February 5, 2002

New commodity

The hard drive audio recorder is put on the market by can the record of 500 CD or more, and the enjoyment like the juke.

Hard drive audio recorder ‘HAR-D1000'

The Sony marketing (The president:Kei Kodera and headquarters:(Inc.)Tokyo port district) adopts “ATRAC3" of the voice compression technology, and puts hard drive audio recorder ‘HAR-D1000' only for music by which about the maximum 600 hours and CD500 pieces or more (For 74-minute CD) can be recorded and be reproduced on the market to the hard drive of 40GB.

Type name	Sale day	Hope retail price	First monthly production
Hard drive audio recorder 『HAR-D1000』	February 21	Open price	1500 total

The user who worries because of the control of the disk is not few. increase the number of sheets of had CD(CD number of sheets average of individual possession:About 100 pieces and Sony melodies)
The CD player and the hard drive can be installed, and ‘HAR-D1000' be reproduced by managing the tune recorded from CD in the hard drive by the album name, the artist name, and the name of a song, and calling it when it is always favorite.
The music data can be recorded at the twice velocity, and only favorite tunes are collected, and the reproducing program setting is also possible from among the recorded tune. It can be had to enjoy it by a high-speed access only of the hard drive like the juke.

Main feature of - ‘HAR-D1000'

The hard drive of 40GB is installed.

A CD player and a mass hard drive can be installed in a slim main body, and CD500 favorite music be managed as an album for about the maximum 600 hours. Pleasant music life can be had to be enjoyed in new shape of the hard drive audio.

2. The hard drive of the 静音(unknown word) type is adopted.

The noise by the contact of mechanism is decreased by using the fluid (oil) for the bearing of the motor of the hard drive. In addition, a further low noise and the low vibration have been achieved by putting it in a special case to use the soundproofing material.

3. ATRAC3 which achieves the high pitched sound quality is adopted though high compression.

The voice data can be compressed into about 1/10 of CD like the high pitched sound quality, and 132 It is possible to forward it to the hard drive from CD by the bit rate of kbps.

- “ATRAC3" is a trademark of the Sony Ltd..

The function of the recording of the CD synchronized of 4.2 modes is installed.

It is possible to select it according to two kinds of "High-speed mode" at the twice velocity which can be recorded at "Normal mode" recorded while listening to music and half time.

5. Play list reproduction function

Only the tune to which [it] often listens in the tune which has already been recorded can be edited, and the thing to which [it] listens like one album be done. This play list can do things preserved up to ten, and can enjoy music as a Mey album. For instance, tunes collected in classification by artist can be made as a list of one. The play lists can be registered up to 400 respectively.

6. Variegated retrieval function

Each artist name, the album name, and the name of a song can be written in all recorded tunes as information. The phrase in a typical tune is set as a highlight only by ten seconds in "Retrievals by keyword" which can be retrieved automatically only by the input of the key word by using this information and albums, and "Highlight scanning function" retrieved while listening only to the part one after another is installed. It is possible to call it quickly to listen to the tune which wants to listen from 500 albums.

7. For CD TEXT

When the correspondence software is recorded to the hard drive, the information is written at the same time because [it] corresponds to “CD TEXT" from which the album name, the artist name, and the name of a song are written in CD beforehand as information.

- Main specification

	HAR-D1000
CD player	Frequency characteristic	5〜20,000Hz±0.5dB
	Signal-Noise ratio	95dB or more※
	All high note wave warp	0.005% or less※
	(*wau*) (*furattah*)	*** As follows <measurement limit (±0.001%W.PEAK)>※
Hard drive	Record capacity	40GB
	Recording method	ATRAC3
	Forwarding rate	132kbps
	The maximum recording time	For about 600 hours
	Number of maximum albums	500 pieces
	Number of maximum tunes	20,000
	Near album Number of maximum trucks	400(Up to 20,000 trucks in total).
Commonness	Input terminal	Digital	One optical system
		Analogue	One system
	Output terminal	Analogue	One system
	Power-supply voltage	AC100V､50/60Hz
	Consumption electric power	22W
	Externals size	W430×H82.5×D285mm
	Mass	About 3.9kg