Philips HDD100 - Digital player - HDD 15 GB - WMA, MP3

Brand: Philips
Binding: Electronics

Customer Reviews:

Excellent gadget, great looks, smooth display [Posted on 2004-08-20]
I have to admit, the DMM software it came with is clumsy and slow, but it never froze on me. I am also using the Sveta Portable software which you can dowload from here: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t= 4628

This program allows you to do drag and drop in both directions and organize the player's playlists and songs.

The sound is great, (remember, junk in - junk out, so bad rips will sound bad as in any other player), it's small, light, great looking and sooo easy to use. I am impressed and really surprised about what other people wrote here.

Nice system, yet too many minor flaws [Posted on 2004-09-05]

I honestly think this system looks visually better then the iPod. As a matter of fact, this system uses a 2 color LCD screen. It is exactly like a game gear system screen or a small portable hand held TV screen except the actual Philip's hardware on this unit only permits 2 colors. However the iPod is only a regular Dot Matrix screen with the regular green back light screen (kinda like your watch.)
With that aside what irritates me the most is the freakin' software provided. You can't drag and drop files on to you unit. You have to use this slow program provided and ONLY this program. Perhaps most of your mp3 selection you cant use because philips created a thing that prevents you from downloading certain audio files that have been encrypted on the unit (something to do with Digital Rights Managament). Of course, this should not be much of Philip's concern if they want to stay in the audio business unless hassled by the government.
Also one would think if you have a 20gig HD on your jukebox with a nice quality screen, that I'm sure they could reserve a couple MB for games and programs. Think about it, perhaps a calculator, calender, about 2 dozen games (ya know, tetris, solitaire, frogger)and perhaps a screen saver - several of them - for viewing pleasure while sitting on that chair of yours. OK, now I'm just pushing it, since a lot of companies leave out just the simple essentials - the simple CHEAP essentials - that could give them better leverages over the competition.
Any who, the unit's own software is uncomfortably slow. It was a cool design to add animated menus and so forth, but if they move 2 frames per second, then what is the use. The fast forward doesn't fast forward really, it merely seems to distort the audio while it is moving 1/2 a second faster. But perhaps I'm picky, but, It would have been nice to separate the Play/Pause button from the Power button. How do you pause without powering off, or at least stop taking off certain needed buttons for aesthetic reasons.
But other then that, this is a fine piece of machinery.
O yeah, why do they always package the rather expensive audio players with cheap crappy headphones?

Peace of sh*t Poor Battery and OS [Posted on 2005-10-21]
my battery lasts less than 40 mins then dies.

the software is useless and philips provides NO warranty

Decent product, but too many glitches [Posted on 2005-11-08]
I would really agree with most of the reviews written here, while it is a great sleek looking MP3 player, if I were to buy another one today I wouldn't buy this again. Generally it works fine, I have no problem with the sound quality, and the 20GB version, which I own, is more than big enough to store all my music. There are however several minor problems with it.

Firstly it is prone to freezing up every now and then, there is a reset mode by pressing two buttons, but it is annoying and often the battery ends up much lower than it was previously. The battery life itself is also an issue, if your running it constantly it does actually last for many hours, however if you turn it off and back on again repeatedly it loses power quickly. Sometimes it also drops from 4 bars on the battery to 1 or 2 for no apparent reason.

Though I have had no major problems with it, there are too many minor glitches to recommend this over other players on the market.

Finally got it to work but wouldn't recommend to anyone [Posted on 2006-05-06]
I bought this mp3 player couple of weeks ago and yesterday I finally got it to work. The player itself looks and works great but its the software that sucks. The DMM software is awfully slow to initialize and takes ages to transfer your music. If you have couple of GB worth of songs in your player, trying to upload more songs can take such a long time(I am talking around 10 minutes for the software to initialize). On top of that it crashed on me so many times, specially when trying to transfer larger chunks of music files. The player's database sometimes can get corrupt as well if your PC crashes while the transfer is on process and when that happens, your songs will mysteriously vanish from the playlist and to find them, you will have to dig up very deep in the player to find them. Your song names will also disappear so you just have to listen to renamed numbered files and figure out if thats the song you were trying to listen to. There are some alternative softwares out there but they have their own flaws as well. One does not have user friendly interface and other does not support WMAs. I probably spent 2 days if I add up all the hours I put just to transfer my songs. I don't recommend this to anybody specially if you are looking for a player that works painlessly.

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