11% of American adults own portable digital music players

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Sony will support MP3 in portable
digital music players

Sony will support MP3 in portable
digital music players 09/23/2004 11:15 AM
Xeni Jardin: Sony confirmed yesterday that it plans to add native MP3 support to digital music players, in a move that will likely help the products compete more effectively with more popular competitors like Apple's iPod. Until now, the Sony devices were designed to only play files encoded with Sony's proprietary Atrac music file format.

The shift from reliance on its proprietary format will begin with flash memory-based players, the electronics giant said, but plans are still being finalized on how and when products will add MP3 support. CNET News.com affiliate ZDNet France first reported of the change in Sony's strategy for the European market. U.S. representatives said the company is making similar plans here.

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Loading Digital Music: Popular Portable
Players Create Cottage Industry

Loading Digital Music: Popular Portable
Players Create Cottage Industry 02/01/2005 09:35 PM

While that process may seem relatively simple for savvy computer users, Robins knows there are many more consumers who don't have the time to convert an entire collection, especially if ripping one CD takes five to 10 minutes. By Benny Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle

Flash-Memory MP3 Players: Portable Audio
Players Offer Music To Go, On The Cheap

Flash-Memory MP3 Players: Portable Audio
Players Offer Music To Go, On The Cheap 05/26/2004 06:02 AM
The Rio Cali is our favorite player of the bunch -- hands-down. This player is especially appealing for its great functionality and excellent interface design. By Mathew Honan, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

Big Demand for Digital Music Players

Big Demand for Digital Music Players 09/22/2004 06:37 PM

Guide to digital music players

Guide to digital music players 07/24/2004 10:58 AM
Chicago Tribune Jul 24 2004 3:10PM GMT

Fourteen Digital Music Players Reviewed

Fourteen Digital Music Players Reviewed 04/20/2004 02:09 PM

30% of digital music players burn CDs or
DVDs weekly

30% of digital music players burn CDs or
DVDs weekly 04/17/2005 06:59 PM
ZDNet Apr 17 2005 10:02PM GMT

PluggedIn: Seeking the Best Battery for
Digital Music Players

PluggedIn: Seeking the Best Battery for
Digital Music Players 05/26/2004 04:35 AM
Boston Globe May 26 2004 8:17AM GMT

Seeking the Best Battery for Digital
Music Players (Reuters)

Seeking the Best Battery for Digital
Music Players (Reuters) 05/25/2004 11:54 AM
Reuters - Digital music players have quickly become the latest must-have gadget, although their batteries may wear out long before their popularity.

on its playlist: a new online music
store and digital media players

on its playlist: a new online music
store and digital media players 09/02/2004 06:18 AM
Ledger-enquirer.com - Thu Sep 2, 10:04 am GMT

PluggedIn: Seeking the Best Battery for
Digital Music Players (Reuters)

PluggedIn: Seeking the Best Battery for
Digital Music Players (Reuters) 05/25/2004 08:51 PM
Reuters - Digital music players have quickly become the latest must-have gadget, although their batteries may wear out long before their popularity.

Apple Computer said quarterly profit
more than tripled, bolstered by sales of
its iPod digital music players

Apple Computer said quarterly profit
more than tripled, bolstered by sales of
its iPod digital music players 07/14/2004 08:18 PM
Newsweek Jul 15 2004 0:35AM GMT

Sixty Three Percent of American Adults
Use the Internet

Sixty Three Percent of American Adults
Use the Internet 12/23/2003 10:23 PM
US Embassy Tokyo Dec 23 2003 9:10PM ET

Poll: Most American Adults Sleep Poorly
(AP)

Poll: Most American Adults Sleep Poorly
(AP) 03/29/2005 09:22 AM
AP - Getting a good night's sleep is hard for many adults and that often means poorer health, lower productivity on the job, more danger on the roads and a less vibrant sex life.

