HP CD Player Reviews

"The PM-1 uses 8-cm CDs--mini-CDs that hold 185MB of content--and is one of the smallest 8-cm-format CD players we've seen...This smartly designed...There's no case, and the unit's paint scratches easily....Probably can fit 60 songs at a lower bit rate if you don't care about the song quality...The package includes three blank mini-CD-R disks, Musicmatch Jukebox and Windows Media Player, and neck headphones...The PM-1 uses rechargeable AAA batteries..." read more »

"Hewlett-Packard (HP) introduced the Digital Entertainment Center de100c in 2001 (you can read a review of this product, "HP Digital Entertainment Center de100c," at http://www.connectedhomemag.com/audio/articles/index.cfm?articleid=24111...The HP de100c uses your TV set as its display device and lets you play CDs, rip thousands of tracks to a local hard disk, burn your own CD mixes?both as audio CDs and MP3 data CDs?and access Internet radio...Despite having built-in networking, the HP de100c doesn't make sharing or using your existing digital media easy because it can't directly play media stored elsewhere on your network...The HP de100c is HP's attempt to branch out of the computer and peripherals market into consumer electronics...Despite the AIVA's computer ancestry and the unit's ability to share its content with other network systems, at press time Interact-TV representatives weren't sure whether the final product would be able to access other digital media on a home network..." read more »