Bye-Bye Rio

[MrDisco]

"Rio parent D&M Holdings said on Friday that the ultra-competitive business no longer fit its market strategy."

"D&M Holdings--which also owns high-end home audio brands including Denon and Marantz, and is close to acquiring Boston Acoustics--said the portable MP3 player business required too much investment, and didn't offer enough return, to warrant continuing."

Score one for the iPod! :) (ooh i'm going to get flamed for that)

[snplow]

Rios were way overpriced. I remember the time when the Diamond Rio came out and it was friggin expensive and pratically useless (only 32mb of space). It didn't suit the publics needs/wants therefore it died.

[Defiant]

My Rio Carbon that I bought here in the ebay deal is great. Rio overall made good products.

[sfu_lifer]

Rio's are cheap compared to the overpriced iRiver.

[Meta|Gear]

Rio's are pretty good but there 90 day warranty is a joke

[Headhunter]

Surprised that they're leaving the market.

Even more surprised that Marantz is still around...who knew?

[yatko]

The redicilous 90 day warranty killed them. Good thing that another POS is dead

[sporb]

Rios were way overpriced. I remember the time when the Diamond Rio came out and it was friggin expensive and pratically useless (only 32mb of space). It didn't suit the publics needs/wants therefore it died.

The rio's were great, even the 32 meg version.

[duckdown]

RIO? POS, IMO

(its 3 letter anogram day)