**Big Computer Question**
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Posted on Dec 27, 2004 12:38 am
genllee
Member Since: Dec 18, 2004
What's up guys,
I own an English operating system. I want to buy a USB audio interface but the problem is that I live in Japan. So the store people tell me that installing the drivers will not work since they are all in Japanese. However I can just download the drivers and the software from the Tascam website so... do you think it's worth buying the hardware in Japan? Will it work? Or should I just have it shipped from America?
Thanks,
Mike
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ciinxMember
Since: May 15, 2004
Dec 27, 2004 12:59 am Getting it shipped I guess...
Im my opinion, almost everything sold in Japan was carefully tailored for Japs only (Handphone, DVD players, PDAs, Playstation 1 or 2 etc).
Example, in my country, we must crack the drivers for PS 1 or 2 if we bought them in Japan, but there will be too much risk of them getting haywired in the process.
I do own a Panasonic mobile phone made for the Japanese. For 2 years it has been only a good alarm clock.
Somebody may have had the opposite experience, but it wasn't me.
WaltChief Cook and Bottle WasherMember
Since: May 10, 2002
Dec 27, 2004 09:17 am I had a printer that only had a Russian print driver. The driver worked fine as far as operating the printer. All of driver text for setting the print features and cleaning the heads were in Russian. It also had a little routine that would announce 'now printing' and 'printing complete', of course in Russian. I loved it!
Dec 27, 2004 09:22 am Yeah, but the big difference is that asain characters are double-bit character sets, which makes it more difficult. However, the newer OS's are more unicode/multilingual tolerant, so I don't see why it would be such a problem. I have had a development machine I could display enlich, german, french and japanese on side by side without any real big issues as long as I had all the proper Windows language packs...
zekthedeadcowEat Spam before it eats YOU!!!Member
Since: May 11, 2002
Dec 27, 2004 09:46 am Whats the 50hz electric cycle going to do though?
I would assume it would work fine but you wouldn't be able to read the text....well you probably would :)
Dec 27, 2004 09:49 am thats true, there are the different power sources, I didn't think of that, but, the drivers itself, I dunno, I don't see a huge problem either.
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Dec 27, 2004 04:14 pm I would assume the card would accept the drivers regardless. I wouldnt think they are making differant driver sets, just differant language sets.
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Dec 27, 2004 04:52 pm And I hate spelling it, I never get it right.
And I changed it to just plain regardless. I am going to try and never use that word again. Now that I have seen the error of my ways.
Dec 28, 2004 02:27 pm The drivers are written in machine language. This is universal as far as harware interprits the instructions. The issue is the text that you will get with install programs, prompts and operational user interfaces. (the GUI) That said, if you can deal with the language, it is likely that your hardware will work fine with the japanese drivers. However, I think your right on in that you can download the drivers in the language you prefer from Tascam. Hardware is hardware is hardware.
