I don't think many small MP3 companies will survive the next twelve months. Market conditions are very difficult right now, the economy isn't great, and the growth of compressed digital audio products is delayed by problems in the content distribution industry (3G, availability of chart content etc).

Sigh. And I thought that the Rio purchase of empeg would be a "good thing" (tm).....

Rio are not a small MP3 company - we're the market leader. Do you see how this could be considered a "good thing"?

There are certainly problems, but that's because Rio have always relied on highstreet sales channels for their bread and butter. That doesn't work for the early adopter products that empeg have brought to the range. We're working on it.

(One thing that has occured is that Car Toys might have some stock of extra mounts - I'll check).

Rob