Rio Riot Broke Out in CES

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Riot's 16MB SDRAM buffer delivers up to 12 minutes of skip protection, and saves battery life by caching the entire song into the memory. The retail package also packs with headphones, a custom carrying case, RealJukeBox and iTunes for Mac. Riot is compatible with both MP3 and WMA format, and is ready to support Audible spoken audio content in the future. Incidentally, Riot is still USB 1.1 compatible.

Riot is priced at $399.95, and will be available at the end of Feburary 2002.