Big Demand for Digital Music Players

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."

Comments

Not Too Big

[Tony]

Alla' you "It's Too Big" whiners are missing several important points about the Neuros:

• Ogg Support
  
• FM Broadcasting built in
  
• Just a USB mass storage device
  
• Regular 2.5" hard drive (cheap upgrades!)
  
• Open Source, bay-bee!
  
• Fan-fucking-tastic customer support
  
• Modular, so you can have backpacks with different genres of music
  
• Not as expensive as the iPod

There are other reasons to favor the Neuros over the iPod, but those are the big ones.

But, as for everything, personal preferences play a huge role in your selection of a personal music device (PMD).