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Rio 800 to hit UK in March
News Sonicblue, formerly S3, will launch the Rio 800, its latest digital music player, in the UK before the end of March 2001. The Rio 800 will ship with 64MB of memory as standard -- twice as much as its predecessor, the Rio 600.
[January 25, 2001, 8:20]
A Year Ago: Rio MP3 player in America today - Europe to follow
News America will get its first load of Rio players today, following a court decision last month that quashed the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) attempt to stop the Diamond Multimedia's controversial MP3 player reaching consumers.
[November 22, 1999, 6:07]
Rio S-Series
Downloads This file is provided to owners and users of the Rio S-series players for the express purpose of upgrading the Rio firmware to version 1.83.
[May 5, 2003, 8:00]
Nuggets: Rio 600 pushes MP3 players forward
News There's a lot of history behind the Rio. Well, she didn't succeed and the Rio is back, slimmer, sexier and a damn sight easier to use than the original model. Rio 600 MP3 player inc. This is the device that set the RIAA off in the US, and forced a...
[August 29, 2000, 14:31]
Rio MP3 player in America today - Europe to follow
News America will get its first load of Rio players today, following a court decision last month that quashed the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) attempt to stop the Diamond Multimedia's controversial MP3 player reaching consumers.
[November 23, 1998, 11:09]
Rio One
Downloads This flash utility should be used to restore Rio One's that are in a flashing "USB" or "USB Comm" state. This is a flash utility that reinstalls the original shipping firmware.
[December 12, 2001, 6:00]
The Rio story - dawn of a new era?
News It would be known as the Rio. By signing off on the Rio, Schroeder was taking a big first step away from a market with increasingly dim prospects for growth. Schroeder, the CEO of Diamond Multimedia Inc.understood that the proposal represented a...
[June 14, 1999, 8:17]
Diamond's new Rio expected tomorrow
News Currently transferring an audio CD onto the Rio in MP3 format takes as much as an hour. The Rio did great first time around, but it wasn't exactly user friendly and was painfully slow uploading files.
[June 22, 1999, 10:12]
Diamond spins off Rio business and launches new model
News Diamond Multimedia Systems (Nasdaq:MSFT) will form RioPort as an independent subsidiary, consisting of the popular Rio digital audio device line of business as well as RioPort.com, an MP3 content site for Rio users.
[June 24, 1999, 15:12]
Nuggets: Palm Pilot keyboard and Rio MP3 utility
News The latest version of RioGeo, the cool utility that allows you to upload and download any type of file to your Rio MP3 player, has been released. If you've got a Rio make sure you get this programme. Nuggets is a daily update on the latest software...
[February 11, 1999, 13:59]
New Rio doubles playback time to one hour
News Diamond Multimedia Systems representatives said the company will form RioPort as an independent subsidiary, consisting of the popular Rio digital audio device line of business as well as RioPort.com, an MP3 content site for Rio users.
[June 24, 1999, 16:11]
A Year Ago: Diamond free to roll out Rio
News In mid-September, Diamond announced the Rio PMP300 -- a Walkman-sized device that can hold up to an hour of music in a compressed audio format known as MPEG-1 Layer 3, or just MP3. On Oct.the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA...
[October 27, 1999, 6:45]
Music industry considers Rio strategy
News When Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc.announced plans to release its Rio PMP300 digital music player in October, the RIAA struck back. While the suit delayed the Rio's release by 10 days, the RIAA lost its attempt to put the player on indefinite hold.
[November 23, 1998, 9:23]
US Report: Diamond free to roll out Rio
News In mid-September, Diamond (Nasdaq:DIMD) announced the Rio PMP300 -- a Walkman-sized device that can hold up to an hour of music in a compressed audio format known as MPEG-1 Layer 3, or just MP3. On Oct.the Recording Industry Association of America...
[October 27, 1998, 11:00]
Nuggets: Samsung goes Rio bashing and DVD-On-A-Chip
News Samsung to go Rio bashing Samsung has cottoned on to the idea that MP3 is cool and plans to release its own Rio bashing MP3 walkman which is, for some unimaginable reason called the yepp. Nuggets is a daily update on the latest software and...
[January 15, 1999, 12:24]
Hacked Rio to pose legal problems?
News Last September, Diamond released its Rio digital music player, which quickly became a hit among technophiles. On Tuesday, programmers from the Linux group Snowblind Alliance posted software for Diamond's digital music player, the Rio PMP300, which...
[January 28, 1999, 9:49]
Diamond's colourful Rio player
News Taking a page from Apple's book, multimedia hardware maker Diamond Multimedia Systems announced a special-edition of its Rio digital music player that has twice the memory and comes in a translucent teal case.
[April 13, 1999, 7:37]
Rio no longer home to pirates as world waits for June 30
News The Rio is smaller than an audio cassette and stores as much as 60 minutes of MP3 audio transferred to the device from a personal computer. The Rio PMP300 has already sold over 200,000 units world-wide and the music industry has been trying to...
[April 27, 1999, 12:00]
Nuggets: Oh Yeah, the second Rio is here...
News It's round II for the Rio. An inspired and aggressive advertising campaign -- not to mention that silly legal debacle -- has seen Diamond's Rio MP3 player capture the hearts of the public. Indeed mention MP3 and 'Rio' is one of the first things...
[July 9, 1999, 15:50]
