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Title: Sony PCM D100 menus
Post by: WiFiJeff on May 31, 2016, 02:33:15 PM
Massdrop sent me a PCM D100 with Chinese language menus (the bums).  Does anyone know how (or if) you can get the machine to show menus in English? 

Jeff
Title: Re: Sony PCM D100 menus
Post by: H₂O on May 31, 2016, 02:55:22 PM
how much was it?

https://www.massdrop.com/buy/sony-pcm-d100-portable-recorder/talk

From here it looks like someone says you can't change the Massdropped "Japanese" version to english - doesn't go into detail
Title: Re: Sony PCM D100 menus
Post by: WiFiJeff on May 31, 2016, 03:06:49 PM
That was my post on Massdrop.  The original thread on TS when the D100 came out said the Japanese version couldn't be changed, then was corrected without any indication of how to do the upgrade (there is a reference to the Japanese version of the manual, but I can't find anything in English).
Title: Re: Sony PCM D100 menus
Post by: aaronji on May 31, 2016, 03:35:21 PM
Maybe this helps? http://helpguide.sony.net/icd/pcmd100/v1/en/contents/TP0000226002.html (http://helpguide.sony.net/icd/pcmd100/v1/en/contents/TP0000226002.html)

Title: Re: Sony PCM D100 menus
Post by: WiFiJeff on May 31, 2016, 05:34:41 PM
Thanks, it is in the right direction (but because the display was in Chinese to begin with, the nice self-explanatory stuff was not interpretable in English).  Another unhappy Massdrop customer, who complained three weeks ago, was prodded by my email to him earlier today to find an explanation that worked (like, "select suitcase icon, then pick third alternative on screen").  Massdrop never did come up with a fix.

Jeff
Title: Re: Sony PCM D100 menus
Post by: beatkilla on May 31, 2016, 06:35:36 PM
Try asking sony pro audio,they always have gotten back to my questions in a timely manner.
Title: Re: Sony PCM D100 menus
Post by: beatkilla on May 31, 2016, 06:52:47 PM
Also on pg 10 on this boards pcm d 100 thread there is talk and some youtube links saying it is possible,check those out.
Title: Re: Sony PCM D100 menus
Post by: morst on June 01, 2016, 05:38:06 PM
try asking a person who can read Chinese to help you set it to English!? I bet you can find someone at a chinese restaurant if there is no school near you... offer to buy them an appetizer & a TsingTao if they get it working for you!