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For those of you planning to add a CD player to your planes, think about a purely digital alternative instead. No possibility of scratching a CD during a rough landing or due to turbulence if the CD is safely back home in it's jewel case.

Diamond Multimedia www.diamondmm.com is selling a RIO player that allows you to download music into it and then listen to the RIO. This device is currently limited to about 2 hours of play time, but the market for this type of music storage is increasing rapidly as is the storage capacity.

Alternately, for those of you considering putting a PC in the panel or flying with a laptop on board, RealJukeBox www.real.com is a software application that allows you to store hundreds of CD's worth of music on a hard drive and listen to the music via a headset or speakers.

I think it would be a shame to carve up a panel for old technology devices when the direction of music storage is clearly going digital and computer driven.


Bill Gradwohl
IV-P Builder


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