The Rio PMP-300 portable MP3 player. The top view shows the face of the player. The bottom view shows the edge of the player (including its proprietary connector) and the included parallel-port adaptor.
The Rio PMP300 is one of the first portable consumer MP3 digital audio players, and the first commercially successful one. Produced by Diamond Multimedia, it was introduced September 15, 1998[1] as the first in the "Rio" series of digital audio players, and it shipped later that year.
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The RioPMP300 is one of the first portable consumer MP3 digital audio players, and the first commercially successful one. Produced by Diamond Multimedia...
into the educational computer market. Diamond's innovation created the RioPMP300, one of the first consumer MP3 players, but they soon sold their MP3 player...
Rio was a line of digital audio players and related audio products. Its first release, the RioPMP300 digital music player (also known colloquially as...
Diamond Multimedia. It shipped September 22, 1999. The Rio 500 was the successor of the RioPMP300, and provided a number of user requested features (including...
Francisco claiming the Diamond Multimedia RioPMP300 player violated the 1992 Audio Home Recording Act. The RioPMP300 was significant because it was the second...
radio system. It retailed for $599 and was a commercial failure. The RioPMP300 from Diamond Multimedia was introduced in September 1998, a few months...
bought this program, and used it as the basis for iTunes. September 1998 – RioPMP300 MP3 player is shipped by Diamond Multimedia. Its popularity leads the...
(DAPs) based on flash memory or hard disk storage became available (The RioPMP300 from Diamond Multimedia is widely considered to be the first mass market...
Systems, which is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, was released and the RioPMP300 was sold afterward in 1998, despite legal suppression efforts by the RIAA...
against Diamond Multimedia in an attempt to block the release of the new RioPMP300, arguing that the MP3 digital audio player is a music piracy device. The...
fund. Thanks to a precedent established in a 1998 lawsuit involving the RioPMP300 player, most MP3 players are deemed "computer peripherals" and are not...
The RIAA filed suit to enjoin the manufacture and distribution of the RioPMP300, one of the first portable MP3 players, because it did not include the...
the year in 1999 for the first mass-marketed MP3 player, the Diamond RioPMP300. In January 1995, Lee sold a majority stake in Diamond to Summitt Associates;...
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