What is Digg?188 Comments
- babak91, on 03/11/2008, -16/+178Having an LCD screen still makes this more advanced than the shuffle.
- americamatrix, on 03/11/2008, -1/+60I have a Diamond Rio - holds ~ about 8 songs...Got it for Christmas in 8th grade, its a work horse, thing still works!
PMP300 FTW! - exomni, on 03/11/2008, -2/+61Monopolized by Microsoft and Apple? What the ***** are you talking about? Creative, Sandisk and Samsung are all ahead of Microsoft in market share.
- PeTeRZz, on 03/11/2008, -3/+528 songs! almost a whole album!
- JoshuaLowe, on 03/11/2008, -5/+39On BOL yesterday they mentioned the RIAA got a 10 day injunction against the sale of this device. The record industry has been opposed to digital music from the very beginning. And look how that's worked out for them. Not well.
- nascentia, on 03/11/2008, -1/+31Wow, 10 years already? I still have my first MP3 player...a Rio with 64 MB of internal memory. Those were the good days...AudioSlave, AudioGalaxy, direct downloads...*sigh*
- santaliqueur, on 03/11/2008, -2/+32Monopolized by TWO companies? You need to learn what the word "monopoly" means.
- kelly, on 03/11/2008, -3/+24Don't worry... we still think you're lame. It had nothing to do with your Rio or lack of an iPod.
- samsoffes, on 03/11/2008, -4/+24I don't miss carrying my Case Logic around with hundreds of CDs. Thank you MP3 Player
- t2t2, on 03/11/2008, -3/+21"... a lawsuit from the Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA)"
No comment @ Ass. - explnx, on 04/27/2009, -0/+17We traded tapes long before MP3's came out, but we didn't have the internet as a venue for us all get pissed off at the RIAA togther.
- falafelkiosken, on 03/11/2008, -2/+17lol I see RIAA was fighting in vain back then too…
- pintomp3, on 03/11/2008, -2/+15you should have gotten the cd case that automatically turn portable.
- Muncher, on 03/11/2008, -3/+16I know I'm just stating the obvious, but wow, the technology has come a long way. I remember when I was proud of my 128 MB player (I think I gave it away a couple years ago).
- themoose, on 03/11/2008, -5/+18***** THE RIAA!
- tekiek, on 03/11/2008, -1/+12I had one too ... a cheap $250
- iamthejeff, on 03/11/2008, -2/+12My first was a 20GB Creative Zen Jukebox that I got for around $700 CAD after taxes and everything. I think I got it in 2001 or 2002. :)
- pyronik, on 03/11/2008, -1/+10haha i remember that thing, i still use it to this day for running.... I remember when I got that thing I got ***** for it because of my jealous classmates thought it was nerdy or something ha ohh now everyone has them!
- i4ybrid, on 03/11/2008, -2/+11I used to have a Diamond RIO. Those things could be expanded! I was like the first person in my Junior High to have an MP3 player. God that thing was ugly...
We should do a timeline of MP3 players...
big bricks that used AA's, 32MB flash memory, CD MP3 Players, iPods, MP4 players..etc - JMSantos, on 03/11/2008, -1/+9We do?
- DurtyJ, on 03/11/2008, -4/+11I was still using my Rio when iPods started getting popular. And everybody thought I was lame.
- imLissy, on 03/11/2008, -2/+9I still have my first mp3 player. It holds 4 whole songs.
- razordancer, on 03/11/2008, -1/+8I was an early adopter of that one too - I actually thought it was the first MP3 player (maybe the first to major market?) I remember planning out 32MB playlists to listen to while cruising around. I still have it, but don't have the cable =/
- Murfshay22, on 03/11/2008, -0/+6oh man, what a deal! I later updated mine. Added a 128 mb smartmedia chip for JUST $125.
128 mb seemed so big... how could they fit anymore space onto a chip that small?! - Vo0Ds, on 03/11/2008, -0/+6I had a casio watch mp3 player with 64meg of spacious awesomeness, like wearing a washing machine on your wrist.
- Harboggles, on 03/11/2008, -1/+7I remember having a Mini Disc player. I loved that.
- Maluka, on 03/11/2008, -1/+7I was writing for an mp3 site that was pushing the Rio. That was right after Hilary Rosen barged in shutting down sites. I had a Creative Nomad, a huge sucker that held 6 gigs and was so heavy it had to be carried in a case. 500 bucks! Now I have a Zen and it's amazing how the prices have dropped. I'm anti-iPod. That should get me some thumbs down :)
- Krosfire, on 03/11/2008, -5/+10Zune ROCKS
- candafilm, on 03/11/2008, -3/+8I only see two iPod references and they are both bashing it. I don't know what Mac fans you are talking about.
- billizm, on 03/11/2008, -1/+6And I thought my pentium running DOS 6.0 in the trunk of my car, interfaced via a TI-85 calculator running a custom program, was the first "portable" MP3 player. MP3 players have indeed come a long way. =)
- KSUdesigner, on 03/11/2008, -1/+6Remember that next time your birthday rolls around and nobody wishes you happy birthday.
- Sippi, on 03/11/2008, -1/+6Mine still works also.... was a life saver on all the road trips I had to take while playing basketball.
- inactive, on 03/11/2008, -1/+5I still have my Rio300. Beyond the sketchy battery door, it was a solid piece of kit. I remember slapping down $60 for a 32 mb card, and just today I saw a 2 gig card at Wally-World for ~$40.
Damn technology has thundered along. - strib666, on 03/11/2008, -0/+4Did you buy an HD-DVD player, or are you still holding out for a Betamax resurgence?
