suck!
- fifty500
say word, ladyvipb
- r_gaberz0
Thought about getting this one, but went for a cheap iPod Shuffle.
The iPod is really just that good, because it got iTunes. Did you look at the crappy piece of software you have to use with the NW-HD3?
- mrdobolina0
the new sony plays mp3's and also why not just turn the thing into a hd and drop files on it. F- iTunes. Although I will be getting a shuffle, because it is tiny and I dont feel the need to bring 5,000 jams with me everywhere I go.