New Sony MP3 walkman -- ugly or what?

[Onket]

I wouldn't really buy an mp3 player on its looks, but I reckon the iaudio X5 looks pretty smart, got some good reviews as well. Bit expensive at the moment though.

Yeah, I like that.

http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?products_id=1011

But the price!!

 

[boing!]

yeah its a bit pricey at the moment, although that link is for the 60gig one, the 30 and 20 ones are bit cheaper.

 

[kea]

I've got a Creative Zen Micro.

*waits for someone to come along and say they are shit*

i was just going to mention them - definitely the best
haven't creative just got a patent on summat to do with their sound technology which sony use, so sony now have to pay them for the pleasure??!

 

[Kid_Eternity]

yeah its a bit pricey at the moment, although that link is for the 60gig one, the 30 and 20 ones are bit cheaper.

£309 for a 60 gig is only a few quid more than the 60 gig iPod. Nice looking player that...

 

[gentlegreen]

i was just going to mention them - definitely the best
haven't creative just got a patent on summat to do with their sound technology which sony use, so sony now have to pay them for the pleasure??!

I've got a 1GB creative nano. Apart from being terrifyingly tiny - like paying 80 quid for a BIC lighter, the sound quality is excellent - pity they couldn't have had a nice extruded ally case made for it ...

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Actually a colleague has one of those Sony bean things and I have to say that although way too annoying not to be able to simply drag and drop, the ATRAC format - superficially at least - seemed to give better sound quality for a given bitrate ...

It does compared to MP3, but not more sophisticated codecs.

 

[A Dashing Blade]

Actually a colleague has one of those Sony bean things and I have to say that although way too annoying not to be able to simply drag and drop, the ATRAC format - superficially at least - seemed to give better sound quality for a given bitrate ...

Agree, use mp3 in my NW5 generally but did mess around with ATRAC which was better to my ears anyway. But couldn't be arsed to convert 40+ gig of mp3's.

If sony made atrac non proprietry and incorporated drag & drop functionality into SonicWare (which is a seriously bad piece of software) then they'd be more than a match for Apple.

 

[jayeola]

actually the mini-disc uses atrac by default but you can use mp3 if you avoid sonic stage. use realplayer drag and drop mp3s onto your md player with realplayer.

 

[knopf]

I don't understand the thread that I started anymore.

 

[jayeola]

i refer the right honourable gentleman to the question that was made some time ago