- Built-In Radio: No
- CD Player: no
- CD Player / Recorder: No
- Category: Portable
- DAB: No
- DAB Broadcast: no
- Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB): No
- Digital System: Minidisc
- Long play: no
- Longplay: no
- MD Longplay: Yes
- MD Type: MD Standard
- MP3 Playback: No
- MP3 Player: no
- MP3 Recording: no
- PC Connection: No
- Record Function: yes
- Recording Function: Yes
- Table / Portable: Portable
- Table/Portable: Portable
- USB Stick: no
- Width (mm): 81
- Year of Introduction: 2001
- Year of introduction: 2001
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
The Sony MZ-R700PC offers portable MiniDisc recording from just about any source possible, digital or analogue. It looks the business too, with a smart and compact case and a purposeful set of controls. There's also a remote control, which carries the vital playback controls. The front sports a plethora of buttons and a small LCD. The back of the player is less impressive, it lacks the metal casing of the front and the bulge for the single AA battery spoils the otherwise smooth lines. Sony claim over 50 hours of playback time, but this is only if you use a conventional alkaline battery. The rechargeable battery offers around 12 hours of typical use.
The MZ-R700PC has one major and eagerly awaited feature, the ability to record directly from your PC . Despite what you might assume, when recording from your PC it's not done digitally. Basically your PC is used as a music player and the analogue signal piped out through the USB cable. This can lead to some less than ideal sound quality, particularly when recording from highly compressed sound formats. It also means it records in real-time. If possible it's best to record digitally using the optical cable directly from a CD player. You can record in LP2 or LP4 modes, which can mean squeezing four CDs onto a single disc, but again you pay for that in sound quality. It has all the functions you'll need for a full recording MiniDisc although the process can be fiddly, particularly labelling the tracks.
The MZ-R700PC includes nearly all the features found in Sony's top of the range recording players but at a worthwhile cost saving. The ability to record directly from PCs is a bit of a kludge, but can make life a lot easier if you already have a large music collection on your PC and don't fancy the limited capacity of an MP3 player.--Miles Berkeley
Product Description
The Sony MZ-R700PC Recordable MiniDisc Walkman offers features such as G Protection Jog Proof and up to 53 hours of battery life, using Stamina batteries (not supplied). The R700 also features MiniDisc Long Play (MDLP) for extended recording time. This feature offers the user 2 or 4 times the playing time of Standard Play in digital stereo, allowing up to 320 minutes playing time on one 80 minute MiniDisc - that's over 5 hours! The MZ-R700PC comes supplied with a PC Link cable, to link your MiniDisc Walkman to a PC. In this way, files already downloaded from the Internet or from the PC's CD drive can be easily transferred onto MiniDisc. Supplied with rechargeable battery and carrying case with belt clip.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
What? Not a digital PC link??,
By A Customer
This review is from: Sony MZ-R700PC Recordable MiniDisc Walkman (Electronics)
I agree with the reviewer who complained about the lack of a digital link.I went for this one thinking I could just drag MP3 files onto it through the USB connecter, but that just isn't true. You transfer by playing a track and recording the Analogue output from the PC. If your PC makes a noise while recording, it will end up on the disk! The advertising doesn't claim it is a digital link, but I can't be the only person who was mistaken in this way. Having said that, the quality is superb, minidisk is a good and extremely cheap medium (surely one of the cheapest?) and it is easy to use. I think I will keep hold of it in spite of the rather large irritation. It does seem less of a good buy now though. There is an optical link, so digital recording is possible but recording quality isn't a problem.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Dissapointing, but it does the job.,
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This review is from: Sony MZ-R700PC Recordable MiniDisc Walkman (Electronics)
As a MD walkman, this player/recorder is perfectly useable. I bought it because my old first generation player doesn't support LP2 (LP4's sound quality is poor). Improvements are obvious. It's smaller, lighter and the menu system is more comprehensive. Sound quality is fine although let down by the poor earphones. (A fault most walkmans seem to suffer from). There were two areas where it dissapoints.I couldn't resist the extra gadget that this MD player/recorder offers but the PC connectivity is near useless. It uses a small USB audio device to take analog audio data from a USB port. The sound quality from this is abysmal! There is so much hiss from the port that the recorder's track detection has difficulty separating the tracks. You'd be better off burning your compilation onto CD (because it's faster than recording real time to MD) and then recording it via a digital cable to the MD - something you could do with any MD recorder. Secondly, how anybody (let alone Sony) can produce a product with a NiCad battery in this day and age is beyond me. My first generation MD player has a metal hydride battery that can stand reacharging without too much memory effect. It's still on it's first battery! Nicad's suffer terribly from the memory effect and need replacing regularly. Having said that, Sony do go some way to redeeming themselves by giving this player/recorder a good battery life on an alkaline AA battery. It's a good little unit, but I'd stick to the MZR700 without the PC facility and save some money.
98 of 107 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
It can't record digital sound from a PC.,
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This review is from: Sony MZ-R700PC Recordable MiniDisc Walkman (Electronics)
This is a review about the mz-r700PC. The PC at the end of the product code refers to the PC Link that comes with the product.This PC link - the main feature separating this from Sony's other Minidisc players - the USB link is not more useful than a £5 audio cable. It is not a digital link - it is an analogue link. I recommend you do not buy this if you want to use a minidisc recorder with a computer - WAIT UNTIL SONY RELEASE THE mz-r700>D<pc Model that is available in America. The D stands for DIGITAL, and actually does provide digital transfer from a PC via USB The fact that the link is USB is a red herring, as it is actually no faster than an analogue cable when recording - it only records in real time! You cannot drag and drop like with an MP3 player. Note that the USB will not work with Windows 95. I have been in touch with Sony UK about this and other of their new Minidisc range since February, and am not impressed with their customer service responses. In there emails, they do not give any details of the limitations of the analogue PC link. We will just have to wait until they release the DPC models in the UK - and Sony will not say if or when that will happen. In fact, Sony aren't selling this model in America, probably because the Americans will only buy the Digital version. I like Minidisc as a format, and prefer it to MP3 players, but I am going to wait until Sony release the full range in the UK before I part with my money - as I have been told the cost of upgrading will be high - if it is possible at all.
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