What didn't happen in the future

On 27/06/07, Ensor <classiccmp at memory-alpha.org.uk> wrote: Almost on topic(only a year to go), I've somewhere still got my old Diamond Rio PMP 300 mp3 player - One of the first available; certainly around here. Came with a massive 32MB internal memory (but could take an additional 32MB Smartmedia card but I never had one). Cost me best part of ?100 new. ($200). I pretty much stopped using it when I upgraded the Windows PC as the drivers were Win95 only - parallel port interface - and didn't work under NT. I could only get about 4 songs on it at a barely acceptable encoding rate of 128Kbs - the software defaulted to 96Kbs, ISTR, which was dire. I did once set up a not-so-old-at-the-time 80486 based PC to play mp3s.. found some DOS based software that was quite nice; even faded one track into the next. I couldn't play them under windows - it was just too slow! These days I do everything in MP3 at 192Kbs or above.. sounds fine to me with my non-audiophile ears.. (and I just picked up a little 1GB player for ?15 [$30].. that beats the mp3 capable portable cd-player we bought last time in both capacity and price! They'll be giving them away free with corn flakes next!) Rob