DVD recorder with hard drives - can they play mp3's from the hard drive?

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 20

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  29/04/05 - 09:19 #2

  There are several hi-fi audio hard disk recorders on the market ... here are a couple of links to two of the better looking ones ... only problem at the moment is that its hard to find one with a disk larger than 80Gig which is fine if you are going to encode everything in MP3 but if you want to use a loss-less encoding format you wont get that many CD's stored.
  
  http://www.sony.co.uk/ShowProduct.do?site=odw_en_GB&category=HFC+Hard+Drive+Recorder&product=HAR-LH500
  
  http://www.hermstedt.com/english/hifidelio/hifidelio.html
  
  Of the two above the Sony one has the better looks but the hermstedt one has a much more impressive feature list and includes wireless so you can connect it to your home network and push/pull mp3s from your PC.
  
  I do believe that cambridge audio are bringing out a similar product with a 160Gig HD but its not out yet and there is very little detail about it on their website.
  
  Regards,
  
  Andy.

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• alanwarwic Posts: 28,396

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  29/04/05 - 14:11 #3

  this may be the item you want.
  http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?rb=7159932741&action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=82923
  Bear in mind that it has a Hard drive but no DVD recorder but at £150 is somthing of a bargain, especially considering its rarity.

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• Dan27 Posts: 9,652

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  29/04/05 - 14:54 #4

  BrainDrain, to answer your question, I dont think there is a DVD Recorder out there that can play MP3s directly from its HD. I believe they can only play MP3s directly from a DVD disc.
  
  I think the closest that comes close is probably the new Xbox when it comes out, the HD version of the Xbox 360 is supposed to be a full media center, which allows MP3 storage along with DVDs etc. Thats certainly how I am going to store my ripped music.
  
  In the mean time, I think the only way of having a set up that you have asked for is to have a portable MP3 player connected to the Aux port on a Hi Fi. Not ideal, but a lot more easily manageable than having to fiddle through several hundred CDs to find what one you want to play!

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• phelings Posts: 3,260

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  29/04/05 - 21:45 #5

  Never been able to record MP3 onto DVD,but my Pioneer recorder and player both play MP3 from CD

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