Sony Hard Drive Recorder for Cars

blues5150 writes "Sony has introduced the Sony MEX-1HD. This is an in-dash CD/Receiver with a 10 giagbyte hardrive built in to rip CD's at 8X speed. It also has an auxilliary input that allows connection of an MP3 player, tape, MD player, and/or an optional Sony plug-and-play XM Satellite Radio tuner. The price is a little steep at $1,499.99, but it's still nice to see a major car audio manufacturer delivering what the public wants."

Re:Neat

[Matthaeus]

Not at all. http://www.mp3car.com

I run one of these systems myself. As long as you mount the hard drive properly (so that the heads swing on a vertical axis), there's not much problem.

I'm confused

[adam613]

Doesn't Sony have a music division which is part of the RIAA? And doesn't the RIAA make a concerted effort to stop people from ripping CDs? So how can Sony make a device to do just that? Is one division going to sue the other or something?

How about Radio

[Launch]

I'd like to see the product rip radio as well... Doesn't seem like any techknolgical difficulties... Legal boundaries?

Why you ask... Have you ever been listing to the radio and you hear a song that you like, but you have no idea who it's by or what the song title is... and then you try to find out from a friend who might be a little more musicly inclined, and you are forced to stoop yourself to try to sing a line or so from the song while all your friends laugh at you... Well it would be cool if you could just record a clip of it and play it for your friends...

How about contest phone numbers, I have a hard time remembering those... it would be cool to just record it and play it back.

Or how about you are just a cheap lazy bastard and you want to listen to the top 40 over and over again without buying any CDs or going through the pain of downloading them.