Virgin Electronics Unveils 5GB HDD-Based MP3 Player

The Virgin Electronics Player 5GB is a sleek hard-drive based digital audio player weighing in at just 3.1 ounces.

The $249 Virgin Player features a built-in FM tuner and dual headphone jacks. The device also has dedicated buttons for changing the volume, skipping to the next song, or pausing the music. The product also includes the patent-pending Virgin DJ, which in just two button presses conveniently creates playlists from a customer's music collection in ways they couldn't do before.

Virgin Player features include:

• 5GB for storing more than 1,200 MP3 (2,400 WMA) songs or 80 CDs
  
• Integrated FM tuner with eight presets -- simple accessible FM tuner switch
  
• Dual headphone jacks for shared listening with a friend
  
• Dedicated power, home, back, volume, play/pause, rewind and fast-forward buttons for simple intuitive navigation
  
• Virgin Digital Music Service for synchronization, ripping, burning and digital music purchases
  
• Lithium battery for up to eight hours of play time and a weeks of standby time
  
• Simplified menu system
  
• Virgin DJ feature for listening to music in new ways -- examples include tracks just loaded, top 20 and "lost & found" to listen to the tracks played the least
  
• Virgin Quiz, a name that tune game that customers play with their own music
  
• High-speed USB 2.0 support
  
• Support for PCs running Windows XP/2000
  
• Free music from V2 Records artists Katy Rose and Charlie Mars
  

See also:

• Virgin Electronics Presents Boomtube Portable Speakers


• Volume Logic Now Supports Windows Media Player, Real Player, Musicmatch Jukebox, Nullsoft Winamp, as well as iTunes


• Dual Introduces "illumiNITEs" -- New Mobile Speaker Line

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