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Thread ID: 76408 2007-01-31 09:32:00 Choosing a stand alone DVD player doff1 (11839) PC World Chat
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521107 2007-01-31 09:32:00 I need to get a standalone DVD player for playing MP3 files in a church service setting. The search or access times have to be as short as possible. Can anyone suggest which is the fastest machine to buy? doff1 (11839)
521108 2007-01-31 10:13:00 If you after fast access times, you should be able to use more or less any player, but start the song and pause it. That way when you hit the button it will start in under a second for most models. Erayd (23)
521109 2007-02-01 00:19:00 I need to get a standalone DVD player for playing MP3 files in a church service setting. The search or access times have to be as short as possible. Can anyone suggest which is the fastest machine to buy?DVD players and MP3 players with hard drives have a finite mechanical search time and may not meet your requirements unless you can cue up the next item during the break between musical pieces. Even Bletch's solution will not allow consecutive pieces.

You could get instant access for consecutive pieces by having the all the titles on two separate 'solid state memory' MP3 players and cueing the second while the first was playing, and vice versa. A couple of 512MB players should have adequate capacity for 60 or 70 items or more.

More information is needed about your requirements before a workable solution can be devised, e.g. you would be totally unrealistic if you had a huge catalogue that wouldn't fit on a CD or you wanted one device to play both video and music.

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
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521110 2007-02-01 05:41:00 It would be nice to have a DVD player with a USB port. Strommer (42)
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