The Rio 500 is the first MP3 player we've seen that actually looks like a proper piece of audio equipment rather than a gimmicky gadget for tech-heads. to Exit Mass-Market Portable Digital Audio Player Business" (Press release). ^ "Rio maker SONICblue files for bankruptcy protection"."NEWS WATCH A New Music Player Marries MP3's with CD's". ^ a b Hart-Davis, Guy Rhonda Holmes (2001).Silver PMP300 design with updated internalsĪlso supports Ogg Vorbis and FLAC playback Rio 800 (2000) Rio USA Portable digital audio players Release Year The Rio brand and trademarked were retained by D&M Holdings. In August 2005, D&M Holdings announced the discontinuation of its production of audio players, after it had licensed its digital audio software technology to chipmaker SigmaTel the month before. Like some other competitors in the digital audio player business, the Rio brand was unable to compete effectively against Apple's dominant iPod series of audio players. Its president from that time until March 2004 was Jeffrey Hastings. Rio Audio was based in Santa Clara, California. On March 21, 2003, SONICblue filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and then sold off its main product lines Rio Audio was sold to Japanese firm D&M Holdings, which owned audio brands such as Denon, forming part of their Digital Networks North America subsidiary. During this time, Rio's president was Jim Cady. The company referred to itself as Rio Digital Audio - in later years this changed to simply Rio Audio. Rio, Inc., a subsidiary of SONICblue, was formed in 2000. That lawsuit eventually failed, leading the way for the portable digital music industry to take off.ĭiamond Multimedia merged with S3 Graphics in 1999 - the resulting company was renamed SONICblue. Rio Audio was best known for producing the Rio PMP300 model that was the impetus for a lawsuit in 1998 by the Recording Industry Association of America. Rio was originally a brand of California based Diamond Multimedia.
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