Dell Announces Music-Player Replacement, Recycling Offer; Customer Choice, Value Center Stage in a New Dell DJ Offer.ROUND ROCK, Texas -- It'll be a bright summer for digital music fans tired of fading batteries. In "A Deal that Rocks," Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) is offering 15 Gigabyte (GB)(a) Dell(tm) Digital Jukebox (1) Software for managing music files. Also called a "digital music manager," "music manager," or just "jukebox," it lets users organize MP3 and other audio files into playlists, play the songs, rip CD tracks to MP3 and other formats, burn CDs and download titles to portable (DJ) music players for $99 after mail-in rebate rebate, partial refund of the total price paid for goods or services. In the United States, rebates were historically given by railroads to favored shippers as a return on transportation charges. to customers who send in an iPod for recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. for a limited time(b). Customers can also get free DJ shipping, 25 free Musicmatch downloads and a copy of Microsoft(R) Plus! Digital Media Edition and Windows Media Player Digital jukebox software for Windows from Microsoft that plays a variety of audio, video and streaming formats including MP3, WMA, CD audio and MIDI. Starting with Version 6.2 in 1999, the Windows Media Rights Manager was added for securing copyrighted content. 9, for a limited time. The Dell DJ(tm) has up to 20 hours(c) of battery life before needing a charge, about two times that of the iPod(d). DJ users also can choose to download their favorite music from the many MP3 and Windows Media-based download services on the Web. With A Deal that Rocks, music fans simply buy a 15GB DJ at its regular price of $199, download a $100 mail-in rebate form(e), and send in their completed mail-in rebate form with the discarded dis·card v. dis·card·ed, dis·card·ing, dis·cards v.tr. 1. To throw away; reject. 2. a. To throw out (a playing card) from one's hand. b. iPod to be recycled.. Dell last fall launched 15 and 20 GB versions of the DJ. The players each hold over 7,000 and 9,000 songs(f), respectively. For more information on the DJ, go to www.dell.com/dj. About Dell Dell Inc. (Nasdaq:DELL) is a premier provider of products and services required for customers worldwide to build their information-technology and Internet infrastructures. Company revenue for the past year totaled $43.5 billion. Dell, through its direct business model, designs, manufactures and customizes products and services to customer requirements, and offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals. Information on Dell and its products can be obtained at www.dell.com. Pricing, specifications, availability, and terms of offers may change without notice. Taxes, fees and shipping charges are extra, and vary. Dell cannot be responsible for pricing or other errors, and reserves the right to cancel orders cancel order A customer order to a broker that cancels an earlier, unfilled order given by the customer. arising from such errors. (a) One GB equals 1 billion bytes; actual formatted capacity will be less. (b) Limit one Dell DJ mail in per rebate per customer. Request must be postmarked within 30 calendar days of product ship date. Any claims postmarked after 30 calendar days of product ship date will not be processed. If terms and conditions are not met, rebate will not be sent. Any purchase that is returned or exchanged is no longer eligible for a rebate, and amount of rebate may be deducted de·duct v. de·duct·ed, de·duct·ing, de·ducts v.tr. 1. To take away (a quantity) from another; subtract. 2. To derive by deduction; deduce. v.intr. from credit for returned item. Only actual purchaser of the qualifying products may participate in this rebate program. This offer can be combined with select other offers. (c) Battery life is based on continuous play. (d) Battery life estimates as of 6/24/04. Check Web sites for current information. (e) Rebate coupon must be postmarked within 30 calendar days of your system ship date and rebate checks are ordinarily processed within 8-10 weeks. See www.dell4me.com/rebates or call 1-800-624-9897 for rebate coupon and details at www.dell4me.com/ADealThatRocks. (f) Assumes audio format is 64kbps WMA (Windows Media Audio) An audio compression method from Microsoft. Known originally as MSAudio, this proprietary format competes with the MP3 and AAC methods. WMA encodes rapidly and is known to be especially effective at low bit rates. encoding See encode. with average song length of four minutes. Dell is a trademark of Dell Inc. Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. |
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