Sharp MDMS702 Personal Minidisc Player/Recorder

• Extended-life lithium-ion battery
• Sound mic synchro recording
• Optical digital input
• Three mode X-Bass system
• Illuminated, full-function LCD remote

I got this unit for my birthday, and was blown awaybyit. Almost everything is great about it, but there are flaws: 1: Ifyour trying to listen to it near a tv, it doesn't work because of magnetic fields 2: If you want to plug it into your cigarette lighter in your car, you need to buy an adapter from the company for $45! 3: The battery doesn't have a very long life. It is 6.5 hrs and takes 3 to charge

These bad things don't make me hate the product. I love it because: 1: You can record all music formats onto itmp3, cd, cassette, record, 8-track, etc. If you want, you can record sounds from your tv or radio! 2: It is very small and easy to use. The remote makes changing tracks easy while your driving, especially at night, the remote has indiglo, like watches 3: You can type in track names. Although people seem to like the jog dial on the 722, I don't think holding down a button until you get the letter you want is such a hassle. 4: If you need to remember something, you can plug your headphones (any, not just the ones that came with it) into the mic jack and record your thoughts. If you follow what the manual says, you should have no problems

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After extensive research between a portable MP3 and MD players. I decided to go with the MD format for its non-linear recording (random access like CD's, unlike DAT & cassettes-"linear recording"), titling the disc and track w/ names, very compact size, which also helps in preventing skips, and it's relatively long battery life. After careful consideration, I found that MP3's were too expensive per minute of music. While the price of RAM flash cards are dropping they're no where close to the price of blank MDs. 1 MD-74min($4) + MD player($200)=$220 for 300min or near CD quality, however MP3 player ($140) + 32MB RAM ($80)=$220 for 100min of better than FM stereo quality. Also there's no limit on the number of MDs you can use and archive for your collection.

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I think others have addressed the quality of minidiscs well...the quality is great, and it's a lot cheaper than having memory cards for a MP3 player. Some caveats though...the minidisc players are definitely larger and heavier than MP3 players. But smaller and lighter than CD players. May not be an issue for many people, but I personally love being able to just stick an MP3 player in my pocket, and not even know it's there.

Minidiscs have several really big advantages...they virtually never skip. I've even dropped mine on the ground and it didn't miss a beat. Well-built too...it didn't break even though I've dropped it several times. The ability to add track numbers is great. I often choreograph routines to music and the minidisk player is great for this, I just take the song and split it into a bunch of tracks so I can easily work on one section at a time.

The remote is a real nice feature, this allows you to have the player itself in a backpack or bag, and use the remote on the headphone cord to handle the volume and skip forward or back.

My biggest complaint about this particular player though, is how tedious it is to enter track names in. Of course, this is something you don't even GET with CD players, but if a feature's there, I expect it to work well. The worst thing is that you can't listen to music and enter the track name at the same time. I could live with how long it takes to do, if I didn't have to do it in silence. For that reason alone, I would probably recommend looking at other minidisk players.

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First of all, let me say that this is an excellent product. I don't regret purchasing it. The audio quality is great, and it's very easy to make recordings from any source, including mp3s. But there are a few things I'd change if I could, and I'll list them for your benefit.

1. It's rather difficuilt to enter track names. There's a single "character" button, and it gets old pressing it 26 times to get to "Y." Get my drift?

2. The rechargable battery only gives you 6.5hrs of play on a full charge (3hrs to charge).

Other than that, I'm completely happy with the 702. It's a great product for the money, and I'm sure you'll enjoy using it. E-mail me if you have any questions (viper118@bigfoot.com).

Here below I will tell all of you some useful things which willhelp your MD-702 even greater. 1. You dont have to buy the orginalcigarette lighter from, get one that compatable with panasonic, it works. 2. You can perchase the extra battery unit(it holds regular AAA). Another thing, I had this unit for over a year in the car now, and it works perfectly. Meanwhile my friend had a Sony MD-player in his car, and broke within a year. I can tell you that this little thing might not look as fancy as it is, and maybe a bit too thick, but it's great in and out(except writing names). And plus, it never skips on me, no matter I am listening at home, walking, runing, or driving. My conculsion, this MD-player worth more than you are paying for(compare to other MD-players).