Ford MP3 player?

I read on Wired News that Ford is shipping an add-on to its Focus cars this year that is a hard drive that comes with PC software so you can put all your music on the 10 gig hard drive and stick it in your car. Anybody knows what's that?

Cheers!

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
#5196

Hmm, that article no longer mentions Ford.

Strange, that.

Hugo

Hmm, that article no longer mentions Ford.

It does, actually, on the last (third) page.

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
#5196

I must be going blind... I swear that wasn't there before ;)

Hugo

So come on, Hugo...is that you guys, or is there some other cutting-edge-mp3-technology-for-in -car-use company out there we don't know about?
Jason

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"WAY too happy about having #99."

So come on, Hugo...is that you guys, or is there some other cutting-edge-mp3-technology-for-in -car-use company out there we don't know about?

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...proud to have one of the first Mark I units

We have no idea what this article refers to.

We developed an MP3 product for Visteon (the ancilliary manufacturing arm of Ford) but that doesn't appear to be what the article refers to. I've found no mention of this on Ford's web site.

Rob

That explains that one picture here that has an empeg looking device. Is that just a slave device to the stereo? I would imagine the slave via LAN that Hugo talked about as a possibility for the Mark 2 could look like that with just the blank face, and be easy to store elsewhere.

Also, it seems funny that empeg in a sense is setting up to compete with it's self. I think Rob said earlier that there are no upcomming HDD based in dash MP3 players comming from other companies out there. But yet Visteon is going to release an empeg-powered player :-) Out of curiosity, will these units you are developing for other companies be somehow compatible with existing or future empeg products?

My empeg site is:http://24.236.3.131/empeg/

The Visteon player has been discussed in a thread elsewhere on the BBS. The upshot is that it emulates a CD autochanger and can be tucked away under a seat or in the glove box.

We're certainly not setting up to compete with ourselves - developing products for OEM clients is a key business activity for empeg. As we've stated before, we market the car player as a flagship example of some of our technology, as that particular product is simply too expensive for a mainstream manufacturer to produce in it's current form.

OEM products will not necessarily be compatible with empeg products - indeed, they may provide very different functionality.

Rob