June 25, 2004

By: Ashton Mollina
Website: http://www.booming-car-audio.com

Alpine Launches In-Car Hard Disk Drive Player for enjoying massive MP3/WMA Collections on the road

Alpine Electronics of America, Inc. has announced that its highly anticipated HDA-5460 in-dash hard disk drive player will be available through authorized dealers nationwide. Alpine's new HDA-5460 player with a 16GB removable hard disk drive enables people to take upwards of 3,000 of their favorite MP3/WMA/WAV music files on the road with them.

With up to one million paid music downloads taking place weekly, it's clear that people are building massive MP3/WMA libraries, said Steve Witt, Alpine's vice president of Brand Marketing. Alpine's HDA-5460 defines compressed media playback in the car with industry-leading functionality that addresses the particular challenges online music enthusiasts face, including the need to more intuitively navigate through large libraries to easily find the music they're looking for.

With Alpine's HDA-5460, enjoying large MP3/WMA music collections in the car is easy. The HDA-5460 is designed for in-dash installation, putting all the system controls in front of the user. The system can be easily integrated with any Alpine Ai-Net head unit or can function as a stand-alone playback system using an RCA output.

The tricky task of managing large music libraries is made much easier with Alpine's exclusive Quick Search™ , which enables people to search for tracks by genre, artist, album, song or playlist using a simple paddle switch on the front panel. The HDA-5460 features a three-line text display and Alpine's Biolite™ technology, which produces brighter visuals to help punch through sun glare, as well as wider horizontal and vertical viewing angles for easier operation.

The HDA-5460 offers many fun features for the Gen Y audience, including a selectable DJ function that personalizes 10 genre selections with different DJ voices and sound effects. Alpine's Music Visualizer™ even provides cool accompanying graphics on the display.

Transferring music files from the desktop to the hard disk drive is fast. Users simply plug a cable from the computer directly to the removable disk drive's USB port. The system comes with Alpine's Mobile Multimedia Driver computer software, providing powerful desktop tools for burning, downloading and managing music collections. An auto-synch function enables people to quickly update their drive with the latest music and playlists on their desktop.

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