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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By Tamara Chuang, The Orange County Register, Calif.  Dec. 12--So many gadgets, not enough time. While I'm busy reviewing  Microsoft's new Zune for next week's Gadgetress, here are a few gadgets I've  seen or heard about recently that could come in handy for the holidays (hint,  hint).
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MP3 players have made it onto nearly everybody's holiday wish lists. Here is a collection of devices that suit every price range.
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p2pnet.net News:- Virgin Electronics has joined the mp3 race with a $250, five gig player which also handles Microsoft&#39;s WMA format.
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Even with Microsoft Zune looking to knock the iPod from its lofty perch, Apple&#8217;s portable music player is expected to remain at the top of the charts for MP3 players during the holiday shopping season. In fact, market-research firm NPD Group says the iPod will joins the ranks of plasma and LCD televisions, notebook computers, and digital cameras as the hot-selling items this December.
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Sony Corp. announced Tuesday a new 20 gigabyte digital music player with MP3 support that will be available in Great Britain and Japan before Christmas and elsewhere in Europe in early 2005.
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Introducing his iPod User&#146;s Guide, the Wall Street Journal&#146;s Walt Mossberg writes, &#147;By all accounts, millions of people will buy or receive Apple Computer&#146;s iPod digital-music players this holiday season. The gadgets are beautifully designed and simple to operate, which is one reason they&#146;re so popular, even after three years on the market and despite a rising number of competitors.&#148; [Dec 15]
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MacCentral - Sony Corp. 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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What Universal does with digital royalties Column How much can artists expect to benefit from Microsoft's Zune MP3 player?â¦
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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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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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A new generation of smaller, sleeker and cheaper MP3 players from the likes of Sony, Rio, Creative and Rave MP are hitting the market this fall, and they all have Apple
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Higher-capacity MP3 players and notebooks could be coming next year.
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It&#39;s no wonder portable digital music players are one of the hottest gadgets this holiday season, as they carry hundreds or even thousands of songs, they&#39;re compact enough to bring anywhere and getting music on to the player is as easy as two mouse clicks
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With sales of digital music players skyrocketing, is it any wonder that hardware makers are scrambling to create the next big portable entertainment gizmo?
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Priced at $249.99, it can play MP3, WMA and WAV-encoded music files.
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The old-school audiophile's format of choice is making a quiet comeback. Record sales are climbing as fans turn to vinyl for high-end home listening while continuing to buy MP3s for portability. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.