How many years before MP3 becomes king?

how can mp3s pass anything if they're made by by subtracting information from higher resolution files?

mp3 is lossy. it produces a file that is smaller than the original because bits are thrown out. what i'm trying to say is that mp3s are always encoded from somewhere else. that "somewhere else" is always better than the resulting mp3. there are plenty of other lossless alternatives that are much better than mp3 such as flac and shn.

to surpass sacd and dvd-a you have to come up with a new format.

can you provide a link to this article?

if you're capable of reading this thread you probably already have a pc that can do everything that mp3 player can do, provided you also download 1 or 2 free programs.

$800 dollars is INSANE for a Celeron processor and a 20 GB hard drive. Read further and you will see that they charge you $400.00 for an additional 10 GB. That's criminal! Hard drive space is currently 50cents per GB, not 40 dollars! jeez!

i think the player is geared toward computer illiterate folk who dont realize that its highway robbery.

it also sucks that it wont play the most popular types of lossless compression: flac and shn.