Monday, December 26, 2005
Welcome back Commodore
It's Christmas and Commodore has announced its own comeback.
Launching at CES (which, naturally, we will be covering with the same intensity that a Bloodhound would sniff out Black Pudding) are three new products from the 80s icon. Previously, it had been messing about with some fairly ropey looking digital media players, but now its making a real effort.
Still a massive distance from its personal computer roots, the Multimedia Tower and MediaBox stick to the company’s reinvented audio and video roots. The former is a business orientated device which compiles music from a store and lets customers browse, listen to and eventually purchase content for direct download onto their mp3 weapon of choice. We’re not sure how this is meant to compete with online sites like iTunes, but then again we’re not sure how high street record stores compete these days either…
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