Buying Guides & Articles:Digital Media Players

They're solid-state, meaning they have no moving parts and tend to have longer audio playback time than players that use hard-disk storage... Read more

Common MP3 player features include the ability to play music, video and show photographs. Some can also be used to surf the Internet, check email and play games... Read more

They are less expensive and can be transferred between vehicles and even taken on vacation for use in rental cars... Read more

Most MP3 players can handle downloaded music videos, movies, and TV programs, but some are better at it than others... Read more

The owner's manual is also a good source of MD troubleshooting info, although their solutions are often a little obvious... Read more

Bill Detwiler, Shawn Morton, and I scoured the halls of the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show last week in Las Vegas. We looked for the hardware and software that could... Read more

For me, I'm going with the Creative Zen Portable Media Center. With a TiVo Series 2 in my very near future and a computer dedicated to video, the Zen provides a portable... Read more

The portable MP3 player has become the must-have gadget for the masses. Portable DVD has become even sexier, with larger screens and enhanced feature sets, but a new... Read more

I've always been an iPod sort of girl, but when a friend of mine whipped out his Zune at a recent barbecue, I felt a twinge of jealousy. A 3.2-inch screen? Wireless... Read more

Almost seventy-percent of you said that you would hold off buying electronics this holiday season because of the economy. Well the Consumer Electronics Association... Read more