he first THOMSON product ready to take full advantage of mp3PRO, the enhanced version of the mp3 music compression format that doubles the amount of music in memory and improves the audio quality of compressed music files, will be the new LYRA Personal Jukebox (PDP 2800), a portable mp3 player with a 10GB hard-disc drive that will hold hundreds of albums, thousands of songs, and can even be used as a remote hard drive to backup data files for the computer. The LYRA Personal Jukebox will play mp3 files and will be mp3PRO-ready. Additionally, Thomson is offering a variety of flash-based mp3 players and a a personal CD player and five-disc digital minisystem that permit playback of mp3-encoded compact discs (created by computer).