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Big Demand for Digital Music Players

Posted by samzenpus on from the music-on-the-go dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Market research company IDC is predicting a rosy future for MP3 player sales. They predict that by 2008 it will grow into a $58 billion industry - four times bigger than the US record industry. Also in the news, Sony will finally start making a digital music portable that plays MP3s. Their present players only read their proprietary ATRAC3 format, forcing you to transcode any MP3 files you want to play on them."

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  1. Sony finally gets it.... by sammaverick · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Finally Sony kind of understands what the market wants... I was disappointed with them at first. Having to convert all my MP3's into ATRAC3 is just a pain in the rear. Any chance they can take over Apple's market?

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