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Philips HDD100 - Digital player - HDD 15 GB - WMA, MP3 | 
 enlarge | Brand: Philips
Category: CE
Buy Refurbished: $149.99
Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 8951
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 5.8 x 2.3
MPN: HDD100
Model: HDD100
UPC: 037849937631
EAN: 0037849937631
ASIN: B0000C4LNZ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Factory sealed white box with 90-day manufacturer's warranty, superb sound in style, large 15 GB storage capacity for thousands of songs, a must buy!!!
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Product Description
Philips HDD100 is a recording audio jukebox. You can record directly to MP3 files via built-in microphone and digital or analog line-in connection. You can play MP3 files as well as Windows Media Audio files. Double action search buttons allow easy speed control when scrolling through large libraries. You can choose to move through your playlist one song at a time or just press and hold down a little harder to SuperScroll swiftly to your desired track. Depending on the genre, the player can automatically select the desired equalizer setting. And with 4 traditional presets: Rock, Pop, Jazz and Classic, you can easily tag your music by genre. So the next time you play a particular track, it will instantly recognize your chosen setting.HDD100 supports the USB 2.0 standard enabling the speedy transfer of data between USB connected devices at 480 kbps. It is also backwards compatible with the old USB 1.1 standard, so a USB 1.1 computer port will work with HDD100 using the same by packed cable and connectors. HDD100 connects through USB to be used as a spare portable HDD storage via Windows Explorer. Large storage capacity allows you to pack an entire world of music and data into your HDD100.
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 Finally got it to work but wouldn't recommend to anyone May 6, 2006
GJDude
I bought this mp3 player couple of weeks ago and yesterday I finally got it to work. The player itself looks and works great but its the software that sucks. The DMM software is awfully slow to initialize and takes ages to transfer your music. If you have couple of GB worth of songs in your player, trying to upload more songs can take such a long time(I am talking around 10 minutes for the software to initialize). On top of that it crashed on me so many times, specially when trying to transfer larger chunks of music files. The player's database sometimes can get corrupt as well if your PC crashes while the transfer is on process and when that happens, your songs will mysteriously vanish from the playlist and to find them, you will have to dig up very deep in the player to find them. Your song names will also disappear so you just have to listen to renamed numbered files and figure out if thats the song you were trying to listen to. There are some alternative softwares out there but they have their own flaws as well. One does not have user friendly interface and other does not support WMAs. I probably spent 2 days if I add up all the hours I put just to transfer my songs. I don't recommend this to anybody specially if you are looking for a player that works painlessly.
 Decent product, but too many glitches November 8, 2005
Trevor Cotton (Cornwall, England)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I would really agree with most of the reviews written here, while it is a great sleek looking MP3 player, if I were to buy another one today I wouldn't buy this again. Generally it works fine, I have no problem with the sound quality, and the 20GB version, which I own, is more than big enough to store all my music. There are however several minor problems with it.
Firstly it is prone to freezing up every now and then, there is a reset mode by pressing two buttons, but it is annoying and often the battery ends up much lower than it was previously. The battery life itself is also an issue, if your running it constantly it does actually last for many hours, however if you turn it off and back on again repeatedly it loses power quickly. Sometimes it also drops from 4 bars on the battery to 1 or 2 for no apparent reason.
Though I have had no major problems with it, there are too many minor glitches to recommend this over other players on the market.
Peace of sh*t Poor Battery and OS October 21, 2005
A. KANSAL (Providence, RI)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
my battery lasts less than 40 mins then dies.
the software is useless and philips provides NO warranty
Nice system, yet too many minor flaws September 5, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I honestly think this system looks visually better then the iPod. As a matter of fact, this system uses a 2 color LCD screen. It is exactly like a game gear system screen or a small portable hand held TV screen except the actual Philip's hardware on this unit only permits 2 colors. However the iPod is only a regular Dot Matrix screen with the regular green back light screen (kinda like your watch.)
With that aside what irritates me the most is the freakin' software provided. You can't drag and drop files on to you unit. You have to use this slow program provided and ONLY this program. Perhaps most of your mp3 selection you cant use because philips created a thing that prevents you from downloading certain audio files that have been encrypted on the unit (something to do with Digital Rights Managament). Of course, this should not be much of Philip's concern if they want to stay in the audio business unless hassled by the government.
Also one would think if you have a 20gig HD on your jukebox with a nice quality screen, that I'm sure they could reserve a couple MB for games and programs. Think about it, perhaps a calculator, calender, about 2 dozen games (ya know, tetris, solitaire, frogger)and perhaps a screen saver - several of them - for viewing pleasure while sitting on that chair of yours. OK, now I'm just pushing it, since a lot of companies leave out just the simple essentials - the simple CHEAP essentials - that could give them better leverages over the competition.
Any who, the unit's own software is uncomfortably slow. It was a cool design to add animated menus and so forth, but if they move 2 frames per second, then what is the use. The fast forward doesn't fast forward really, it merely seems to distort the audio while it is moving 1/2 a second faster. But perhaps I'm picky, but, It would have been nice to separate the Play/Pause button from the Power button. How do you pause without powering off, or at least stop taking off certain needed buttons for aesthetic reasons.
But other then that, this is a fine piece of machinery.
O yeah, why do they always package the rather expensive audio players with cheap crappy headphones?
 Excellent gadget, great looks, smooth display August 20, 2004
oviroa (New York, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have to admit, the DMM software it came with is clumsy and slow, but it never froze on me. I am also using the Sveta Portable software which you can dowload from here: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t= 4628
This program allows you to do drag and drop in both directions and organize the player's playlists and songs.
The sound is great, (remember, junk in - junk out, so bad rips will sound bad as in any other player), it's small, light, great looking and sooo easy to use. I am impressed and really surprised about what other people wrote here.
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