Comments on: ATRAC vs the world

By: moto kurye

moto kurye — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:20:52 +0000

M@Blog – by Matthew Romaine » ATRAC vs the world great article thank you.

By: dbaker6165

dbaker6165 — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:21:53 +0000

I currently own the nw-hd5 (the walkman you are talking about) and the device itself is very good. I chose the device because it seems like the “ipod is like an asshole, everyone has one.” I wanted to be “different” like a mac owner :) I mean, Everywhere I turn I see one… its kind of the same in regards to mac vs. pc users (mac users are in the minority). I will not go into the issue that the device, nw-hd5, does not support support mac use, I mean face it, mac just isnt popular in world wide use and sony wouldnt gain that much more market use by adding support (cuz most mac users are anal about only using apple products). I do not see why people complain about codecs so much, its not even a big deal – I mean if you really cared about the quality you would stick to listening to audio cd’s and you know (at least we assume) that as long as you “BUY” music from an online service like itunes or sony’s connect it will be of good quality OR the encoder’s from the application (even if u just use itunes to encode) will be fine. The only VALID complaint I will agree with against sont is the software used to transfer music files to the device is very very bad yet still effective, which all that matters because i use the device (nw-hd5) 95% of the time i listen to music. I think if you were to truely measure the nw-hd5 vs. the ipod (not givning into the gimmicks like “color screen”, photos, an “touch pad”), thinking which is the best device for playing music and which offers the best “performance” -”performance” being the keyword…. I would have to say the sony nw-hd5 comes on top.

By: 2T

2T — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:14:55 +0000

These are all good points and to create something just to have the marketing folks screw up enough that no one wants it is really frustrating. I, like you use a Mac and what pisses me off so much is that we, who use macs, are used to propritary formats but Sony chose to ignore all of the Apple users worldwide. I purchased one of the early 505’s but wont touch another MD player because Sony will not choose to support the Mac. After all the core of the code is C

By: scooper

scooper — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

good points all. so what would the hd walkman’s number have come in at had sony chosen an atrac bitrate comparable to 128k mp3? is there any science around comparing the two codecs?