Network Media Player With Storage

The Harman Kardon DMC 1000 is a four-stream digital music server. It can store and play back more than 60,000 songs, will let you send up to four different audio selections to other rooms of your house at once, and has an HDMI output with upscaling to 1080p.

Amazon Sales Rank: #133193 in Receiver or Amplifier Color: Black Brand: Harman Kardon Model: DMC 1000 Dimensions: 4.06" h x 15.31" w x 17.12" l, 4-stream digital media center with progressive scan DVD-video playback and 250GB internal hard drive Banish your CDs: will digitize, catalog and store more than 60,000 songs as you play them No-button design: front panel controls are touch sensitive Concealed front-panel USB jack and hidden memory card slots Transfer your music for use in portable players, card-equipped cars and cell phones

Most helpful customer reviews 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Grear device! I like it a lot! By Alex Vox I really,really like this unit! It is connected to HK3490 and two JBL 890 speakers. The sound this thing produces is to be heard to be believed. The quality of convertors make a magic: the sound is warm, nice, easy and pleasant to an ear. I listen mostly to jazz and it is one nice worthy machine. The library I have on it is about 80 CDs with plenty of room to go and it is all instantly there. The menus are very well conceived, unit is super-quiet, acquires CDs very well (I set it to wav, but you can do it in mp3, if you pleased). The searching, browsing, art all are great. Be sure that you upgrade the system to its latest version. With version it has arrived it didn't do on Internet very well, but you just download or request the update and it is perfect since. In my HK3490 remote this DMC 1000 is pre-coded on VD1 so it is very very convenient to use. First and foremost it sound really well, the convertors are really great! I wouldn't keep it if the sound quality wouldn't be on a par, but it sounds nicer than my Denon dedicated CD player. Great unit, strikingly beautiful and logical and simple to use. I'm very happy to have it. 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Stunning, but overpriced. By Derek I've owned a DMC 1000 for a couple of months now, so I feel I can give an honest review. My review is a bit lengthy, but I felt it was warranted given the cost of the item. To start off, this unit looks stunning and feels solid. The rounded corners and gloss plexi face compliment the newer H/K lineup perfectly. The large, and bright vacuum-fluorescent display is easy to read and can be dimmed or turned off entirely. The unit features very slick touch-sensitive controls, but being on a gloss back surface makes using them somewhat impractical without leaving fingerprints. The product image is a little misleading, however - my unit has a completely black face, no gray 'band' in the center. There is at least one fan, one of which venting at the rear panel. The fan(s) and HDD are slightly audible when in close proximity of the unit during operation. Rubber mounts are used on the HDD and fan mounts to isolate vibration. Performance and operation is very good. The menus are intuitive and easy to navigate with the included IR remote. The high-resolution GUI features an attractive grayscale gradient with brightly colored and highlighted menu icons. Text and images are sharp and clear. A collage of your album coverart makes up the background, which should be familiar to anyone who has used Windows Media Center, but is still attractive none the less. You cannot control the unit effectively without a monitor or display on. The remote should be familiar to anyone who has owned H/K DVD players before, the same basic shape/design was used on their models of the early 2000s and most recently the BDP 1 Blu-Ray player. It is decent overall with a nice 'soft' suede-like feel on the back. The buttons are illuminated, but the labels are not on the buttons - instead dark gray on the black remote. All but impossible to read in low-light conditions where you would actually make use of that illumination feature. The remote also keeps you from getting the full potential out of this machine, but I will get into that later along with the mult-zone operation. CDs are first ripped to the HDD, then played back. I have the unit networked (wired only, FYI), thus far 100% of the album info has been correct. A big tip - change the default disc inserted action from "play and record" to "record only" and discs are ripped MUCH faster (on average, about 1-2 minutes vs. a painfully slow ~5min with simultaneous playback) DVD playback is not as good as my standalone Harman Kardon DVD 48 DVD Audio/Video and SACD(tm) Player With HDMI(tm) Connectivity, mostly because there seems to be some over saturation of colors which I can't seem to tweak