VISTA, Calif. – Computergeeks.com, a leading business-to-consumer e-commerce
site specializing in unique computer-related products and peripherals, today
announced that it had beaten it’s previously announced date of May 15th and
began taking orders for and shipping it’s first allocation of Genica
Portable MP3/CD Players on May 8th.
The Genica MP3/CD Player, which received a five-star rating on the MP3.COM
Hardware Review web page, is the same size and shape as a standard portable
Compact Disc player, and weighs about 11 Ounces.
What makes this player different is the electronics inside the unit that
enable it to play back music stored in the .MP3 file format. Because .MP3
music files are digitally-compressed, it is possible to squeeze dozens of
near-CD quality songs on a single recordable (CD-R) or re-writable (CD-RW)
disc.
“Consumers are clamoring for digital music solutions. Innovative and
reasonably-priced products like this further validate the .MP3 format for
digital music distribution and serve to fuel the demand for additional
related
products and services. Not to mention the fact that being able to store
over
100 near CD-quality songs on a single disc and play them back anywhere you
go
is pretty significant,” said Michael Robertson, CEO of MP3.COM.
Previously, .MP3 music files could only be replayed on standard desktop
PCs or in “solid-state” portables of very limited capacity.
“Before, when you wanted to listen to .MP3 music on the go, you were
limited to the ten songs or so that the flash memory in your portable player
would hold. Now you can put ten times that many on a single CD and play it
in
the car, at the gym, wherever,” said Scott Kusel, President of
Computergeeks.com. “We see where the road to music’s future is headed, and
we
intend to be on it. The Genica Portable MP3/CD Player is our first step,”
Kusel added.
“Demand for this product is incredible, and this is the first portable
.MP3 player to achieve any kind of significant distribution volume in the
US.
Not only meeting, but beating, our announced ship-date by a week is huge,
because so many other companies have promised similar products for so long
and
have been unable to get to market on time, let alone ahead of schedule,”
said
Chris Herzog, Vice President of Electronic Commerce Development for
Computergeeks.com.
Computergeeks.com, headquartered in Vista, CA, is a leading
business-to-consumer e-commerce site specializing in providing
computer-related excess inventory, manufacturer-closeouts, and high-demand
computer components and peripherals at highly-discounted prices to
tech-savvy,
“Geeky,” consumers.
