Sony MZ-RH10 Hi-MD Walkman Digital Music Player/Recorder

I bought this Sony HI MD recorder as a way of recording my (teacher) classes in school. With a 1gb disc, I recorded a week of daily 8hr classes in school. I rarely used it for music since I drive and would rather use an Ipod in the car. Times have changed and you should have a specific use for this player if you chose to buy it.

Sony has created a misleading product and equally bad description. The mz-rh10 is NOT made for recording. While it seems like a great a idea in theory, in reality the unit and its horrible software ruin everything. I used mine mainly for audio recordings to create soundscapes and documentaries. After filling many"40 hour"1 Gb discs, and struggling for years, much of my work has been destroyed by this incorrigible piece of work.
Sony should refund its users of this unit and openly apologize. The recording part is fun and seems as though it will work, like Sony says it will. But when you transfer to PC (only!) you lose all names and coding of the music and to top it off, lose the ability to transfer again...anywhere. This means that even your own work is protected from yourself. Thank you Sony for stealing my money and my work and my time.

I bought another MD player becasue my old one broke and I have a huge collecction of MDs. Id prefer a new MP3 player.

It was great the first year. The second year the remote went bad, which is not digital. It would have been better if it was digital like others I have had. It cost $50 to replace. The shock proof performance degrades over time. Not sure why that would be but after 3 years it has become VERY sensitive.

Its an attractive MD player, its great but for the price......look somewhere else.

I have to disagree with the reviewer Stafford Hunter. The player has several recording speeds (similar to VHS). If you record on the lowest compression speed, then yes you will only get and hour and a half of recording time. But if you change the setting to record on the highest compression speed (Hi-LP) then you can get about 30 hrs or so of recording time onto a 1 gig disk. I've had my Sony MZ-RH10 for almost a year now, and I've recorded lots of rehearsals, concerts, and have burned many CDs from the recordings! I love it! The clarity of sound this recorder gives is much better than other recording devices I've used in the past. It's an excellent device for musicians to use and I highly recommend it!!

Basically, I think its a good MD recorder. But, I'd advise
all musicians to NOT assume (like I did) that recording
LIVE music (via mic) to a 1 gig disc was going to give you
seemingly an endless amount of recording time on this MD
recorder. You can only record about 1hr + 34min of LIVE
music(via mic) to a 1 gig disc. etc...

*****Correction****************

4-Stars!!!
The manual says that it can only record in HD mode (which would be 1 1/2hr on a 1 gig MD disc), but for some reason I could change it to SLP/LP which lets you record many hours of recording on each disc. Its great...now!!!