Boom times for mp3 players?
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p2pnet.net News:- Is digital music finally going mainstream? According to market research firm IDC, the MP3 portable market will boom over the next five years into a $58 billion industry.
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SonyÂ is broadening support for the MP3 file format in its portable music player range. It will introduce a new hard disk-based MP3 player in December, and will offer software upgrades for earlier players with hard disk storage so they can play MP3s too.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Billboard) - Customers picking up the latest MP3 players this fall are getting much more than just a device. Increasingly, they're getting free music as well.
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Electronics giant Sony has reversed its position on the formats playable by its range of digital music players. The company has announced its new devices will now be able to play music tracks in the MP3 format
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Sony is on a roll after the announcement that some of its digital audio players will now support MP3 files. Up to now, they only supported the company&#39;s proprietary ATRAC3plus format, a technology used in its Mini Disc players.
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Sony launches music players with MP3 support CNET News.com
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Sony&#39;s apparently gotten the message: Some of its new MP3 player models will feature direct support for MP3 in addition to its proprietary ATRAC format.
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Compressed audio players - also known as MP3 players â-re available in portable, home and automotive form factors and from major and minor consumer electronics manufacturers and PC vendors.
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SanDisk Corp. SNDK.O will bring a $100   MP3 music player onto the market in October with a capacity of   2 gigabytes, enough to hold about 1,000 songs, the company said   on Saturday.
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Virgin launched its 5 GB player, whose battery life (eight hours) and retail price ($249) both match the iPod Mini&#39;s. There are also reports of the impending release of Creative&#39;s
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Sales of portable MP3 digital-audio players are booming and are set to generate US&#36;58 billion in revenue worldwide by 2008, according to a new study from research firm IDC.
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The big news in digital audio recently was Sony&#39;s NW-HD3, the company&#39;s first hard-drive-based digital audio player to support the MP3 format right out of the box.
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Reg review Some market watchers say that mobile phones will eventually supersede standalone MP3 players. Creative&#39;s latest device certainly anticipates such a move, in design if not functionality.
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Sony&#39;s two MP3 players, the NW-HD3 with a 20-gigabyte hard-disk drive, and the NW-E99, with a built-in 1-gigabyte flash-memory chip, go on sale December 10 in Japan.
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No longer confined to technology fans and those ahead of the curve, MP3 players are entering mainstream society as prices fall and general consumers get used to them.
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Yeah, theyâre saying Sonyâs two new players wonât make you deal with that ridiculous SonicStage MP3 to ATRAC converstion stuff anymore, and itâs being reported that the two new players will be among the first to natively support MP3.
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At least a dozen portable music players are angling to steal sales away from Apple Computer Inc.'s wildly popular line of iPods this holiday season. In the past month alone, five companies have unveiled their iPod challengers - pocket-sized players with hard disks that can store anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 songs.