--]Currently, portable devices such as Diamond Multimedia's hugely popular Rio
--]player allow you to download music off the Net--compressed in the
--]controversial MP3 format and uploaded by pretty much anybody--without
--]paying for it.
Currently the price per meg ratio is appalingly high.
A mp3-cd has 650 meg of music
A base rio has room for 32
the 64 meg one is about $220
To get 650 meg of music I would need 10 64meg rios.
2200...a pent 133 note book with a sound card would cost me about half
that.
Ok say they get more ram for it, say ram is slashed to $30 for 32
meg...thats still 19upgrades X$30
There are CD players, both here and abroad, that will play mpeg, and a few
reports of ones that play mp3. Funny with the mp3 craze we havent seen one
hit the market. A cd player would cost about..say tops...300$
300$ for 650 meg of pure uncut music. Add a cd burner for your home PC,
another 250 bucks these dyas, and you are still beating the rio for price,
storage, expandability...and persoanl expression of ones own inner
natures.
Rios a nice media toy, is kinda cute like a tamagotchi, and thats the
truth ruth.
--]
--]models will support the SDMI standard.
--]
SDMI, SCUM codes redux., thre were work arounds for it then , there will
be again, and those will spread faster now than before because the root
culture is more intouch with that sorta thing
--]Still, don't look for the MP3 movement to fade out fast. "I believe
--]hardware manufacturers have a vested interest [in supporting MP3]," Jupiter
--]Communications analyst Mark Mooradian tells USA Today. "I don't see that
--]changing in the near future."
--]
Like i need the corps to tell me what to rip my music int, or what colors
my computers should be, or wher the menu bar ought to be, etc etc.
Carry on my wayward son, there will be no peace when you are done, lay
your weary paradigms to rest...dont you cry no more (gtr solo...on mp3)
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