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October 21, 2004
Foldable Portable Video Player: Jace DDP-1500
Korean Jace offers a 20GB Portable video player, where the display can be flipped up. The DDP-1500 measures 120x90x30mm and the color TFT display measures 3.5". Besides playing video (MP4, WMV, Divx) it also has Wi-Fi and has a web browser. Data is transferred via USB 2.0. To have Wi-Fi on the portable video player is nice. To be able to surf the web even nicer. Wonder if it would be possible to run a bit torrent client to directly download videos onto the PVP.
More details on DAPReview. They also talk about two other new PVPs from asia.
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October 19, 2004
Ama Technologies sells MobiNote DVX-POD in USA
The MobiNote DVX-POD 7010 we reported about is selling in November in the USA for $599.
Ama Technologies is selling the DVX-POD 7010 directly on their site. The 20 GB DVX-POD has one of the largest screens of the available portable video players with 7" (6.5" usable). The resolution is 720 x 480.
More details in Ama Technologies press-release.
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October 13, 2004
Olympus m:robe MR-500i Digital Media Player
Olympus surprises with exiting fusion portable media devices.
The MR-500i has a digital camera and a 20GB HDD. It plays WMA audio. It seems not to support Video playback, which is a bit dissapointing. On the positive side it has a touch-screen interface. It suppors things like touching the screen to take a photo. The devices also has features to create photo slide shows with music. The Olympus m:robe connects to TVs for viewing on a bigger screen.
Olympus also announced a smaller 5GB music player supporting WMA and MP3.
When and if those Olympus gadgets ever see the outside of Japan is not clear.
More details in Olympus Press-Release (Japanese). PhotographyBlog published a english translation of it. See also the Olympus robe site (Japanese).
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October 11, 2004
Maxian MP-2220 Video and Music Player
DAPreview has indepth details about Korean Maxian's MP-2220 hard-disc MP3 Player.
The Maxian MP-2220 features a 2.22 inch color TFT LCD (QVGA) - 320x240 pixels. It comes with either a 20GB or 40GB hard-drive. Besides MP3 it also plays videos and also records video. The Maxian supports DivX. More details on DAPreview.
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October 4, 2004
Landis and Gyr VSV-18A PVP with 10-in-1 Card Reader
Tawainese Landis & Gyr offers a PVP with built-in 10-in-1 memory card reader.
The VSV-18A plays MP3, MPEG-1 and AVI files (MP4 via firmware upgrade). The player features a 2 inch TFT LCD (558 x 234 pixels) and 10-in-1 PC card reader. The 20GB/40GB PVP connects via USB 2.0 to a PC. The Multi memory card reader feature supports CompactFlash I/II, SmartMedia, SecureDigital, MemoryStick (MS), MS Pro, MS Duo, MultiMediaCard and MiniDisc cards. The Landis & Gyr gadget has also a photo viewer functionality.
It measures 132mm x 70mm x 30mm and weighs 245g.
More details on Landis & Gyr site.