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Sony Memory Stick Media Digital Voice Recorder with 128MB MS Duo and Adaptor (ICD-BM1)
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💾128MB Memory
🔊High Quality Sound
🔒Durable Aluminum Body
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🎤 Capture Every Word with Clarity!
AMPLE STORAGE - Never run out of space with 128MB removable memory stick duo.
ROBUST DESIGN - Crafted with a durable aluminum body for long-lasting use.
SEAMLESS OPERATION - Experience effortless dictation with the slide control switch.
CRYSTAL CLEAR AUDIO - Utilizes Sony's LPEC CODEC for superior sound quality.
PORTABLE CONVENIENCE - Compact design makes it easy to carry for on-the-go professionals.
The Sony Memory Stick Media Digital Voice Recorder (ICD-BM1) is a high-performance dictation machine featuring a user-friendly slide control switch, 128MB removable memory, and a durable aluminum body, ensuring both portability and longevity. With Sony's advanced LPEC CODEC, it delivers exceptional sound quality, making it the perfect tool for professionals who value clarity and reliability.
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3.1
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M**X
blind operation is possible, easy pause, shifting sliding record switch. Pay attention not to re-record over your recording.
Now I have used it for several days, a couple hours per day and I am not sure I like it anymore. I use it for a specific purpose: I dictate my youtube podcasts as I walk the dogs in the dark and I pause often to think. I prefer no to look at the screen and rely on beeps - to hear the beeps better and to hear my voice better I wear headphones. It seems to work.CONS: every pause is recorded as a relatively loud click (sliding click). Not unpleasant but it clearly indicates the break in the time. I wish it didn't record the click.CONS: initially, by default, it was really easy to make a mistake and overwrite what you just have recorded - by default the skip rocking controller is located next to the record slider and it was very easy to press it by mistake and rerecord over. It flashes a silent warning on the screen for 3 sec, but if you are not looking at the screen you are screwed. Now, I found a setting which allows to disable it, but still it manages somehow to skip back to the beginning on rewind-review (slider shifted all the way down) and then again there is a danger of losing the recording. Makes me angry. Otherwise the technology was very close to being perfect, but this flaw killed it. No wonder they took it off the production. This was a close to perfect design, but they didn't polish the interface to perfection. What a shame. Now we have tons of voice recorders which require that you look at them as you dictate, which is very inefficient and shouldn't be necessary.Now I have downgraded my review from 5 stars to 3 stars and ordered a modern recorder. Will see if it is any better.PROS: It feels good in the hand, some buttons and the shifter are pleasant on touch and reasonably convenient.CONS: I had to affix the battery cover with a sticker, it opens and loses batteries. The charger makes noise and doesn't seem to charge the rechargeable batteries.MY OLD REVIEWLove it! Good sound quality and the ability to operate blindly, without looking at it at all. It is perfect for recording at night or with poor vision or without any vision. I like to walk my dogs and record serious dictations for YouTube while taking pauses to think. I was looking for a dictaphone to operate blindly and take pauses and not worry that the dictation will be lost or would go off sync. This one is perfect for that. I don't think there is anything like this one on Amazon - the digital ones require the user to look at it every time, the tape ones have poor sound quality.shifting sliding record switch - record /pause/ play/rewind. Easy return and rerecord. Easy and convenient delete.Cons: I bought a used one and had to seal the battery compartment with a sticky tape.CONS!!! - It records in MONSTROUS sony proprietary format MSV, it took some effort to figure out how to convert it:Here is a converter [...]Seems to be free for personal use.It also required downloading a sony plugin here [...]Once installed, the conversion went fine.Surprisingly the Sony memory stick plugged in the laptop memory stick opening just fine. It seemed different, but apparently fits in fine.CONS: the sound of the slider switch sound is recorded and bothers me. I don't want to edit it out.... So every time i pause the recording there is a lound slide click sound...PS: The NCH software trial expired and I found SONY software to convert MSV files: [...]Sound Organizer Ver.1.6, from SONY site, free. It is clumsy but works.
D**N
Slide switch for serious dictators
Microcassette portable dictating machines all have a single slide switch for Record/Stop/Playback/Rewind. Long experience has shown that is the best control mechanism for actually doing dictation vs. recording something. Most of the Sony and other brand portable flash-based recorders have buttons scattered all over them, making dictation a real pain. This model is the rare exception. It's not built quite as much like a tank as traditional microcassette units but it's lots more rugged than most of Sony's and other brand's "consumer" recorders. My major complaint is that the "insert" function is not as easy to get to as it should be, considering that is one of the most important features of a flash-based dictating machine.
W**N
sony recorder ICD-BM1
Good solid construction. Appears to be metal. Came with 128mb card, usb cord and disk. Works fine. My previous one lasted many years with daily use. Works on AAA batteries.
A**H
Fairly Well Made Recorder BUT Digital File Format is USELESS
I have used Sony dictation recorders for several years. This recorder was my last purchase. Subsequent to purchasing the recorder, we switched to MacBook Pros. Unfortunately, the file format (MSV) used by Sony will only play well with PC based computers. We've search high and low for conversion software, but it does not exist.We are running into this problem more and more with SONY products. I used to be a big SONY fan, but I'm finding more and more compatibility problems with SONY products whether it be a digital voice recorder, Blue-Ray player, or whatever. I used to always purchase SONY over competitive products even if I had to pay a premium. THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN ANYMORE.SONY is now off my list of "go to" products. SONY needs to learn to play well with other formats, vendors, etc. Too bad because SONY used to have a great reputation.
