Sony NW-HD5 Network Walkman 20 GB Digital Music Player (Black)
- Stores up to 13,000 songs on its 20 GB hard drive
- Up to 40 hours continuous playback with the removable Lithium-Ion battery
- Bi-Directional LCD Display allows you to switch modes and view the LCD in a vertical or horizontal position
- Suports WMA and WAV, plays back MP3, ATRAC3, and ATRAC3plus
- Comes with SonicStage software, headphones, carrying pouch, USB cable (compatible with USB 2.0), and AC power adapter
Product Description
Sony's worldwide reputation for creating unique, attractive, high-quality, advanced technology products rests on a long line of innovations embraced by people from all walks of life. With a diverse product lineup serving a variety of lifestyles and industries, Sony continuously strives to introduce new products and technologies to meet changing market needs.PRODUCT FEATURES:20 GB internal Hard Disk Drive memory;Fast music and data transfer via Hi-Speed USB connection;Capable to store audio, visual and data files (Word, Powerpoint, ATRAC, Mp3, Jpeg, Mpeg, etc.);SonicStage 3.1 software for easy music management and transfers;Sony's unique G-sensor technology protects the internal HDD even if it falls from a height of 1 m;Directly playback: ATRAC / MP3;Extremely long playback time of up to 40 hours with the built-in rechargeable battery;Large 7 line (1.5 inch) LCD with various backlight colors;Ultra compact size weighing just 135 grams.
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Sony NW-HD5 Network Walkman 20 GB Digital Music Player (Black)
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- Publisher: Sony
- Label: Sony
- Studio: Sony
- Average Customer Review:
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- Sales Rank in Electronics: #29596
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Summary: Wonderful player 2008-07-14
Comment: I am using this player for 3 years and I am wondering everyday, what a great thing it is!
Just made for you, everything is so easy and so nice to use... and the playback is in it's hi.
I couldn't find any issue with this product, a huge thanks to SONY!!!
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Summary: PERFECT SOUND! 2007-10-09
Comment: So ok, the latest iPods models have colour screens and even touch sensitive displays that - let's face it - are really fun to use. HOWEVER, if sound quality is important to you, then you simply can not go past this brilliant unit from Sony. My only wish is that Sony and Apple would work on a combined product! Then I think many people will be in true nirvana with brilliant looking devices that make every note of the music sparkle. The great thing about the NW-HD5 is that you don't need to use lossless or high bit-rates in your music to get great sound. EVERYTHING sounds amazing.
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Summary: bye bye Sony 2007-04-14
Comment: It is very user unfriendly thingy. You have to use the Sonic Stage that comes with it. I bought it in 2004 to avoid iPod. I put up with it for a while. The player itself is fine. Very flat and sleeky, stylish looking. Only the software is stupid.
The audio out jack stopped working in 2007. so no more music for me. It cost me a lot of money when I bought it in Europe.
Now I went iPod. Great accessorizing opportunities unlike Sony. iPod works great with many car audio. Alpine that I have let me press menu of the iPod on the reciever. iPod stays in the Glove box. Nothing like that happens with Sony Walkman (not that I know of).
Byt he way, I now use it as an external hard drive. :-)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: owner since release 2007-02-16
Comment: i've purchased the black version since the release of this player and it has not caused me any inconvenience at all.
this is simply the best bang for the buck. granted, it's more pricey than an ipod or mini with similar capacity but it's also much better constructed. the surface is very difficult to destroy unless you really bash it against something intentionally. daily wear and tear is non-existent with this player. mine still looks the way it did when it came out of the box that fateful day.
sound quality far surpasses ipods, in my opinion. you can't tell the difference until you actually fork over enough cash to get a high-end pair of headphones (i've listened to both players on ultimate ears super.fi 5 and shure e4gs). once you do, you'll realize that ipod falls way short when reproducing bass clarity and intensity - very important to me as i'm a metalhead/punk junkie.
the display looks stylish to boot. there's the option to invert screen color so that you can have a black screen match the black player and vice versa (though a red player with black screen looks the most striking). screen tilt technology is a bit of a gimmick. the complete look of the nw-hd5 just screams style. it's sleek, matte (i hate highly polished products, very garish), solid and has some weight to it - which i like, it tells me that the player is well protected. i've dropped it several times at about waist-length and it hasn't yet suffered any dents or scratches. i like to set trends, not follow them - which is why i've opted for this player rather than ipod, which i've considered getting prior to its actual release but soon decided against it due to everybody and their dogs owning one. for the longest time thereafter (release of ipod, prior to release of nw-hd5) i've used the rio nitrus - which i highly recommend to anyone who's fashion conscious yet can't quite afford this, if it could even be found at all with the influx of sony nw-a models).
sonicstage is not difficult to handle at all. however, one thing i did not like about the player is that you NEED to use the sony proprietary formats (atrac3, atrac3 +) to get the full enjoyment out of any song. the equalizers are off limits to any other format - an unfortunate consequence. the only problem i have with sonicstage is the inability to convert any song that you've converted to atrac3+ back to its original format. therefore, unless you plan to leave twice the amount of disk space for each song by having a copy of atrac3 and a copy of mp3/whatever, you're going to be stuck with atrac3+ till the day you die (or till the day they release something that allows backwards conversion). the only way that i've been able to get songs back into mp3s is by burning them to CDs then ripping them off as mp3s again. vastly annoying.
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Summary: RIP best high-capacity MP3 player 2006-11-17
Comment: So sad Sony discontinued this unit, which is the very best I've ever seen. To wit:
1. Superb sound quality, much better than my iPod
2. An easily user-replaceable battery (which costs less than a Jackson at any lithium ion battery site)
3. Incredibly tiny size
4. A black and white screen, which gives it TREMENDOUS battery life. Color displays suck up power, and for what? No, it's not a video/photo device, so I guess that will be a problem for people who want to watch movies at the size of a postage stamp.
SonicStage isn't nearly as bad as everyone says, but whatever. It's not like you use it every day with a player like this anyhow.
Sad to see you go, NW-HD5. I wish I'd bought an extra when you were still around.
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