I stand corrected.
Since I'm in the market for a new boombox, I did some
checking around.

Late last month Philips Electronics announced the release
of their "eXpanium" cd player.  It can play standard audio CDs
as well as CD-R or RW disks with MP3 files.

Panasonic has nothing listed for MP3 playing (except PC equipment)
and Sony only has their RAM STICK Walkman (no CD)

Looks like Philips is "first to market"  with a CD __AND__ MP3 player.
This thing is sooooo new, that only Circuit City and Amazon.Com have it.
And my local Circuit City guys had no idea what I was talking about. (as
usual)

Thanks Ian.

Jim Meagher

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian C." <[log in to unmask]>



> No longer true as there are now both home & portable players that can
> playback MP3s from CDs.  There's even a DVD player on the market that
> purports to play 'em back also.
>
>
> Ian Carmichael
> >From Orlando
>
>
> > Julie,
> >
> > ........jist of the differences is that:
> >
> > MP3 files can only be plaid on a computer or RIO device.
> > Wave files can be played on any ordinary audio CD player.

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