Louse76 on Feb/08/04 said:
I love my mp3 deck, but I would really like to have EVERYTHING I want on one disc at a decent bitrate, and this can be accomplished with a DVD unit. Pretty much all DVD units read MP3, right?
What kind of recommendations do you guys have in the range of under $300? Video quality etc is really not an issue at all, I don't see myself using it for video at all, at least not in the near future.
And I might as well post up what I have if anyone wants to know: Rockford Fosgate RFX9300, I suppose I would be wanting to trade or sell that if I found a nice DVD reading unit.
actually...you would be better off finding one that dosent read mp3's or has two heads like some of the home dvd players have...
there are some misconceptions on the all in one dvd players for the home....
as I remember it, dvd players started off with a single pickup and hardware based decoding...this means a separate board does the decoding of the video and another for the audio...this is the prefered method of decoding, and when I sold these I used to have a great analogy for it...
then if you remmber correctly prices got cheaper and cheaper till they were below 100 for a unit that would play, dvd, mp3, vcd, etc... while some of the higher end (well, even 1 step above) units were still using hardware based decoders, these units started using software based decoding, which ment a single chip ran a software program on top of it, (not too unlike...say..windows media player). this made the units cheap and easy to mass produce, all you had to do was hardcode a software program onto a chip and viola, you had a 50 dollar dvd player....
it would confuse the sh*t out of people who wondered why this piece of junk from china that was 99 "did more" than a more expensive unit from a more well know brand.
however the trade off is reduced quality...and I am not talking about the visible quality, I am talking about the 1% of people who actually knew what they were looking for, and/or actually cared. however inorder to keep both the quality and the features up, some manufacturers went to a dual pickup system which integrated both a hardware based dvd component, with a software based component for the audio and ancilliary video functions..kinda the best of both worlds....
anywyas I digress....chances are most dvd players will play mp3's....its just not logical to produce one that dosent, especially since the majority of consumers, cant and dont want to tell the diffence....
good luck and if you think I have any of this wrong, remeber I sold home video sh*t for 1.5 years but this was well over a year ago, and I admit I am a bit rusty on the subject since I ahve been out of it for so long....
