AMD chips in for portable video players

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AMD targets portable video players

AMD targets portable video players 01/04/2005 01:08 PM
ZDNet UK Jan 4 2005 4:53PM GMT

Jobs on Portable Video Players

Jobs on Portable Video Players 01/09/2004 09:48 PM
David Pogue writes (New York Times) on an interview with Steve Jobs at the MacWorld Expo. The topic of portable Video Players came up and Jobs take...

Video Players Go Portable (PC World)

Video Players Go Portable (PC World) 06/03/2004 10:50 AM
PC World - Success of the IPod prompts companies to produce mobile multimedia devices.

AMD unveils chip for portable video
players

AMD unveils chip for portable video
players 01/03/2005 05:37 PM
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has developed a low-power chip that it thinks will make portable video players more compelling by reducing the time needed to transfer content to the devices. The company is expected to announce the chip at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Monday.

Two S-Media Portable Video Players:
JoyToGo and Black Diamond

Two S-Media Portable Video Players:
JoyToGo and Black Diamond 06/08/2004 07:31 AM

DAPReview has shots of a couple of small, hard drive-based video players, both with planned release dates around September. The first is the JoyToGo (pictured left, and which I could have sworn we'd seen before, but Google says otherwise), built around either a 20 or 30GB 1.8" hard drive, with a 480 x 234 2.5" LCD screen, as well as built-in speakers and SD slot. It will also allow direct recording of video in MPEG-4 at rates of 640x480 at 25fps -- not bad, consider that's larger than its own screen.

And even though it's only a mock-up at the moment, I can't help but be excited by the 'Black Diamond' player, built around a tiny 1" hard drive with an as-yet-unspecified capacity. It only has a 294 x 228 resolution (with the same 2.5" screen size as the JoyToGo), and no speakers or anything like that, but if they could bump the resolution of the Black Diamond up to 480 x 234, I would be happy -- honored, even -- to carry around the little player in my pocket.

Both players are from S-Media, the makers of the moderately successful CoCoPod hard disk player.
Read [DAPreview]

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CoCoPod Music Player Reviewed [Gizmodo]
Shimy Shimy Cocopod [Gizmodo]

Flash-Memory MP3 Players: Portable Audio
Players Offer Music To Go, On The Cheap

Flash-Memory MP3 Players: Portable Audio
Players Offer Music To Go, On The Cheap 05/26/2004 06:02 AM
The Rio Cali is our favorite player of the bunch -- hands-down. This player is especially appealing for its great functionality and excellent interface design. By Mathew Honan, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

More Linux Portable Media Players On The
Way

More Linux Portable Media Players On The
Way 01/03/2005 07:06 PM

Companies toy with portable media
players

Companies toy with portable media
players 07/19/2004 09:35 AM
ZDNet Jul 19 2004 2:13PM GMT

Panasonic D-snap Audio Portable Players

Panasonic D-snap Audio Portable Players 03/19/2005 02:45 AM

Panasonic introduced a few portable audio players yesterday that we forgot to mention (although they leaked way back in October), in the "D-snap Audio" line. We'll start with the "SV-SD100V" and "SV-SD90" square-shaped players with SD card slot (and only an SD card slot). They also have a mirrored organic EL display, and compatibility with MP3, WMA and AAC. In fact, the SV-SD100V throws in an FM tuner and voice recorder.

Also announced were the "SV-MP720V" and "SV-MP730V." Their interesting "two block" design actually won Panasonic a design award. The two units vary only in capacity, color variations and price. Both are MP3 and WMA compatible and have an FM tuner/voice recorder you probably won't ever use. A sort of disappointing 10-hour battery life on these.

New Panasonic player roundup [TechJapan]

TiVo Hits The Road With Portable Players

TiVo Hits The Road With Portable Players 01/03/2005 05:36 PM
A new mobile infrastructure sprang into being on Monday, with manufacturers introducing a new line of video players capable of playing Tivo-recorded videos, all based on a new embedded processor from Advanced Micro Devices.

Portable Media Players Seen as Hot
Holiday Item

Portable Media Players Seen as Hot
Holiday Item 07/17/2004 01:23 PM
Boston Globe Jul 17 2004 5:01PM GMT

Toshiba to use Intel chips for HD DVD
players

Toshiba to use Intel chips for HD DVD
players 04/11/2005 11:37 PM
Reuters India Apr 12 2005 4:21AM GMT

Microsoft's Portable Media Players Begin
Shipping

Microsoft's Portable Media Players Begin
Shipping 09/02/2004 02:12 AM
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday will announce that the first third-party Portable Media Center media players will hit the streets.

