I read recently that Olympus has discontinued production of the m:robe MR-100 and MR-500 Music Players. Does this mean Olympus is getting out of the music player market?

Olympus has frozen the development of the next generation of m:robe products to shift its resources to our core competencies, namely the imaging business and digital voice recorder business. This does not mean the immediate cessation of the m:robe product line or its support nor a complete withdrawal from the music player business. At this point no new m:robe product is currently planned. Olympus will continue to produce the DM-10 and DM-20 Digital Voice Recorders which have music functions, and has recently introduced the WS-300/310/320 WMA (Windows Media Audio) format Digital Voice Recorders, which will download and play music files from computers running Windows operating systems. Olympus may restart the portable music player product line in the future, but our present priorities are directed to our core business.  more