6 million American adults have listened
to podcasts

6 million American adults have listened
to podcasts 04/05/2005 06:13 AM
Pew Internet and Life Project .. report

pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_podcasting.pdf
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"6 million American adults have listened
to podcasts"

"6 million American adults have listened
to podcasts" 04/08/2005 04:53 AM

Survey: Fewer Adults Downloading Music

Survey: Fewer Adults Downloading Music 04/25/2004 06:05 PM
AP via Daily Press Apr 25 2004 9:33PM GMT

Survey: Fewer Adults Downloading Music
(AP)

Survey: Fewer Adults Downloading Music
(AP) 04/25/2004 04:36 PM
AP - Driven largely by fears of copyright lawsuits, more than 17 million Americans, or 14 percent of adult Internet users, have stopped downloading music over the Internet, a survey finds.

Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline,
According to National Endowment for the
Arts Survey - Fewer Than Half of
American Adults Now Read Literature

Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline,
According to National Endowment for the
Arts Survey - Fewer Than Half of
American Adults Now Read Literature 07/09/2004 06:31 AM
press release

nea.gov/news/news04/ReadingAtRisk.html
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"Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline,
According to National Endowment for the
Arts Survey - Fewer Than Half of
American Adults Now Read Literature"

"Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline,
According to National Endowment for the
Arts Survey - Fewer Than Half of
American Adults Now Read Literature" 07/09/2004 10:11 PM

Mobile Phones, Digital Cameras, and DVD
Players Lead the List of “Most Wanted”
Digital Electronics

Mobile Phones, Digital Cameras, and DVD
Players Lead the List of “Most Wanted”
Digital Electronics 08/27/2004 01:40 PM
New Primary Research from The Diffusion Group Explores Ownership & Purchase Inclinations of Digital Electronic Devices among Internet Households [PRWEB Aug 24, 2004]

Companies toy with portable media
players

Companies toy with portable media
players 07/19/2004 09:35 AM
ZDNet Jul 19 2004 2:13PM GMT

AMD targets portable video players

AMD targets portable video players 01/04/2005 01:08 PM
ZDNet UK Jan 4 2005 4:53PM GMT

Jobs on Portable Video Players

Jobs on Portable Video Players 01/09/2004 09:48 PM
David Pogue writes (New York Times) on an interview with Steve Jobs at the MacWorld Expo. The topic of portable Video Players came up and Jobs take...

Video Players Go Portable (PC World)

Video Players Go Portable (PC World) 06/03/2004 10:50 AM
PC World - Success of the IPod prompts companies to produce mobile multimedia devices.

More Linux Portable Media Players On The
Way

More Linux Portable Media Players On The
Way 01/03/2005 07:06 PM

AMD chips in for portable video players

AMD chips in for portable video players 01/04/2005 11:03 AM
AMD has developed a low-power chip that it thinks will make portable video players more compelling by reducing the time needed to transfer content to the devices. The company is expected to announce the chip at CES (the International Consumer Electronics Show) this week. Portable video players with the new Alchemy Au1200 processor will play Mpeg files recorded by digital video recorders, eliminating the need for users to change those files to a different format, a spokeperson says. AMD has designed a reference platform for manufacturers that includes the chip and media player software, and the company expects devices to emerge in the second quarter of this year.

Panasonic D-snap Audio Portable Players

Panasonic D-snap Audio Portable Players 03/19/2005 02:45 AM

Panasonic introduced a few portable audio players yesterday that we forgot to mention (although they leaked way back in October), in the "D-snap Audio" line. We'll start with the "SV-SD100V" and "SV-SD90" square-shaped players with SD card slot (and only an SD card slot). They also have a mirrored organic EL display, and compatibility with MP3, WMA and AAC. In fact, the SV-SD100V throws in an FM tuner and voice recorder.

Also announced were the "SV-MP720V" and "SV-MP730V." Their interesting "two block" design actually won Panasonic a design award. The two units vary only in capacity, color variations and price. Both are MP3 and WMA compatible and have an FM tuner/voice recorder you probably won't ever use. A sort of disappointing 10-hour battery life on these.

