What will make a product like this commercially viable is if it had an onboard CD player which could encode the MP3's directly from disk. If people didn't have to dock into their computer at all...just insert disk and its encoded and stored.. Then it would be dummified enough to sell to the masses. Oh...it has to be under $1000 too.

Like this?. It meets those demands in all ways except cost. People expect this to be magicially cheep for some reason. (I suffer this to an extent as well, as seen by my price range on a home jukebox.)

I guess once that comes out, thats our replacement. Hopefully the work being done with OEM's will evenually surface to the consumer market, so that way I don't have to buy a new car to get my next empeg.