Sony's GIGA JUKE units store, rip and sync your music

If you like your music done up digital, but would rather leave a computer out of the equation, Sony's new GIGA JUKE HDD-based system and deck should fit the bill nicely. The NAS-50HDE bookshelf system (pictured) features an 80GB drive, with room for tracks transferred from your computer, ripped from CDs, or recorded from radio and analog sources. Ripping takes place at a commendable 16x pace, and the system can handle tagging duties as well. There's a 4.3-inch color display to browse through your tracks, and if you'd rather listen to your musics on the go, you can sync with your Sony Walkman, Walkman phone, PSP or other compatible MP3 player. The NAC-HD1E deck handles all those same duties, but loses the speakers, beefs up the audio componentry, and offers 250GB of storage. We wouldn't mind a bit of internet radio or PC audio streaming thrown into the mix, but it looks like Sony isn't interested. These two will be hitting Europe in May and June, respectively.

Gallery: Sony's GIGA JUKE units store, rip and sync your music

• 
• 
• 

[kjartan3 @ Mar 28th 2007 5:50PM]

that's all i need.... *another* place to put all my music. i say drop the hdd and get some PC/Mac streaming capabilities.

[Rick Lyon @ Mar 28th 2007 8:18PM]

No HD Radio ability? Yawn. Any radio that comes out this year and beyond should obviously have HD support. It's really a no brainer.

[Moby Disk @ Mar 28th 2007 8:38PM]

I wanted one of these back in 2000. Just a box where you insert a CD and it memorizes it. No fuss. No computer. Even your grandma can use it. Unfortunately today, I have a media PC that does this with iTunes, so I don't need it anymore. EVen so, my Grandma might.

[kadajawi @ Mar 29th 2007 8:21AM]

Bose had such a thing for quite a while. Ok, it is very expensive and you have to give up sound quality (comes with speakers etc.), but at least they had such a thing and I suppose it was easy to use.

That Sony does look nice though.

[Kyle K @ Mar 28th 2007 9:56PM]

Doesn't this contradict their entire Rootkit/DRM fiasco?

[nikster @ Mar 29th 2007 9:56AM]

make one where i can just slip in my iPod and we're talking. hmm.. guess that's not gonna happen... so this device is for all those people who don't have their CDs ripped already. and - without internet, where does it get the song/artist names from? does it have a CDDB built-in?

[Galley @ Mar 29th 2007 10:35AM]

I'll stick with Apple TV for my lossless audio streaming duties. This Sony product would've been great five years ago.

[David H @ Mar 29th 2007 2:39PM]

Does this mean that they'll sue themselves?

[Stranger @ Mar 29th 2007 4:58PM]

NAC-HD1E looks fairly cool. Although I would recommend the Hermstedt Hifidelio instead, it's fairly expensive but looks almost perfect.