New Panasonic player roundup [TechJapan]

TiVo Hits The Road With Portable Players

TiVo Hits The Road With Portable Players 01/03/2005 05:36 PM
A new mobile infrastructure sprang into being on Monday, with manufacturers introducing a new line of video players capable of playing Tivo-recorded videos, all based on a new embedded processor from Advanced Micro Devices.

AMD unveils chip for portable video
players

AMD unveils chip for portable video
players 01/03/2005 05:37 PM
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has developed a low-power chip that it thinks will make portable video players more compelling by reducing the time needed to transfer content to the devices. The company is expected to announce the chip at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Monday.

Portable Media Players Seen as Hot
Holiday Item

Portable Media Players Seen as Hot
Holiday Item 07/17/2004 01:23 PM
Boston Globe Jul 17 2004 5:01PM GMT

Microsoft's Portable Media Players Begin
Shipping

Microsoft's Portable Media Players Begin
Shipping 09/02/2004 02:12 AM
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday will announce that the first third-party Portable Media Center media players will hit the streets.

Portable Media Players Seen as Hot
Holiday Item (Reuters)

Portable Media Players Seen as Hot
Holiday Item (Reuters) 07/17/2004 07:59 AM
Reuters - One of the hottest items on U.S. toy store shelves this holiday season might not be a toy at all, but a portable entertainment player, experts say.

Two S-Media Portable Video Players:
JoyToGo and Black Diamond

Two S-Media Portable Video Players:
JoyToGo and Black Diamond 06/08/2004 07:31 AM

DAPReview has shots of a couple of small, hard drive-based video players, both with planned release dates around September. The first is the JoyToGo (pictured left, and which I could have sworn we'd seen before, but Google says otherwise), built around either a 20 or 30GB 1.8" hard drive, with a 480 x 234 2.5" LCD screen, as well as built-in speakers and SD slot. It will also allow direct recording of video in MPEG-4 at rates of 640x480 at 25fps -- not bad, consider that's larger than its own screen.

And even though it's only a mock-up at the moment, I can't help but be excited by the 'Black Diamond' player, built around a tiny 1" hard drive with an as-yet-unspecified capacity. It only has a 294 x 228 resolution (with the same 2.5" screen size as the JoyToGo), and no speakers or anything like that, but if they could bump the resolution of the Black Diamond up to 480 x 234, I would be happy -- honored, even -- to carry around the little player in my pocket.

Both players are from S-Media, the makers of the moderately successful CoCoPod hard disk player.
Read [DAPreview]

Related
CoCoPod Music Player Reviewed [Gizmodo]
Shimy Shimy Cocopod [Gizmodo]

The New York Times > Arts > Music > Ray
Charles, Who Reshaped American Music,
Dies at 73

The New York Times > Arts > Music > Ray
Charles, Who Reshaped American Music,
Dies at 73 06/11/2004 03:38 AM

nytimes.com/2004/06/10/arts/music/10CND-RAY.html
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American Airlines' In-Flight Portable
Media Device

American Airlines' In-Flight Portable
Media Device 02/05/2005 10:17 PM

American Airlines is set to provide an in-flight entertainment media player for $8 a flight, filled with moves, music videos, games, and that day's major newspapers. Apparently, half of American's fleet are MD-80s which have no on-board entertainment. Rather than spending lots of money to retrofit them with expensive, integrated systems, American hopes to address passenger needs on a more individual basis.

Flights with the yet-unbranded portable media device start this week on flights from LaGuardia to Miami and LaGuardia to Dallas.

American Airlines To Offer In-Flight Entertainment To Rival Smaller Carriers [NY1 via CoranteNewYork]

PlayStation Portable makes North
American debut

PlayStation Portable makes North
American debut 03/26/2005 06:56 AM
Macworld.com - Sat Mar 26, 07:47 am GMT

iPods More Than Music Players

iPods More Than Music Players 07/29/2004 01:15 AM
By Rebekah Rosenfeld, The Auburn Plainsman (via MyAppleMenu)

Complete range of MP3 players now
available at Digital Planet

Complete range of MP3 players now
available at Digital Planet 05/18/2004 10:36 PM
Sunday Times South Africa May 19 2004 2:49AM GMT
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