Evolution of MP3-players in Pictures-3

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March 8, 2010

Needless to say, that the greatest problem of the first models of MP3-players was the amount of memory. Ceiling - 64 MB, barely enough to cover your tracks from one CD. In 2000, 1 MB of flash memory cost $ 3-4 (about $ 3500 for 1 GB) - clearly not affordable for the ordinary consumer, and the chips were much less spacious than it is today. Device Remote Solutions Personal Jukebox committed a minor revolution in 1999, as equipped with the 4.8 GB media. Affordability has been achieved using a hard disk, used in laptops. But even that decision from today’s point of view it seems viable: Personal Jukebox was heavy and expensive - $ 800.

In 2000, Creative released the Nomad Jukebox $ 500 with 6 GB of memory. Device in terms of size did not have the advantage over CD-players, but the only alternative to serve 2-GB i2Go EGo for $ 2000. In the same year, sales started MC-P10 from Sony with 64 MB of memory, which can be purchased for $ 300. Fly in the ointment can not get along - only play files encoded in a proprietary format of the company ATRAC.

While other manufacturers sought to acceptable performance technology of flash memory and HDD, Iomega decided to risk it, he reveals the world 40-MB HipZip for $ 300. It used the same magnetic disk, as in the media, Iomega Zip, costs $ 10.