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Do all colours of the Sony HD5 suffer from cracked buttons?

Oct 1, 2005 3:37AM PDT

Ive heard a bit about the HD5 suffering from cracked buttons on the internet, and as im looking at purchasing a HD5 (in red) i would like to know if they all suffer from the crack problem, the problems ive seen seem to come from silver players (and one or two black ones) so does the red version suffer from this problem?? I hope not as i really really like this player! Thanks to all that reply

Andy

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HD5
Oct 3, 2005 12:23AM PDT

I think that Sony have admitted that it was a number of faulty batches that had buttons that cracked. Dont think its a huge problem.

I have just sent back an HD5 not for cracked buttons but simply because if you wanna use MP3 and NOT atrac then you CANNOT us the built in EQ presets!!!! how annoying is that.

I simply refuse to re-rip all 150 albums to atrac so I can use the EQ funtions!!!

Cheers

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HD5
Oct 3, 2005 2:03AM PDT

its good to hear its not a majour problem. cheers for that. ouch all 150 albums i think sony made this player too specific, open it up to more formats and they could have a real ipod beater!