New Sony MP3 Player ?

[Rolando]

Hey,

I heard from a friend that Sony are developing an MP3 Player which is going to top iPod in matter of weeks... but I didn't know it's name so I wasn't able to search for it. Any piece of info is appreciated. thx

[Ultomato]

Network Walkman NW-HD1 is what its called

stores 13,000 songs (20gb)

30 hours of battery life, the size of a credit card

but the format of it is ATRAC

[S.MULLA]

shame the format is atrac.. gonna put off many people buying this.. :(

[yert*]

whoa, that looks sweet. But ATRAC? :boo:

[Dazzla Veteran]

http://products.sony.co.uk/productdetail.asp?id=1_23_7152

http://www.jp.sonystyle.com/Product/Paudi/Nw-hd1/

http://www.walkman.sony.co.jp/hdd_nwwm/main.html

But yes, ATRAC sucks, what the hell are they thinking.

[xp1ode]

looks really good, but as many of you have said already, ATRAC3 really blows...

on another note, it looks alot like my sony cybershot digital camera, the style and the screen looks very similar. Would be a great gadget if it supported any other audio format, but oh well too bad for sony i guess wont sell as much....

[Cube]

20gb and 30 hours of battery in that little thing??

all I got to say is wtf is atrac :sleep: :pinch:

[Dazzla Veteran]

Some more pics, I find it unbelievable that it's ATRAC only, that's ****e. I would buy this in an instant if it was MP3.

[yert*]

Some more pics, I find it unbelievable that it's ATRAC only, that's ****e. I would buy this in an instant if it was MP3.

Yeah, really. This thing looks incredible. Atrac sucks so badly. It looks like a camera too

[+Fahim S. MVC]

atrac is cool if you encode from cd.... but cross encoding from MP3 just blows.... shame... hate sony for doing stuff like this....

me goes back to my philips jukebox....

[Ultomato]

20gb and 30 hours of battery in that little thing??

all I got to say is wtf is atrac

ATRAC is the format of music that the sony plays. It sucks cuz you have to format all your mp3s into that format, and i believe it is of lower quality than mp3.

[Guest bartekpl]

OMG..is it out yet??how much would it be?

[Ridgeburner]

That's exactly why I refuse to buy anything Sony branded anymore, too much proprietary crap along with it

[waddle5000]

Some more pics, I find it unbelievable that it's ATRAC only, that's ****e. I would buy this in an instant if it was MP3.

i thought it was a camera when i first looked at this picture

[Ultomato]

around $400 when it comes out, but sony says that since that player uses computer components, the prices will be cut 50% in a matter of i donno 1 year.

[yert*]

It's supposed to be around 300 dollars

[giga Veteran]

They measured the 30 hours of playback and 13k songs from 48kbps Atrac songs. Punks...(N)

[.will]

wow i hope they add mp3 playback :(.

[QuantumTrickery]

Leave it to sony, to take a wonderful looking product, clearly quite functional, and slap trying to promote their terrible standards on it. They ahve so many great products that suffer from this, especially in the audio department. Would be great if it had mp3 support, but still nowhere near an "ipod killer" Ipod Killer has become nothing more than a buzzword by media to promote every last player that comes out. With only ATRAC support, this will quickly become the next minidisc player.

[Brandon]

it looks awsome, but its gonna be overpriced (sony)

[Cube]

Leave it to sony, to take a wonderful looking product, clearly quite functional, and slap trying to promote their terrible standards on it.

LOL yea, another thing I hate is how they slap their overprice memory stick to just about everything they make :wacko: I guess sony being having a label (Sony Music Entertainment Inc) doesnt like to promote mp3's

[Rolando]

crap... atrac :pinch:

sure looks good though :/

[oik]

They measured the 30 hours of playback and 13k songs from 48kbps Atrac songs. Punks...(N)

yep. and imagine if apple tried to get away with selling the ipod as being able to hold 100k songs... if the songs were encoded at 16kbps.

[Si Veteran]

48kbps

I hope that's not what they are selling from their online store or there will be some unhappy people :|

[Chrispynutt]

I can kind of understand why Atrac is still used in minidiscs as they were using it way before portable mp3 players. They were also reasonably popular here in the UK. However slapping it into new products is just stupid, fine Connect needs a drm system that works with its players, but it should support some other more popular formats. The only way Sony even accepts mp3 on one of their players is by hiding behind the Aiwa brand.

http://mp3digest.typepad.com/mp3_digest/20...sony_mp3_p.html

Not cheap, but at least you get Sony tech, earphones and mp3 playback without the Atrac nonsense.