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Intel to release handheld digital-audio player
News Intel will come out with a portable digital-audio player next month, as the lines separating PC manufacturers, component makers, Internet service providers and consumer electronics companies continue to blur.
[December 8, 2000, 16:54]
Digital giants prepare for audio format war
News Simon Clare, senior product manager hi-fi systems at Sharp, which launches its SACD player later this year, is convinced that "there is ultimately going to be a format war". The rumblings of the next bloody format war were in full evidence at...
[March 28, 2000, 10:30]
Music industry fears advent of digital music player
News While the player takes downloadable music offline, the heart of the dispute is the MP3 audio standard. The first step will be taken today, when PC hardware maker Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc.releases its portable digital music player, Rio PMP300.
[November 23, 1998, 9:49]
Just do it! Nike develops MP3 player
News Nike is working with S3's Diamond Multimedia division to develop a digital audio player specially designed for athletes. Nike officials, who said they wanted to develop a music player specifically for athletes, examined several different...
[May 11, 2000, 14:09]
MP3 karaoke player hits the market
News The new digital-audio player, along with a new MP3 format, is designed to display lyrics and other graphics while songs play. The Irock 680 player from Motorola spin-off First International Digital will begin shipping during the Consumer...
[January 3, 2001, 8:03]
Compaq slips a disc into audio players
News The iPaq Personal CD Player PCD-1 can hold about 20 hours of digital audio and uses standard 4.75-inch CDs. It also sells the iPaq Personal Audio Player PA-2, which uses flash memory for storage, and a home digital audio receiver, the iPaq Music...
[October 23, 2001, 9:32]
AOL, Liquid Audio enter digital music pact
News Liquid Audio is also to develop a Liquid Plug-in for the Winamp player to allow users full access to Liquid Audio's entire digital music catalogue. AOL's Winamp player, with the Liquid Audio Plug-in, will be distributed on all of AOL's digital...
[January 5, 2000, 13:59]
Open-source audio wins MP3 player support
News Open-source audio technology Ogg Vorbis will get its first official entrée into a commercial portable MP3 player next month. Digital Innovations' device is providing a new twist on the old MP3 player in other ways as well.
[February 25, 2003, 9:59]
Ogg Vorbis plays with hardware support
News The format reached a milestone 1.0 release earlier this year, and now the Xiph.org Foundation, which coordinates Ogg development, has released an open-source Ogg player that will work with ordinary digital music player hardware.
[September 4, 2002, 13:31]
Windows Media Player (Pocket PC)
Downloads Windows Media Player for Pocket PC brings the most common digital media activities together in one application. It gives full support for downloaded digital audio and video playback, playlist management, and support for Digital Rights Management.
[January 10, 2002, 6:38]
Digital Audio players to use Iomega PocketZip technology
News I-Jam and Win-Jam digital audio players are going to be compatible with 40Mb PocketZip disks, and designed to work with Windows Media Player 7. The arrival of companies such as Sony into the arena has given added credibility, and manufacturers are...
[September 1, 2000, 9:30]
US electronics giant backs MP3
News This month Microsoft announced its MS Audio 4.0 player, a competitor to MP3. In a sign that the MP3 digital music format is heading for the home entertainment centre, consumer electronics giant Thomson Multimedia SA announced Wednesday a 20 percent...
[April 29, 1999, 9:10]
Nuggets: Pump up your DVD experience
News It comes with optical and coaxial digital outputs to let you connect to a standalone DVD player, DVD-ed PC or a CD/MD system. The DigiTheatre DTS digital home cinema audio system is designed to bring top notch audio for Dolby digital 5.1 and DTS...
[March 1, 2000, 14:10]
US Report: Judge halts Diamond's MP3 player
News The RIAA hopes to stop Diamond -- and by extension other manufacturers -- from marketing a handheld audio player that plays compressed music files, known as MP3 files, that can be downloaded from the Internet.
[October 19, 1998, 9:41]
Sony buys stake in RealNetworks
News RealNetworks has also incorporated Sony's ATRAC3 compression technology into its audio playback software, and it is developing a digital media player for PlayStation2. RealNetworks on Tuesday said it inked a multiyear partnership with Sony...
[May 1, 2002, 8:59]
Softick Audio Gateway
Downloads Softick Audio Gateway also supports Audio Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) which allows you to control Palm OS media players like Pocket Tunes, RealOne Player, Audible Player, TCPMP using headset buttons.
[November 19, 2007, 23:24]
Sony to debut portable DVD/CD-RW player
News The consumer-electronics giant's new MPD-AP20U player can play and record CDs as well as play DVDs and digital audio files, such as MP3s. As a standalone portable player, Sony's new gadget can play back CDs as well as MP3, WAV and WMA files that...
[October 22, 2002, 8:45]
IDF: A glimpse of the digital home
News The setup lets the DVD player access digital media files, such as digital video, images and audio, that are stored on a PC. Connecting consumer audio and video appliances to PCs is also meant to build off the popularity of digital content, such as...
[September 16, 2002, 13:02]
Nokia reveals trio of telephone technology
News The MMS-enabled handset comes with an integrated digital audio player which can support MP3 and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), a digital recorder, as well as a stereo FM radio. Other noteworthy features on the phone are an integrated digital camera...
[March 13, 2003, 10:52]
