Sony in-dash unit rips CDs on the fly

It sounds great driving playing your favorite cds and while you listens they got ripped `on the fly` to a hd in you car and can play them back from it.

We have had MP3 players for the car for a while now and generally they work on one of two principles. The first and most common is the unit with a CD player that reads MP3 encoded CDs like Kenwood's Z828. The second is a unit like the Rio Car that has an internal hard drive to store music. When you want to load tunes you remove the unit from the vehicle and attach it to your computer to transfer music.

The Sony MEX-HD1 is the first unit we have come across that can do this, an idea that makes perfect sense with respect to consumer convenience. The user slips a standard CD into the head unit, selects which tracks they want ripped, hits the button and the chosen songs are compressed on the fly and saved to the drive. Eventually the CDs can stay home as overtime your entire collection of music is transferred to the unit.

"This new hard drive head unit offers consumers the latest technology to provide convenience and customization in the car". said Steve Haber, senior vice president of marketing for mobile electronics at Sony Electronics. " It's another step towards personalization on demand".

The MEX-HD1 ships in April and will list for a healthy $1,500. That's pretty high for an MP3 car stereo, even by Sony's premium pricing standards.

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Source: Mp3newswire