Sony's new player vs. iPod
Okay, it 's the best MP3 player out there, but the competition is coming fast and furious.
Is it time to drop the price given what's out there?
Should Apple be concerned about this product from Sony?
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Is it time to drop the price given what's out there?
Should Apple be concerned about this product from Sony?
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Comments
Apple worried? Nah.
J
<strong>Sony 5 hours V iPod >50 hours
Apple worried? Nah.
J</strong><hr></blockquote>
iPod's battery only lasts 10hours
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iPod's battery only lasts 10hours</strong><hr></blockquote>
Only 10 hours? I think that's pretty good actually and lots of people are reporting a battery life of 12 hours plus.
J :cool:
It holds 5 hours worth of music, or 300 minutes. It transfers data at "up to" 32x, which means it would take 10 minutes (probably more in actual practice) to fill a disk. My iPod would transfer that amount of music (approx 4-5 CDs worth of low-bandwidth music) in a snap.
Also, it's not storing MP3 files -- it's converting MP3 files (or CD audio) into ATRAC format files on the MD itself. So if you convert an MP3 to ATRAC, you're compressing twice, once in the CD-to-MP3 stage, and again in the MP3-to-ATRAC stage. Quality is further compromised.
Generally I really like Sony, but this is not an iPod killer.
[ 02-15-2002: Message edited by: sizzle chest ]</p>
<strong>Sony 5 hours V iPod >50 hours
Apple worried? Nah.
J</strong><hr></blockquote>
Just to clarify, I'm talking about 'hours worth of music' not battery life.
J
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Just to clarify, I'm talking about 'hours worth of music' not battery life.
J</strong><hr></blockquote>
How many people really need 50 hours worth of music when they go somewhere?
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How many people really need 50 hours worth of music when they go somewhere?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I need a lot more than that.
With an iPod I would be able to pick the song that I want to play anytime I want without having to worry about switching disks or whether or not I have it loaded today.
It's also a time-saver to not constantly be switching songs onto and off of a player.
OS X, iTunes, and iPod thats the sound of music that moves my bod.
[ 02-15-2002: Message edited by: FatBoy ]</p>
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How many people really need 50 hours worth of music when they go somewhere?</strong><hr></blockquote>
It's all about choice my dear boy!! You're obviously not going to listen to the whole 50 hours but you can choose from the many songs within. How many people need 100+ TV channels?
J :cool:
its not in the same zone as an ipod
But for the iPod to go into the digital device hall of fame they need to add a digital voice recorder that records directly to MP3 and AIFF format through a high quality firewire mic, also an FM tuner wouldn't hurt. But iPod would simply be awsome as a voice recorder. You could record lectures, meetings, interviews literally for hours at a time before downloading them to your comp. You save the important stuff, and dump the rest. Imagine making a CD of an important lecture and chapter marking key explanations so you can directly to what you need. Students, journos, lawyers, doctors, researchers. iPod would become a great tool for work and play!
<strong>MD players are shit. I had one. The sound is not that great and they are prone to breaking after a while. The storage space is not that good and to get 5 hours (bs) the sound would not be woth it. A MD player compresses data with an old codec and 1 MD holds less data then a CD.
its not in the same zone as an ipod</strong><hr></blockquote>
MD players rock! ATRAC compression is head and sholders above mp3. It is proprietary, but sounds much better than most mp3 bitrates, with MDLP you can cram 5 cd's worth of music onto one disc.... another nice thing is that you can record on a minidisc. Hopefully this will be implemented in the next rev of the ipod (the portal player arm chip supports mp3 encoding so I don't see why it wouldn't be added). Untill the ipod can record minidisc will be my format of choice for recording live music.