Sony will support MP3 in portable
digital music players

Sony will support MP3 in portable
digital music players 09/23/2004 11:15 AM
Xeni Jardin: Sony confirmed yesterday that it plans to add native MP3 support to digital music players, in a move that will likely help the products compete more effectively with more popular competitors like Apple's iPod. Until now, the Sony devices were designed to only play files encoded with Sony's proprietary Atrac music file format.

The shift from reliance on its proprietary format will begin with flash memory-based players, the electronics giant said, but plans are still being finalized on how and when products will add MP3 support. CNET News.com affiliate ZDNet France first reported of the change in Sony's strategy for the European market. U.S. representatives said the company is making similar plans here.

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Portable Media Players Seen as Hot
Holiday Item (Reuters)

Portable Media Players Seen as Hot
Holiday Item (Reuters) 07/17/2004 07:59 AM
Reuters - One of the hottest items on U.S. toy store shelves this holiday season might not be a toy at all, but a portable entertainment player, experts say.

11% of American adults own portable
digital music players

11% of American adults own portable
digital music players 03/14/2005 06:04 PM

A new report from the Pew Internet and American Life project finds that eleven percent of adults own a portable digital music player, such as an Apple iPod.

( via TameTheWeb )

Loading Digital Music: Popular Portable
Players Create Cottage Industry

Loading Digital Music: Popular Portable
Players Create Cottage Industry 02/01/2005 09:35 PM

While that process may seem relatively simple for savvy computer users, Robins knows there are many more consumers who don't have the time to convert an entire collection, especially if ripping one CD takes five to 10 minutes. By Benny Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle

Flexing gaming power Speedy new chips
lure players to high-end PCs

Flexing gaming power Speedy new chips
lure players to high-end PCs 12/11/2003 07:19 AM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 11 2003 6:20AM ET

Jobs On Video Players

Jobs On Video Players 04/29/2004 12:39 AM
"Music is a wonderful thing because A, it's music, and B, because it can be listened to as a background activity. And a lot of these other things that people are talking about building in, such as video and things like that, are foreground activities." By Todd Bishop, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (via MyAppleMenu)

More from CES: Endless personal video
players

More from CES: Endless personal video
players 01/16/2004 10:57 AM
We saw an endless number of personal video players at CES last week, so many that it's hard to keep them straight. The ones that...

More Personal Video Players from
Computex

More Personal Video Players from
Computex 06/04/2004 12:34 PM

The Register's Tony Smith has even more about all the personal video players that are popping up at Computex, including this very iPodesque X-Fram II from TwinMOS (also sold as the Mobinote 7010) with a 7-inch, 754 x 480 LCD and a 20GB 1.8-inch hard drive. They are even calling its bundled app 'DVX-POD,' just so you don't mistake their intentions. It's got an AV port for on-the-fly MPEG4 encoding (although only at 352 x 288) and can play back a wealth of formats, including Divx 3/4/5 (although no word for XviD), WMV, and Quicktime 6, which is a rarity.
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Steve Jobs on personal video players

Steve Jobs on personal video players 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
In an interview with New York Times tech writers David Pogue and John Markoff, Steve Jobs is cagier than ever about whether or not a...

Jobs on hand-held video players

Jobs on hand-held video players 01/09/2004 10:08 PM
The New York Times' David Pogue sat in on an interview (not yet published) this week with Steve Jobs in which the Apple CEO gave his thoughts on hand-held video players...

Personal video devices to challenge
music players

Personal video devices to challenge
music players 06/04/2004 05:57 AM
Computex Watch out, iPod - PDA makers, too

AMD chips in for video

AMD chips in for video 01/05/2005 03:54 PM
AMD said it will support DivXNetworks' DivX Connected Certification Program.

Archos to make personal video players
that can copy from DVDs

Archos to make personal video players
that can copy from DVDs 12/02/2003 01:23 AM
One of the biggest problems with personal video players is that there isn't a whole lot of legal content to watch on them. Because it's illegal to copy a DVD to a computer, and most people won't want one of these things just to watch home videos, the most likely source of content for these things right now is P2P file-sharing networks like Kazaa, where it's not too hard to find MPEGs of The Sopranos and The Simpsons. To get around all that, manufacturer Archos is going to start putting special chips from Texas Instruments into their personal video players that supposedly make it possible to copy movies from DVDs and watch them on the player. Read...

