Panasonic's Hard Drive Based Boombox
Panasonic has come out with a very cool boombox that brings the age old music player into the 21st century. For years boomboxes had either a single CD player or maybe a carousel that could house 3 or 5 discs. Well that was so 1992. Now-a-days its all about digial music and Panasonic has seen the light and released a hard drive based system.
So basically you put a CD into the single CD tray and rip it to the internal hard drive. It is shipping in two models, the 80 and 160GB versions meaning you can put a lot of music on here. As for what formats it can play it supports:
It also has a very nice look to it, making far more appealing then those clunkers of yesteryear. There is also support for your iPod so no need to feel like you have to rip you entire collection all over again. It is nice to see big companies releasing products like these. Sometimes you find that the big established companies don't take risks and just like to keep doing things the way they always have been. We can't imagine it is too long before the bulk of the major electronics companies home media products have some sort of internal storage, be it flash or hard drive.
Unfortunately this is slated only for Japan for now. We will keep you posted if we find out it is coming State side
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Posted by David Ficocello at September 13, 2007 8:45 PM
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