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iRiver to Build In-Dash Digital HD Players

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the so-many-cool-devices dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It looks like iRiver is going to take over where the Rio Car left off. Their CEO announced today that they are near completion on a new plant in China that will produce HD-based in-dash digital music players for automobiles. The new plant can push out 700K units a month. With the iPod dominating the digital portable market, iRiver sees this as a wide-open area they can move into. According to MacWorld iRiver is the third leading seller of MP3 portables with 5.6% of the market, following the number two seller Rio which holds 6.4% of the market. And the Apple iPod? No surprise, only a whopping 65.8% of all units shipped. 92% if you only count HD portables."

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  1. Cool, but by PDA_Boy · · Score: 2, Funny

    which will crash first- the player, or the car?

    1. Re:Cool, but by erick99 · · Score: 2, Funny

      If the car crashes and won't start up, try slamming the car down firmly onto a flat surface and the car should start up. Each time that the car crashes and won't start up and you slam it down on a flat surface it will go longer before crashing again.

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  2. Re:In-Dash? by blowdart · · Score: 3, Funny
    Oh please let it be wifi.

    Can't you just imagine it....

    some idiot set of spotty 17 year olds parked on the corner of your street in their Civic, complete with spoilers which are half the size of the car, blacked out windows, neon lights flashing under the body and the rear seats replaced with bass speakers.

    Up goes Netstumbler, or whatever and lo there's a connection there, "riceboy". You connect with the well documented passwords and there's the hard drive, full of ghetto rap.

    Hmm, so if I drag and drop this Vanilla Ice track and delete their "music" ....


    (In all seriousness removable drive in a USB2 cradle would be a nice way to provide for these devices, and you could take it out at night for security if necessary)

  3. Re:Rio Car was amazing in its day.. by ayn0r · · Score: 1, Funny
    Not many people cruise around with two 12gb drives and a 220mhz strongARM linux box in their cars :-)

    No, most of us are afraid of being pulled over by SCO's highway patrols. :/

  4. Re:In Soviet Russia.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Mr. Cheney, is that you?

  5. 78.5% of all statistics are made up on the spot... by TheShadowHawk · · Score: 2, Funny

    78.5% of all statistics are made up on the spot...

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