RE: MD: Sharp 701/702s for 99 Pounds at RS
I may be wrong, but Sharp doesn't really strike me as a half-arsed company with no money to spend on product development... My 702 was cheap, looks good and works very well. Sony stuff is nice, but they have some wobbly foibles too. PrinceGaz wrote C'mon guys-- Sony can throw many times the budget and staff at improving and checking their ATRAC algorithm than Sharp. - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Sharp 701/702s for 99 Pounds at RS
"PrinceGaz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats true Ralph but what MD definitely does *not* need is peeps being introduced to units like the Sharp 701/702 which will go pants due to utoc errors in 12 months time. I knew it was only a matter of time before Gaz piped in with the "I hate Sharp and I'm going to use the broken-a-year-ago-but-apparently-fixed-now UTOC error to scare people away" line grin Sorry, Gaz... couldn't resist ;-) == Dan Frakes [EMAIL PROTECTED] == - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Sharp 701/702s for 99 Pounds at RS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Picked up a copy of What HiFi yesterday and Richer Sounds have stocks of the old 701/702, with battery and charger etc. for 99 quid. My missus has been wanting one for a while (so she can stop nicking mine), so I went down to the Watford branch and they even had them in stock :-). You'll need a copy of What HiFi though. Tony This is exactly what MD needs! Prizes that start being competetive with other portables.. This is good news! Cheers, Ralph - -- === Ralph SmeetsFunctional Verification Centre Of Competence - CMG Voice: (+33) (0)4 76 58 44 46 STMicroelectronics Fax:(+33) (0)4 76 58 40 11 5, chem de la Dhuy Mobile: (+33) (0)6 82 66 62 70 38240 MEYLAN E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FRANCE === "For many years, mankind lived just like the animals. And then something happened that unleashed the powers of our imagination: We learned to talk." -- Stephen Hawking, later used by Pink Floyd -- === - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Sharp 701/702s for 99 Pounds at RS
Hi! At 10:32 16/12/99 +, you wrote: Dear All, Picked up a copy of What HiFi yesterday and Richer Sounds have stocks of the old 701/702, with battery and charger etc. for 99 quid. My missus has been wanting one for a while (so she can stop nicking mine), so I went down to the Watford branch and they even had them in stock :-). You'll need a copy of What HiFi though. I take it these are the factory repacks which they told me about - I bought a 722 for 170 quid a couple of weeks ago because the 702 wasn't available. They said they had 1000 reconditioned 702s coming in before Christmas, but the guy I spoke to didn't know when or for how much. Never mind. It's a bloody good deal for 99 quid though... Wrighty == | Richard Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | == | _____ __ | | | | | |-. |--. | |---.-.-. |_ -.. | | | | | | -__| _ | | _ |__ --| _| -__| _| | | ||_|_|__|_|__|___._|_||_|__| | || | Dartcom WebMaster - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.dartcom.co.uk | || == |Page me on ICQ - UIN: 4050545 | == - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MD: Sharp 701/702s for 99 Pounds at RS
Hi guys, Thats true Ralph but what MD definitely does *not* need is peeps being introduced to units like the Sharp 701/702 which will go pants due to utoc errors in 12 months time. Add to that the allegedly buggy Sharp ATRAC coding prob (even in the latest units) and the little extra you pay for Sony stuff begins to make sense. C'mon guys-- Sony can throw many times the budget and staff at improving and checking their ATRAC algorithm than Sharp. It does surprise me that there could be a flaw as major as incorrectly coding the MSB in Sharps code, and that it wasn't corrected immediately but perhaps they're all incompetent :-) Cheers, PrinceGaz -- "Blessed Be." Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://website.lineone.net/~princegaz/ ICQ: 36892193 From: "Ralph Smeets" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Picked up a copy of What HiFi yesterday and Richer Sounds have stocks of the old 701/702, with battery and charger etc. for 99 quid. My missus has been wanting one for a while (so she can stop nicking mine), so I went down to the Watford branch and they even had them in stock :-). You'll need a copy of What HiFi though. Tony This is exactly what MD needs! Prizes that start being competetive with other portables.. This is good news! Cheers, Ralph - - To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
