iRiver to Build In-Dash Digital HD Players

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 12, 2004 @11:21PM 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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Re:What about patents and stuff... by erick99 · 2004-10-12 23:31 · Score: 5, Informative

US patents apply to any product sold in the US regardless of origin. This was covered in-depth in a recent topic regarding patents. If you do a search it should come up and you can find the relevant law/code.

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Re:In-Dash? by Soul-Burn666 · 2004-10-12 23:39 · Score: 5, Informative

From TFA: "One that pulls from the dash when you want to load a significant volume of songs and takes flash media when the user only wishes to transfer a few tunes."

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