Quote: Originally Posted by PeterDLai That is indeed a very good deal for those three players. Did you buy them broken and just fix them up? yeah, although there wasn't much tinkering involved. the ipod had a broken screen, the vision:m had the battery problem and creative...

got these from ebay for under £90 total i'm quite annoyed because each have their pros and cons, i just want to take the zen vision's divx compatibility, drag & drop, zune's UI, screen and shove it into the ipod's body. next step is to get some headphones!

they sell altoids in UK, i've bought some from my local chemist

don't magnetic waves damage hard drives?

i'd imagine sony have a parts line, you could try that. the sony retail shops (i think) have under administration so no luck there, plus they're probably not tightly linked with Sony anyway.

my latest player the stock earbuds (basically some sony ex51s) were good for music but crap as a hands-free. it's because when you're talking whilst using in-ear plugs, you hear yourself, which is more than annoying! regular earbuds do just fine for phone usage and it makes the...

Quote: Originally Posted by t10 Not quite, technically MJ97 is smaller by area. E10 Dimensions: 81.9 (W) x 72.2 (H) x 9.9 (D) mm = ~58.54cm^3 MJ97 Dimensions: 70.7 x 77.4 x 10.2 mm = 55.82cm^3 that's volume too!

Quote: Originally Posted by caveman I want to buy a 20gig HD player and a pair of closed cup headphones (earbuds aggravate my ears). I realise because the player may not be used for 3-4 months at a time the battery may deteorate. Suggest me the best options (please) BTW my music is...

Quote: Originally Posted by DJShadow I've never dropped any hard-drive out of it's case. It just so happens that the first time I dropped the MK2004GAL HD3 (the one which only gets to the walkman logo), it conks out completely. But my 9 month old HD3 with the MK2006GAL hard-drive has...

that sounds like good news, now if only we can put our broken units together we'll have another working one! i've dropped my unit several times, but never when it's out of the case though.

are you able to take any pictures of the flap? i don't know what it looks like with it broken off, but i assume you can just hold the ribbon cable on with blue-tack or tape. for the battery, there's no obvious notch on the white connector so i just gently pulled on the cable. if you're...

Quote: Originally Posted by Oink1 So the big Q is - does it work post transplant? Aye! not sure about everyone else, but i prefer the white backlit screen with the black unit rather than the blue! it's also very handy to have a working unit on hand. since i cannot...

Looks like I got bored and decided to take apart my HD3 to post pics of it over the Internet... nah, there's a good reason which will be explained later on. So, continuing from cykalan's thread, here's some more detailed images and useful tips on taking apart the HD3. Basically, I...

Quote: Originally Posted by Csidinim Where do you live to drive a small car like that? Europe? You should link some small satellite speakers to the front... those seats must really muffle the sound from the larger speaker. i'm in the UK, hatchbacks are very popular here. i...

somewhat... portable... ......... now you may throw eggs and stuff at me