2004 mp3 players

2004 was a good year for mp3 players: starting with the rumour of a mini iPod. Later they decided to give the old ipod a hard drive upgrade and a colour screen and call it iPod Photo, (nice if you want to view slideshows on tv).
Creative, iRiver, philips, rio also produce stand alone small attractive mp3 players, some even do video:

link	company	name	capacity	price	special features
link	Creative	Zen Touch	20gb	169.99
link	Creative	Zen Xtra	30gb	169.99
link	Creative	Zen Micro	5gb	169.99	(multiple colours)
link	Creative	MuVo TX FM	512mb	99.99	tuner, voice recorder
link	mpio	HD200	5gb	169.99	tuner, voice recorder
link	Sony	NW-HD3	20gb	219.99
link	Sony	NW-HD1	20gb	199.99	(not quite an mp3 player?)
link	Sony	NW-E99	1gb	139.99
link	iRiver	20GB	20gb	199.99	tuner, voice recorder
link	iRiver	H320 Lite	30gb	219.99	colour, tuner, encoder
link	iRiver	H-140	40gb	239.99	tuner, voice recorder
link	iRiver	iFP-795	512mb	129.99	tuner, voice recorder, alarm
link	iRiver	iFP-895	512mb	129.99	same as 795, only curvier
link	Philips	HDD070	2gb	127.6	tuner.
link	Philips	Key015	512mb	139.99	31g, small
link	Archos	AV200	20gb	319.99	colour, video.
link	Aiwa	HZ-WS2000	1.5gb hdd	121.99	shock proof'
link	Rio	Karma	20gb	189.99
link	Rio	Nitrus	1.5gb hdd	119.99	tuner

And finally, if you want cheap, small, light, virtually unlimited storage*.. you can go for integrated memory card readers that also do mp3 playback (thanks to josh, as I didn't know this category existed.. definitely good for cheap):

here is one:
link DigitFab DBHSL Silver Aluminium (req. SD/MMC) £22.77 from microdirect.

another: link
HAMA DMP-100 (req. SD/MMC card), with headset, £29 from pixmania.co.uk.

a third: link Pocki 5 in 1 reader, £35.24 fom ebuyer.

and finally: link
ebuyer 7 in 1 reader, £17.62 from ebuyer.

So, if you had to choose between something that can display photos on a tidgy screen (ipod photo, £399, apple), or a vivitar hdd video recorder for £292.58 from microdirect, what would be more fun??