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July 12, 2006

New Portable Player From SupportPlus Group

The Dutch company SupportPlus has a new palm-sized video player, with a 20 GB hard drive. This company curiously has a knack for creating products with indistinct names, like the Rechargeable Handheld Vacuum Cleaner, so there's no snazzy name for their new PVP. It's just referred to as the "20gb portable media player".

It not only plays a wide variety of video and music formats, it also has a built-in digital camera, with a 1.3 megapixel resolution, typical of gadgets that throw in a digi cam on the side. Obviously there's no memory card slot, but there is USB functionality to easily fill that 20 GB of space. Full specifications are as follows:

* Capacity: 20GB internal 1.8" HDD
* LCD: 3.5" TFT
* Video resolution: MAX. 640 x 480
* Video frame rate: MAX. 30fps support
* Video recording: 640 x 480 (30fps)/ 320 x 240 (30fps)
* File support: MPEG4, AVI, DIVX, MP3, WMA, ASF, OGG, JPEG, BMP, GIF
* PC interface: USB ver. 2.0/1.1
* MP3 bit rate: 8~320Kbps and VBR
* Frequency response: 20Hz~20KHz
* Camera module: 1.3M pixel CMOS
* USB2.0 mass storage device
* Download speed: Max. 480Mbps
* Playback time: Up to 5 hrs (Video)
* Charging time: about 3 hrs (cradle or DC adaptor)
* Built-in rechargeable Li-Polymer battery (3.7V, 2700mAn)
* High quality music sound (S/N ratio: 90dB, THD:<0.25%)
* FM tuner: default: 76~108MHz (worldwide CH)
* MP3 encoding: 32Kbps (Voice Rec)/ 128Kbps (line-Rec)
* Headphone output: 12mW + 12mW
* Internal speaker output: 0.5W + 0.5W

This is currently being sold in Holland at various retail prices, for a few hundred euros.

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Via DAPreview

Posted by mark at 8:04 AM