How Sony's HD Audio Player Falls Short

Posted by timothy on Monday December 13, 2004 @11:13AM from the let-them-count-the-ways dept.

Mr_Silver writes "Sony's new MP3 based HD player (the snappily titled NW-HD3) is reviewed over at head-fi.org. Unfortunately it can't remember where you last were located when browsing, you can't list all the songs by an artist, 1.5 hours to transfer 2100 songs (instead of the iPod's 15 minutes) and a wall of noise in the output. Final conclusion? 'If there was a way I could return this thing, I'd do it in a second.' So close, yet so far." Update: 12/14 00:35 GMT by T : Not quite so fast: As forums.minidisc.org Administrator Christopher MacManus writes, it turns out that (as the threads below this review reveal), "The reviewer discovers that the unit he had is defective as someone else employs one and there is no hiss issue. Furthermore, the software woes he experienced are related to him employing JAPANESE software on an English operating system. Sonicstage 2.3, which he needs to use the unit, is now available in English."

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That's HDD, not HD by PCM2 · 2004-12-13 11:17 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Here I was thinking Sony had some kind of "high definition" MP3 player, but no, it's HDD as in "hard disk drive."

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Stopped comparing iPod with NW-HD3 by zzztkf · 2004-12-13 12:23 · Score: 1, Offtopic

BBS in Japan has already stopped comparing iPod with NW-HD3, as latter is so laughable. It's recoginized as a kind of joke from SONY.
What is at discussion right now is whether Sony's PSP is more attractive or not.

Pros
1) less expensive(about 20,000yen)
2) able to play motion pitcure
3) of course games.

Cons
1) storage support is limited to memory stick Duo(upto 512 mb?)
2) initial quality problem( http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cf6y-oot/)

I personaly have iPod Photo 60GB, however it's maybe nice to have PSP after quality problem are resolved.