This is the first of many reports we'll be filing from the Consumer Electronics Show, January 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. There are lots of places to get all the big announcements, so our focus will be on trends and things that catch our eye. Will Interactive Blu-Ray Save the Format? "Dreamer, a leader in interactive TV solutions, announces today that their BIDDLE™ platform will be utilized by Technicolor to offer digital content delivery services...

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Hi Dave, I was looking at your site on how to download music onto a mp3 player. I am buying one for my friend for her birthday and didn't want to get a really expensive one (she just wants it for when she runs) so I am looking at one other than iPod. I want to load it with music for her from cd's (I have a lot) but don't know how to do that....

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I've been playing with my RCA Lyra RD-2312A Mp3 player and it's pretty good, but I'm intrigued by one thing: it apparently can record FM broadcasts right off the air? Cool. How do I do that, and, when I have a recording, how can I get that off the Lyra and onto my computer?...

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I just got a cool new RCA Lyra RD2312 Mp3 player and am really impressed with how small it is. My problem: I have a Mac and am basically clueless about how to get music out of my iTunes library and onto the little device. Can you help?...

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I'm thinking about buying an Apple iPod and was actually contemplating the Dell DJ until I read that Dell's discontinued their own brand of MP3 player. Now there's another device on the horizon, the Microsoft Zune. Darn. What can you tell me about the Zune, Dave? I mean, should I wait until Christmas and buy one, or just stick with a tried-and-true iPod?...

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I love my new RCA Lycos Mp3 player but am finding that listening to the same dozen songs over and over again is getting, dare i say it, boring. A friend turned me on to audio books and now I'm eager to listen to more, but I can't afford $25-$40 per book! Are there places I can get free or really cheap audio books?...

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I get a lot of music from friends via email and it's a huge pain to have to download them from Yahoo Mail, save them on my computer, then launch a player to hear them. I heard that Google's Gmail service has a better solution. Do they, and if so, how does that work?...

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I bought a new RCA Lyra RD2312 MP3 player and have liked it overall (though don't tell my boyfriend I still have a bit of iPod Nano envy) I have found that on occasion it freezes up on me and when that happens, I don't really know what to do. I think I should be able to reboot the Lyra, but I don't know how to do that. Can you help out?...

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I have a Rio Carbon MP3 player which I really like, but I'd like to reformat the memory in the device so I can wipe all my old music and start afresh. How do I do that?...

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I have a samsung yh-820, but i brought it off e-bay, about 5mnths ago, so i have no warranty and it's gone wrong. I turn it on and it says ' connect to pc and repair with recovery utility' only problem is that it isn't recognised by my computer. I've contacted the samsung company who were very unhelpful and suggested i try a new usb cord, but i know that it isn't the usb becuase...

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I have a Sanyo mm-5600 cellphone but i cant get it to play the music that i download on to it. Can you offer me any advice or assistance, please?...

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hi. i was wondering.. I use a RCA Lyra mp3 player that i got from a friend for free. (USB cord included) and i was wondering how to download .mp3 songs onto the mp3 player. When i was reading your tip on how to do this i found that i didn't have a removable hard disk and im using windows XP so i was wondering whats wrong with my computer or where i need to...

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I have a samsung YP910... the charge died and it will no longer charge from the USB port -- can you help?...

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Dave, I just got a little Lexar LDP-200 digital music player and have no clue how to add music to the device! It says it supports MP3, WMA and WMA DRM, but I don't know what they are. I just want to have something tiny to use as a music player while running. Help?...

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