New Sony MP3 Player ?

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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....

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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....

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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.

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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

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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.

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