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Diamond Multimedia is an American company that specializes in many forms of multimedia technology. They have produced graphics cards , motherboards , modems , sound cards and MP3 players ; however, the company began with the production of the TrackStar, an add-on card for IBM PC compatibles which emulates Apple II computers.
S3 Graphics, Ltd. was an American computer graphics company. The company sold the Trio, ViRGE, Savage, and Chrome series of graphics processors. Struggling against competition from 3dfx Interactive, ATI and Nvidia, it merged with hardware manufacturer Diamond Multimedia in 1999.
Diamond no longer provides support for the Rio, and the last version of Microsoft Windows to work with Diamond's Rio software was Windows 98. Independently produced freeware programs such as "Dreaming of Brazil" or "RIOsitude" can still be used to upload audio files to the player.
Rio was a line of digital audio players and related audio products. Its first release, the Rio PMP300 digital music player (also known colloquially as simply the "Diamond Rio"), released by Diamond Multimedia in 1998, was one of the earliest notable and commercially successful devices in its category. [1]
Acquired by Diamond Multimedia Supra Corporation was best known as a manufacturer of modems for personal computers, but also produced a range of hardware for the Amiga and Atari ST , including hard drives , SCSI controllers, memory boards, and processor accelerators.
The Rio 500 is considered [by whom?] the first of the Second Generation MP3 digital audio player (portable digital audio player), and was produced by Diamond Multimedia. It shipped September 22, 1999. The Rio 500 was the successor of the Rio PMP300, and provided a number of user requested features (including USB and higher audio quality). There ...
Lee was born in Dangjin, near Seoul, on August 1, 1928 to a father who traded Chinese herbal medicine. [1] [2] He was the youngest of five children. [3]Leaving school at 12 because his family could not afford the fees, Lee spent his "teenage years repairing fishing boats, mixing and slicing Chinese herbs and cleaning a pawnshop."
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a lawsuit in late 1998 against Diamond Multimedia for its Rio players, [39] [82] alleging that the device encouraged copying music illegally. But Diamond won a legal victory on the shoulders of the Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios case and DAPs were legally ruled as electronic ...