Oct
5
Briefly: iRiver T20 & T30 reviews, SigmaTel’s video-capable chipset, Royalty wars on digital music sales, iTunes 5.02 imminent?, iRiver’s Tivo offer, Reject iPod engravings
- The Register reviews iRiver’s T20 and T30 models (the T30 gets a 90/100 rating for doing the job just right; the T20 gets a 70/100 rating mainly for its “irritating” controls) [via]
- SigmaTel’s video-capable chipsets (thanks to firmware supported by Socany, a chinese MP3 player manufacturer; the road to low-cost flash-based MP3 players that do video too
openswidens) - Artists’ managers, royalty collectors turn on iTunes (artists take 4.5p out of every 99p iTMS download; that’s 6% compared to the 12% the get from physical singles; of course, Apple & iTunes is not to put the blame on since royalties are the record labels’ job; also read The Times’ report)
- iTunes 5.02 imminent? (“shortly after midnight on Friday, users of iTunes 5.0.1 reported receiving notices that they could update to iTunes 5.0.2 [...]”; version 5.0.2 was nowhere to be found though)
- iRiver Offers Free TiVo with Purchase (“iRiver is offering its $500 PMC-120 media player with a free 40-hour Series2 TiVo and 1 year of service pre-paid. The deal expires October 15.”; it’s got a 3.5-inch display, 20 gigs of space and a crappy battery—pick and choose) [via]
- Rejected iPod Engravings (why, oh why, was “Rip, Mix, & Burn Down RIAA Headquarters” rejected?)
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