[?] sonys NW-A910 multi player

[Tatsujin]

i wanna purchase myself a A910 player, but the software of this little almighty f*cker seems to work only on JPN OS. since i have only english or german OS around, does someone know of how to get this problem solved out without using a JPN OS?

http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2007/09/sony-a910-series-with-digital-tv-3.php

many thanks in adv.

[SignOfZeta]

My recent experiences with a PSP have shown me that Sony's MD-era format firewall is still firmly in place, only now with video making this sort of thing extra stupid harder than it every was with audio, and I fear for you, really, in trying to get a similar thing going on something 1/1000th as popular as a PSP. I'm convinced Sony just doesn't want us watching mobile video, even on a mobile video viewing device we just bought from them.

Handbrake can made DVDs into PSP-usable movies no problem, but trying to convert anything else is just hell. Recent PSP firmware updates have actually made the PSP less compatible with some video formats. Yes, that's right, stuff that would run on 2.5 is now broken in 4.x. How's that for progress?

For me mobile video will be iPod all the way for the foreseeable future since Quicktime does trouble-free, iPod-compatible, perfect conversions every time from almost anything with the greatest of ease.

[Tatsujin]

yeah.. i hate sony for their restrictions and uber complicated software, but i love them for the best products on market (only apple comes close, the rest is rubbish).

that lil' stinker is small, looks great (as for my taste a mp3 player should look like) and it can do a lot of things, especially the 1seg thing here in japan.

i will try to fool the sonicstage SW to run on a foreigner OS or have to parallel install a JPN OS on my PC?!?

any advises to do something like that?

[SignOfZeta]

Why not just run XP in Japanese? As an OSX user region/language in an OS is a thing of the past for me, but I thought Windows was that way too now. Do they still keep things separated? How about in Vista?

[Tatsujin]

1. i don't have an JPN XP for legal to use.
2. i don't know anything about vista yet.

so i probably install a JPN XP on one of my offline Notebooks, just for the simple purpose to use this stinky software

[SuperDeadite]

In Windows XP go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Settings -> Advanced Tab.  There will be a box that says "Language for non Unicode programs"  Switch it to Japanese, apply, and reboot.  This has allowed me to run all Japanese software I've picked up here.  If this doesn't work, then their must be some kind of Sony made DRM...

EDIT: If you've already installed the software.  Uninstall everything first.  Then switch to the Japanese code and install again.  What often happens is the Japanese file names don't copy correctly if you don't switch the code support first and it messes up the install.

[guyjin]

Sony software sucks. I had to deal with sony's NetMD software for a while, but it was so awful I eventually stopped.

[MissaFX]

I would just install english windows 98 or 2000 to a seperate partition (98 really likes to be on a primary partition) and then just run sonicstage out of it myself.