Analysts: Media Player Too Ingrained
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Microsoft Corp. has strategically nurtured its Windows Media Player, making it by far the world's most dominant program for playing digital music and video on computers. Rival RealNetworks Inc.'s product ranks a very distant second.
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PERSPECTIVE This week's revelations from Microsoft concerning its forthcoming Zune portable media player have been appropriately called a "non-announcement announcement." But analysts tell BetaNews there's still good reason to believe this bewildering new market entry could actually succeed.
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Hard drive-based audio player will get a new look and a lower price.
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For the second time in eight days, new critical vulnerabilities that could be used to hijack machines have been fingered in the RealPlayer media player.
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Vulnerabilities in Apple's widely used QuickTime media player software can expose both Macs and Windows PCs to attack.
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There's plenty going on at the media giant, and not all of it is welcome.
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Microsoft's new Zune media player has some features that will distinguish it from Apple's market-leading iPod, analysts said. But whether it's cool enough to rule is an open question.
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The new breed of portable media players is finally here, but the devices are too small to comfortably watch movies on and too bulky to compete with my MP3 music player.
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and PC users no longer had to choose between Windows Media Player&#39;s inadequacies or Real or Musicmatch&#39;s annoyances.
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Blu-ray may have taken a commanding lead in the next-generation format war, but the company has a big problem looming with outdated players.
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Former MTV host Adam Curry explains why "podcasts" are rapidly filling people's music player hard drives.
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American parents are troubled about how much their kids play and  interact with media including everything from downloading music onto  iPods, social networking on the Internet, playing video games to  watching TV.
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Portable Media Center -- a new, Microsoft-conceived handheld device that presents video, photos and music -- would be a decent idea if there weren't such things as lampposts. Or street signs. Or trees. Or other cars. -Rob Pegoraro
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The new THX-certified digital media recorder may wallop your wallet. In Gear Factor.
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A software slipup in RealNetworks' music player means that Windows, Mac and Linux computers could be compromised by a movie.
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Based on one Wall Street analyst&#39;s findings, the popularity of Apple&#39;s iPod is exceeding that of Sony&#39;s Walkman during the 80&#39;s and 90&#39;s.
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The new Zune digital-media player may be an all-Microsoft production, but it feels like it came from two companies.