Sony's NAS-M7HD NetJuke
posted October 21st 2005 3:25PM
A new NetJuke minicomponent system from Sony is on the horizon, called the "NAS-M7HD." It features an integrated 40GB hard drive, but of greater interest would be the 4.3-inch color LCD on the face. Using this screen, you'll be able to search through tracks, get information about songs currently playing on FM radio, and purchase CDs. You can also use it for transferring songs to a portable audio player; the PSP and other modern Sony Network Walkman products are supported thanks to the device's integrated USB port and Memory Stick Duo slot. But for some reason, you can't transfer ATRAC3 files to a Memory Stick PRO Duo. Playback of ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, and MP3 files are supported from the hard drive, from a USB device, via the Ethernet connection, and a few combinations in between. Sony also points out that this is the world's first minicomponent system with both a hard drive and a MiniDisc slot, also making it the first such device that can transfer files from hard drive to MiniDisc without use of a PC.
the real question at hand...how much is this going to set back my future child's college fund. lol
Err...where'd the post about Flock go? Right before this post in the feed, there's a post about porting Firefox extensions to Flock, but the link now redirects to the engadget.com url and the post has vanished. Maybe the post migrated somewhere else?
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Wow, i *might* get this if the specs were nice (considering i have my Klipschs and an okay, not cheap, stereo, now)the real selling point would be another reason for Sony to get people to update, a remote control for this (or other stereos/PCs) considering this stereo has the same screen size as the PSP... and PSP v.2.5 can do the streaming video via TVanywhere, so i dont think theres anything making it hard, how cool tho, walking around listenin to a high end stereo with a bunch of uncompressed files and if i wanna browse the tracks i pull the friendly big screen remote out of my pocket or off the coffee table... man. Time for me to get Sonos :p
SONY, WHY did u not put a Hi-MD drive in this thing!!!??????
pricing?
Does this mean that the minidisc is really not going away?? :-D
pricing?
Live long and prosper, MD!
MD was a good idea but it died a long time ago but sony still has it on life support. Come on Sony just pull the plug already. At least MD was loved by some unlike the ATRAC3 format.
@skmetal7
Why? So they could charge you again 6 months from now when they come out with the Hi-MD version, of course.