New Sony MP3 Player ?

[mihir]

i don't think t3 rated this very highly.

[YBG]

So lame that they can never put mp3 encoding into it instead of atrac. Do they think its luxurious to have ATRAC or somethin?

[clonk]

Sony's 'choise' to include ATRAC3 in all their MP3 players is an unfortunate one, but unavoidable. When you are a company as big as Sony with as many divisions you are bound to run into trouble. You see back when sony was planning their first digitial music player, the Network Walkman MS1, the Sony Music label portion of the company absolutely blocked the electronics division release of a device that could play MP3's. So, Sony's engineers came to a comprimize with the Sony Music division and thus we have ATRAC3.

So don't go biting of Sony Electronic's head for this, blame Sony Music.

[Chouzan]

An obvious contestant for the Cutest Device of 2004. :wub:

[Jason the Eighty Eighth]

i just like the brushed-aluminium case. i don't like how the button is on the side, and the green backlight could be changed to dark blue. get rid of the crappy format restriction, add in OGG playback, and you've got yourself a winning MP3 HDD player. (Y)

though i don't really trust Sony on sound quality... :/

[SabaTime]

im sorry to you Sony fans but I don't think this player will be able to top the iPod. Think about iPod supports up to 3 formats, sony = 1. It looks real nice but I still like the iPod better

[Slimy]

i have a sony md player

but i'm gonna wait for the things that can play movies, music and images until the price goes down

[Roger H. Veteran]

well it looks freaking sweet and i don't give a crap about ATRAC as long as it can sound really good...

[giga Veteran]

well it looks freaking sweet and i don't give a crap about ATRAC as long as it can sound really good...

Atrac sounds terrible. You can see public listening tests and almost all the other formats beat it hands down. :no:

[YBG]

Do you know anyone that says, "Hey, I despise mp3. I should convert all to ATRAC3, it's so much more innovative seeing that it only works with one brand of music players." :rolleyes:

That's how pointless ATRAC is.

[Roger H. Veteran]

well that's prolly tru but i had a Mini-Disc and the only think i hated about it was that i had to use special software which I guess would be required for this device too... so i prolly wont get it but damn it certainly looks good. But i'll still sample it anyways,

[Dazzla Veteran]

The very fact that you've gotta transcode your MP3s to ATRAC to listen to them is disgusting and enough to make anyone not buy it.

<------ Gutted...

[Monkey Man]

i cant see why your all loving it the green lcd backlight makes me sick

[SimplyPotatoes]

atrac does not sound as good as the same songs vs itunes. i have no idea why they are using atrac. i really dont see how this is going to pick up

[+Fahim S. MVC]

The very fact that you've gotta transcode your MP3s to ATRAC to listen to them is disgusting and enough to make anyone not buy it.

<------ Gutted...

It's not that ATRAC3 is bad format.... it's just transcoding sucks..... I mean MiniDisc (full quality) uses ATRAC-R too and sounds very good. And if it's made by SONY you'll have to transcode everything... why can't they leave MP3s as MP3s.. and convert any ripped from CD music to ATRAC.... that is a middle solution that peeps could be happy with.

I'm with Dazzla... SONY make nothing but quality products.... I'm gutted too....