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Hi all,

Having a bit of a dilema been sitting on the fence and am about to get off it. I want some kind of portable music and its a choice between hi-ms or one of these 1 gig mp3 players.

Anyone advice on which to go for would be grate, starting to drive me crackers readin specifications for these things.

Cheers
Happy easter

1 Hi-MD disc will hold 1gb of data, so if you take 4 or 5 discs with you you can see the benefits immediately.

I personally have standard net-md and much prefer it to my old mp3 player, and no doubt when the Hi-MD prices fall a bit I`ll be into the market.

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I cannot emphasise how amazing Apple`s iPod is, so that would most definitely get my vote. :)


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I didn`t know you could get a 1 gig iPod.

Is your battery still working?

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You can`t get 1GB, lowest is 4GB. I have a 20GB, and yes my battery is fine.


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I`ve been into MD since the original MZ-1 came out....1992 or so??? I`ve eventually given up and got a Philips 15gb MP3 player for just over £200 earlier this year, as its just so convenient. Things like the Creative Zen`s are a bit too clunky, but the Philips is fine (and doesn`t lock up if you install the v6.6 software on thewir website!).

Sony were so busy hamstringing MD as a format to prevent piracy (no fast uploading from MD, the `check-in / check-out` process for netMD), they basically missed the boat. I don`t want to have to buy a new CD/MD deck, MD player for my car, AND portable MD player to handle this new format!! It`d cost me a fortune. (£500 to £600 and £7 a disc!)

Most people in the MD community see this as all a bit too little too late, and after this last Hurrah, it`ll gradually be phased out. A real shame as for years I was championing with my mates, who all have either ipods, iriver HD120 or something like it now....if I was recommending anything, I`d go for an iriver HD120 (£249 on Amazon UK), 20gig and 16 hour battery life (probably 12 hrs in reality).

As I say, a real shame, but again Sony`s stubborness has stopped any real development in increasing capacity etc (LP4 doesn`t couint in my opinion)), and MP3 players which didn`t exist when the MZ-1 came out, have come along and taken over.

Vince

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having owned md from the very begining you would think i`d vote for that, unfortunatly my nokia n gage beats it hands down, quality is the same but for convieniance you can`t beat mp3, and hopefully i`ll be getting a nokia 6230 to replace the n gage (6230 is much smaller) + it means only carrying one device around with you + no moving parts to get battered (i`ve had to dig a few md`s out of players in the past) a 265meg card stores enough music/audio books to keep me occupied all day at work ;) but i must admit i wouln`t mind a mini ipod :D

EDIT- STUFF MAGAZINE HAVE AN MP3 ROUND-UP IN THIS MONTHS MAG :)

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Hello,

I would choose HI-MD.
£7 per gig storage, incredible battery life (50hrs), light, small and relatively inexpensive.

I hear the iPOD argument, the strongest being 4gb-20gb+ storage, but although I have that amount of compressed music, I can`t imagine any circumstance where 20gb`s of music would be useful; even if the battery life of an iPOD actually allowed you to play more than 128mb before a recharge.
Even with 4000 songs on there, whenever you want a new track on it, you still need to upload it, so it`s not as if you don`t have to go back and forth to your pc.

I love the idea of MP3 players(and own one), and the iPOD is sooo cool(in theory), but they just don`t deliver the flexibility/reliability of NetMD, let alone HI-MD.

That`s just my view, not meant to cause offence.

Neil.

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Been a very hard decision and I had a Md and had no quibbles with it just struggling with the 80 mins discs so the 1 gig discs will be great and having followed md`s for some time I feel like its a dieing fight. Then I`m left thinking well I could fork out the initial £300 odd quid a new unit will cost get 20 or more discs and stock up on them but then I leave myself thinking I`m buying a dead media but it would still be ideal even if its was left with just the die hard Md junkies.

Gasp

Then I look at the Iriver 20GB MP3 Player and think iCaramba and think yeah this is great I had a rumage through hdd mp3 players and flash ones and this looks like a lovely bit of kit and 20 gig well that will easily cover all my musical needs and more. So no expensive memory sticks needed. So I`m going to go with this lovely unit. (thanks to VinceDVD recomendation and all)

Just feel a little bad thinking about hi-md the new units do look sweet and nice and small and all the usual great features and the ability to upload and down form the unit and added new features. I do wonder even if it does sadly fade away I would still have a unit with at least a few gig discs for my listening pleasure till. But what to do if it packs up or needs a fix.

So to put a cork in it the Iriver it is.

Thanks to all your input was very much appreciated.

Just tp add tp that the only bugger with the iRiver is the battery say 2 - 3 years when they possibly die you cant aparantly change them yourself you have to send them away and gawd knows if iRiver at thtat time will change em`.

Other than that looks like a cracking bit of kit :)