E**O
durable, high sensitivity, excellent sound quality
I made my ICD-BM1 provide yeoman's service over a period of one and a half years. It was used to record conversations for about 10 hours every day over that time. I used four rechargeable AAA batteries and a few
Sony 128 MB Memory Sticks (MSH-128)
as well as one
Lexar Media 256MB Memory Stick Select (MS256-253)
. The sound data was then loaded into my PC, where frequently I would analyze it with the included Digital Voice Editor software. Both the recorder and the software never failed to deliver. The microphone sensitivity was excellent, picking up even remote conversations. I never used it for dictation, so I never took it out of the CONF (high sensitivity) mode.The menu system within the recorder provides a wide range of possibilities for manipulating the sound files, and the included software is also very capable. Some of the reviews have described problems with this software. I was running it on a
Sony PCV-RS620G
(Windows XP Home SP3), which had a full contingent of media card readers in the front. So I never needed to use the USB cable at all; all data transfer was done by inserting the Memory Stick card directly into the PC. The software never demonstrated any instability or defect.My only complaint about this recorder is that Sony should instead store its sound files in a non-proprietary format (e.g. MP3 or WAVE). But then Sony has a reputation for making everything proprietary, so I guess that's too much to ask. (Try adding non-Sony hardware components to their PCs to see what I mean.)
A**R
excellent product, could use some design improvements to be ...
excellent product, could use some design improvements to be perfect (battery compartment case cover hinges wear out, need to use tape to hold closed) but all in all a terrific tool
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Ravi S.
I loved the variety of products available. Will definitely shop again.
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Khalid Z.
Great experience from order to delivery. Highly recommended!
This is Sonys only professional hand held digital recorder. 10/03 Dragon naturally speaking preferred ScanSoft voice recognition company gave this recorder its highest accuracy scale a 5 Dragon. Out of 22 recorders this was the highest.
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I prefer no to look at the screen and rely on beeps - to hear the beeps better and to hear my voice better I wear headphones. It seems to work.CONS: every pause is recorded as a relatively loud click (sliding click). Not unpleasant but it clearly indicates the break in the time. I wish it didn't record the click.CONS: initially, by default, it was really easy to make a mistake and overwrite what you just have recorded - by default the skip rocking controller is located next to the record slider and it was very easy to press it by mistake and rerecord over. It flashes a silent warning on the screen for 3 sec, but if you are not looking at the screen you are screwed. Now, I found a setting which allows to disable it, but still it manages somehow to skip back to the beginning on rewind-review (slider shifted all the way down) and then again there is a danger of losing the recording. Makes me angry. Otherwise the technology was very close to being perfect, but this flaw killed it. No wonder they took it off the production. This was a close to perfect design, but they didn't polish the interface to perfection. What a shame. Now we have tons of voice recorders which require that you look at them as you dictate, which is very inefficient and shouldn't be necessary.Now I have downgraded my review from 5 stars to 3 stars and ordered a modern recorder. Will see if it is any better.PROS: It feels good in the hand, some buttons and the shifter are pleasant on touch and reasonably convenient.CONS: I had to affix the battery cover with a sticker, it opens and loses batteries. The charger makes noise and doesn't seem to charge the rechargeable batteries.MY OLD REVIEWLove it! Good sound quality and the ability to operate blindly, without looking at it at all. It is perfect for recording at night or with poor vision or without any vision. I like to walk my dogs and record serious dictations for YouTube while taking pauses to think. I was looking for a dictaphone to operate blindly and take pauses and not worry that the dictation will be lost or would go off sync. This one is perfect for that. I don't think there is anything like this one on Amazon - the digital ones require the user to look at it every time, the tape ones have poor sound quality.shifting sliding record switch - record /pause/ play/rewind. Easy return and rerecord. Easy and convenient delete.Cons: I bought a used one and had to seal the battery compartment with a sticky tape.CONS!!! - It records in MONSTROUS sony proprietary format MSV, it took some effort to figure out how to convert it:Here is a converter [...]Seems to be free for personal use.It also required downloading a sony plugin here [...]Once installed, the conversion went fine.Surprisingly the Sony memory stick plugged in the laptop memory stick opening just fine. It seemed different, but apparently fits in fine.CONS: the sound of the slider switch sound is recorded and bothers me. I don't want to edit it out.... So every time i pause the recording there is a lound slide click sound...PS: The NCH software trial expired and I found SONY software to convert MSV files: [...]Sound Organizer Ver.1.6, from SONY site, free. It is clumsy but works."},{"@type":"Review","reviewRating":{"@type":"Rating","ratingValue":"4.0"},"author":{"@type":"Person","name":"D***N"},"datePublished":"Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2005","name":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n Slide switch for serious dictators\n \n","reviewBody":"Microcassette portable dictating machines all have a single slide switch for Record/Stop/Playback/Rewind. Long experience has shown that is the best control mechanism for actually doing dictation vs. recording something. Most of the Sony and other brand portable flash-based recorders have buttons scattered all over them, making dictation a real pain. This model is the rare exception. 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