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Dension DMP3 MP3 Player Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the a-thousand-hours-but-no-ogg dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "MP3 Newswire has a review of the Dension DMP3, an MP3 player for the car that you purchase sans storage media. It sell for $249 and takes a standard IDE/ATA hard disk. With 100 GB selling for $200 these days the DMP3 gives you a ton of capacity for $450. The player itself is pretty basic, but I like the way they use a mobile rack frame to handle fast file transfers rather than use USB to spoonfeed tunes at a snails pace. Dension has also made the internal specs public including the playlist (.ply), logo (.lce), message (.msg) formats as well as the communications serial line protocol for adding third party devices like a mouse. Overall a neat toy, but most of all very reasonably priced for those who like to rip their tunes at the highest compression rates."

6 of 167 comments (clear)

  1. What about HD wear? by seinman · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wouldn't hitting potholes, speed bumps, etc. put undue wear on the HD workings? It seems to me like a CD-based system would be more appropriate for a car. I mean, how long is it gonna be before your drive crashes?

  2. usb at a snail's pace? by vena · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Exactly how many songs are you planning on listening to at once??

  3. Re:Wow, and cheaper in Canada too! by Fletch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's a savings of 21$ per GB.

    not it's not. but i suppose it would be if the $21/GB tariff proposal ever becomes law.

  4. What is with the temperature rating by Bishop · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This thing looked alright until I found this little spec:

    Operating temperature: 0 - +50 C
    So it is basically useless anywhere with a season called winter.
  5. Mp3 player like a PC? by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I like the idea of 'build your own MP3 player with standard parts.' This product is the start of that market. It would have value long after 100 gigs seems too small.

    I bet in a year or two, they'll have a variety of different screens and interfaces you can put on these doohickeys, and you can totally customize your player. I'd like to design my own interface for it, for example, to look like Apple's Aqua interface.

    Hmm... how long before these evolve into laptops? Heh

    --
    "Derp de derp."
  6. Re:Many players not compatible with CD-RW by swb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A buck each for CDR media? What?

    The last batch I bought was a spindlepack of 100 for $17 at Microcenter. Even Office Despot sells 100 packs for $34.

    Before you complain about the quality of cheap CDRs, I have been using these mostly in my car for the past year and I'm brutal with them. They get flung around the interior, sat on in the passenger seat, broiled in the summer sun, frozen in the winter, jammed 3-4 at a time into a single visor slot and I have yet to have one go bad.

    I'm sure they're not national archive quality, but for $0.17/ea who cares.