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Virgin's New iPod Rival

Posted by timothy on from the like-a-virgin dept.

iammaxus writes "CNET has the scoop on Virgin's new iPod killer. Favorite quote: 'Virgin said support for open standards such as WMA will let people select the music service of their choice.'" While this doesn't look like a bad player, it's the same price as an iPod mini (and incompatible with the most popular pay-per-download site), so calling it an iPod killer seems a bit premature.

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  1. Re:support for open standards such as WMA... by gfxguy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Of course, the CNET article doesn't actually say that... and also mentions mp3 compatibility... so it was just a stupid post, really.

    The Virgin site seems to be slashdotted at the moment, so I'll see what their marketing says about it, but I'm doubting they'll use open and WMA together...

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  2. Re:Buy your music from any download service by Kevinv · · Score: 4, Informative

    iTunes can encode to MP3 OR (non-DRM) AAC not just AAC. iPod can play both MP3 and AAC (non-DRM or fairplay encoded)