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I've got me a new toy! (no, not one of THOSE!)

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I went out and got me an mp3 player! :) Turns out that Best Buy got in some more Sony players and I found one with a 80 hour battery life, with a remote control...and it came with the car kit! All for $79.95! (Walkman D-NE51CK) It also came with software where I could rip songs and encode them either as mp3s, "Atrac", "Atrac2", or "Atrac3". (whatever the hell those last three are. :p) I was going to nab the Panasonic player when I happened to see this thing. The only drawback is that it came with some really shitty quality headphones, but thats no big deal since I'll use my Koss earbuds anyhow.

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edit: Link updated. Sony updated their website, so I updated the link to point to the appropriate product.
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eek! Sony! aieeeeeee!
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Beowulf wrote:eek! Sony! aieeeeeee!
Hey man, don't me knockin' Sony. I've still got the very first Discman they released ages ago. The thing has been dropped atleast half a dozen times, and the only thing to show for it is that it lost two of the three ball-bearings in the disk holder. (which causes it to skip randomly on the last couple tracks on any CD) They may be high priced, but they're fucking durable as hell! I swear, the things are part Timex!
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Nice battery life...

I have a small and nice and compact one, but its batteries last only about 12 hours... :(

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Vertigo1 wrote:
Beowulf wrote:eek! Sony! aieeeeeee!
Hey man, don't me knockin' Sony. I've still got the very first Discman they released ages ago. The thing has been dropped atleast half a dozen times, and the only thing to show for it is that it lost two of the three ball-bearings in the disk holder. (which causes it to skip randomly on the last couple tracks on any CD) They may be high priced, but they're fucking durable as hell! I swear, the things are part Timex!
I have a similar story, my Sony Discman is about 2 years old, has been impacted more times than I can remember, and still functions perfectly.
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Alright, I decided to do a little benchmarking on the skip protection. I've done everything I can think of just short of dropping it on a slab of concrete. So far the skip protection has lived upto its claim! Even when playing a 320kbps mp3!
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