From Nomadworld:
Creative Labs Launches Nomad Portable Digital Audio Players
Creative also Introduces NOMADWorld, a Web Destination Dedicated to the Internet Audio Experience with Information on Products, Trends and Tools
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - April 12, 1999 - Creative Technology Ltd. (Nasdaq: CREAF), the renowned innovator of market-leading multimedia solutions for personal entertainment, today introduced its highly-anticipated Creative NOMAD line of portable digital audio players at the 1999 Spring Internet World convention in Los Angeles. Leveraging its more than 20 years of expertise in industry-leading digital audio technology, the Creative NOMAD portable players offer consumers a new way to download, transport and playback digital audio. Creative NOMAD players are offered in a solid-state, highly compact, magnesium case - designed to offer Internet audio and music enthusiasts a high-quality portable experience for digital music and audio.
Creative NOMAD's advanced features include voice recording, an FM Tuner, an LCD screen with scrolling text to view artist name and song title and rechargeable batteries. Creative NOMAD portable players are available in two versions, a 64MB and a 32MB version. Weighing in at under 2.5 ounces, both versions of the Creative NOMAD offer support for the popular MP3 (MPEG 1, layer 3) audio compression standard and deliver skip-free playback. The 64MB model offers additional media for up to two hours of near CD-quality music or up to four hours of voice recording or spoken word audio. Using the Creative Digital Audio Center, Creative NOMAD users may also convert their CD collections into MP3 files for their own personal use, giving them the ultimate in personal audio content customization. Leveraging its core competence in PC audio from semiconductors to hardware and software development, Creative is focused on offering a complete solution for the digital audio experience.
"Our goal at Creative, is to continue leveraging our expertise to offer solutions for portable digital audio and to make the experience accessible to consumers worldwide," said Hock Leow, vice president of the multimedia division at Creative. "As we move forward with future products, we intend to support all popular formats for playing back Internet music and digital audio. Today that format is MP3 and there is an abundance of support from Internet audio and music enthusiasts. With the introduction of the Creative NOMAD line, we are raising the bar for portable digital audio players as well as generating acceptance and understanding of a revolutionary new way to download digital music and audio from the Internet."
No mention of security in this release, but then again it is already
outdated. Over a month old!!!!! I still think this "near CD quality"
thing won't fly when folks begin paying for their music and, just as
I thought, they plan on supporting other compression formats.
GO EDIG!
Cheers.
Bob |
