Sony's GIGA Juke gets storage upgrade, Walkman dock, and hits stores in Europe this month
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Jun 2nd 2009 7:43PM
posted Jun 2nd 2009 7:43PM
Sony's certainly not letting up with its GIGA Juke line of home audio equipment. It's been nary a month since we heard from the company and now it's back with two more devices destined for Europe. Not much to get excited about here, but for an overall spec bump -- the NAS-SC500PK now pushes 100W and sports 160GB storage, support for up to five client players, a redesigned woofer (Terminator X & The Valley of Jeep Beets never sounded so raw, at least not in a basement rec room). The GIGA Juke NAS-E300HD holds steady at 60W with a more modest 80GB of storage. In addition, both feature a WM-PORT dock for that OLED Sony Walkman you've been lusting after. Look for the Juke in stores across Europe starting mid-June.
omg flattop!
Is Sony planning its own funeral or was this someones 'bright' idea to make something that creates a black hole in your living room?
I don't understand the point of this. The iPod classic has 120GB of storage and is a lot smaller. Is this just for people that have shelf space to fill or is there some other benefit?
It rips CDs to the hard disk.
Kinda like the Rio Central... which ripped CDs, burnt CDs, served up to 8 remote thin clients and sync'ed over USB with Rio MP3 players. But that was 7 years ago....
http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-media-receivers/rio-central/4505-6739_7-8723432.html
Eh.. now if this was a box that would rip/store on a hd movies (dvds/blu-rays) and you could access it all from a slick touch-screen remote, that would be kinda cool! I'm sure there are other ways to do this though.. and probably for less money that what Sony would charge. Just a thought though.
What's a Walkman?
it's the reason why your iPod is around! ;)
The device at the upper right hand corner of the picture looks like a Buffalo WCR-G54 Router.
http://www.buffalo-asia.com/cgi-bin/products/detail.cgi?country=ph&code=4&id=206
I absolutely love my Walkman. In my opinion, the Walkman sound quality trumps any MP3 player I've ever heard. If Apple wants to convince me they'll have to let me set my own EQ settings rather than basic presets. Now the only downside of the Walkman is the widespread support that Apple has for the I-pod (docks, etc.). I'm glad to see Sony's actually including support for their own product in their devices, something that should have happened a long time ago. :P
I thought I was the only person in the world who owned a copy of Terminator X & The Valley Of The Jeep Beets. I guess I could still be, but at least others are aware it exists.
I think the headline should be: Atrac, the codec that refuses to die. =D
Lossless ATRAC is kind of good format size wise...
Too bad you have to use the crapatisc SonicStage or whatever its name.
It's still successful in Japan for some reason.
Thats "beats" not "beets". I highly doubt Terminator X even eats vegetables.