MP3 CD Players?

Mischa asks: The nonmechanical mp3 players, such as the Rio and now the Nomad, but where is Sony/Panasonic/(insert fav corp here) and their cd player that can handle mp3s? A 64 meg memory stick is great, but it doesn't compare to the 650 meg storage of a CD, or the 2+ gigs of a DVD. Are the reasons for their conspicuous absence political, technological, or just plain dumb? :) " Actually, I think it's more due to the current industry view of MP3s. A CD holding 650 minutes of music is going to make the prevailent practice of selling a 74 minutes for $15 look bad. I'm personally all for something like this, and I had heard of projects like this to get MP3s to play on desktop boxes, but nothing really portable.