- mateo60, on 03/11/2008, -0/+4I had the Rio 300. It came free with my Audible membership and I thought, "These things will never catch on."
I also thought Apple would be out of business by now. I voted for George Bush in 2000. Man my judgement sucks. - Coffeedemon, on 03/11/2008, -0/+410?
- econofast, on 03/11/2008, -2/+6I think he meant the abundance of free mp3s on the web. I still wear my audiogalaxy t-shirt. That site was awesome. How about the mp3.com disc ID thing where you instered your physical disc and it unlocked the mp3 on their server? So much innovation killed off in its infancy....
The mp3 players themselves, however, are a million times better now. - LittleFishChan, on 03/11/2008, -3/+7Am I the only one that thought it was funny that when referring to the RIAA the author wrote "Recording Industry Ass. of America"?
- insllvn, on 03/11/2008, -1/+5I think it is more about the outrageous way the handled everything from Napster on. Napster had a good model, add supported digital distribution. It just didn't make enough money for all the record execs to buy jets and Bentley's and blow. The RECORDING INDUSTRY Association of America is becoming obsolete, and they could have evolved. They could have cut profits and streamlined. It would have been tough, and a lot of record execs probably would have lost their jobs, but ***** happens. Instead they tried to get (and have mostly succeeded) the government to punish people who disobeyed them, and to bully people into buying music at much more than it is worth.
The music I listen to is around 20-40 years old or older. It still sells for the same cost as newly burned CD's of the latest sensation. Music doesn't devalue? Of course the artist no longer needs that revenue, hell most of them are dead. The copyright has been renewed by greedy record execs, or the multimillionaire children and spouses of some people who were really all about contributing or rather creating something of real beauty. That is a perversion of the nature of art.
A CD costs a few pennies to manufacture, and very little to record and mass produce on modern computer and CD mass burner technology. Very little of the revenue from CD sales goes to the artist, they make most of their money off of tours and merchandise. I would pay no more that $2.50 for a CD, and do it happily if most of that went to the artist. That is my line in the sand. Music would need to be good to net an artist millions, and no one would be able to live of one hit CD that contained one flavor of the month hit song. I would go even further, and say that if I were allowed to make digital backups (I would anyway) and DVD movies cost $15 for new release blockbusters, $10 for most new release, and $5 for older classics, I would buy all the movies I wanted, instead of downloading.
I truly believe an evolution in our thinking about information property rights is in order. Art, or good art, is created because someone feels a passion for it. Britney Spears is because someone wants to make money off an attractive (she was once, I swear) minor, so real prostitution isn't an option. Art is for the benefit of society, and a true artist would starve in pursuit of it. Not only would music get better, but the market would be less saturated with crappy wannabes so real talent would persist and make plenty of cash. The internet is increasingly the place people go to discuss and discover music, and would act as an organic free form publicity machine for bands that deserve it. Like I said, I would pay for music that I felt was priced fairly, and I would have a higher tolerance for the cost if more went to the artists and less or none to the record companies. The future is cheap or free digital distribution and bands could make money from sales of merchandise and concert tickets. We were fine before copyright law, indeed we were more free than we are now, and we will be fine when they are gone.
Sorry, I got off on a rant there, but hey that is just my opinion. - Snakedal337, on 03/11/2008, -2/+5I paid $170 for my first one, I think it was 2000, 32 mb of memory, but it had an expandable card slot, up to 128 mb. I was sweet carrying around my little wallet of cards while everyone still had discs. Ha. Discs.
- astrotrain, on 03/11/2008, -1/+4He has a point....If you go up to a person on the street and say do you know what an mp3 player is... a good chance they are going to say "iPod"... Apple has enclosed the word of Mp3 to their own iPod... If you were to tell folks there was a better player, etc... they would look at you like you spoke Chinese to them.
Now if you tell people who have spend thousands of dollars on iTunes... that they just are renting their music, they will be quiet upset. They have chosen the 'blue' pill and wish to think what they bought is theres, and thats it.... that is until they leave Apple and the 'red' pill becomes a reality and they wake up to a pile of useless files because Apple and the RIAA revoked the rights. - gfnw, on 03/11/2008, -3/+6The iPhone's standards? I take it you missed all the hooplah over the the iPhone actually lacking functions of other smart phones when it was released?
- FurtThePirate, on 03/11/2008, -1/+4surprised that it took this long...
- jxfallout, on 03/11/2008, -1/+4Personally, I kinda like the Rio Diamond's appearance.
As a matter of fact, my first MP3 player was also made by Rio. The Rio Nitrus (1.5 GB), to be exact:
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4445/1724187258 ...
I've since upgraded to a Zune 80GB (I hated swapping albums to and from the player, so I simply decided to go all out in order to carry around all of my albums). - Mpwns, on 03/11/2008, -0/+3those ti-85's can do amazing things.
- inactive, on 03/11/2008, -1/+4I dont think you understand the definition of solid state.
- explnx, on 04/27/2009, -2/+5Yeah, Apple and thier sweetheart deals. Every police station and IRS office I go into, iMacs everywhere!
- inactive, on 03/11/2008, -0/+3Right because there are tons of 160 GB media players under $400. Oh wait...
- spookyttws, on 03/11/2008, -0/+3I got mine in 9th grade, I remember someone else had a Sony Minidisc player. He thought he had the superior product. Heh.
- santaliqueur, on 03/11/2008, -1/+4The only mac fan who is saying that is the hypothetical fictional mac fan you created.
-
Show 51 - 100 of 182 discussions
The Digg Toolbar for Firefox lets you Digg, submit content, and keep track of Digg even when you're not on the Digg site. Download the official 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is 