MSN Debuts Portable Video Downloads

MSN Debuts Portable Video Downloads 03/30/2005 02:09 PM
Microsoft on Wednesday launched a new video download service designed for Windows Mobile-based devices, including Portable Media Centers, smartphones and Pocket PCs. The subscription service offers programming from over 10 partners, including MSNBC, iFilm and MTV.

Is portable video ready for its closeup?

Is portable video ready for its closeup? 09/02/2004 05:24 PM
Sympatico Sep 2 2004 9:21PM GMT

Will consumers tune in to portable
video?

Will consumers tune in to portable
video? 07/20/2004 08:09 AM
The first portable digital video players are coming to a market that might not be ready.

Portable video follows iPod's footsteps

Portable video follows iPod's footsteps 07/20/2004 07:38 AM
ZDNet Jul 20 2004 11:51AM GMT

mPack 800 Portable Video Player

mPack 800 Portable Video Player 12/24/2004 12:16 PM

Another day, another portable media player. This mPack P800 is of hearty, Taiwanese stock, with a heavy-lifting video compressor that will save video at resolutions even higher than its native 320 by 240 pixel screen. That's handy for playing back the videos on a better quality screen, after either copying them off the device or playing them via its video out. It supports a variety of formats (including OGG Vorbis and Xvid) and comes in 40GB or 80GB models. If the screen isn't a total travesty, it'll be a contender—if it makes it stateside.

Product Page [mPack via PVP4 U]

Video content goes portable with new MSN
service

Video content goes portable with new MSN
service 03/30/2005 05:20 PM
Microsoft Corp. has launched MSN Video Downloads, which will provide daily television programming for download to Windows Mobile-based devicess. MSN Video Downloads is available in the United States today at a cost of $19.95 for a one-year premium membership to the MSN Video Downloads service which provides access to all available videos. In addition, people can access a limited amount of free content without a paid membership. Subscribers to the premium service will be able to select the content they want to receive from the Web site. Digital videos are downloaded daily to a Windows Media Player 10 library, ready to be synchronized with Portable Media Centers and other devices. The video content is compliant with PlaysForSure devices that play video, and is optimized for Portable Media Centers and compatible with Smartphones and Pocket PCs that support Windows Media Player 10 Mobile. New with the final launch of the service is the ability to select the specific content downloaded to the subscriber's Windows XP-based PC each day. Subscribers can also activate a new automatic deleting feature that specifies how long video from the MSN Video Downloads directory will remain on their PC, thus avoiding a large backlog of clips.

NeoSol Portable Video Player and TV

NeoSol Portable Video Player and TV 08/11/2004 08:44 PM

Yet Another Portable Video Player:
Talitor PV-330

Yet Another Portable Video Player:
Talitor PV-330 07/06/2004 03:09 PM

It won't win any prizes for being ugly -- oh wait, yes it will; congratulations! -- but here's another portable video player, this time from the UK: the Talitor PV-330. It's got the usual stuff, 40GB hard drive and a 3.5-inch LCD with a fairly low quality screen (looks like 480 x 234, although it can't even decode at that resolution). In fact, after factoring in the £325 purchase price I can't think of much to recommend this thing at all, unless you've resigned yourself to stepping into the portable video future in the most wretched way possible. (Thanks, Joe!)
Read - Sales Page [PeripheralCornerUK]
Read - Product Page [Talitor]
Read - UK reseller unveils 'video iPod' [TheRegister]

iRiver PMP-100 offers portable video
playback

iRiver PMP-100 offers portable video
playback 08/03/2004 09:26 AM
iRiver on Tuesday announced plans to ship its PMP-100 this August. Short for Portable Media Player, the PMP-100 features a 3.5-inch color display and the ability to play back AVI, MPEG-4, MP3, WMA, WAV, ASF and JPEG files, and is available in 20GB and 40GB capacities. It's compatible with Macs and PCs. The PMP-100 sports a USB 2.0 interface, a line-in jack, TV-out port, built-in speakers, FM tuner and integrated voice recorder. It also comes with a rechargeable and replaceable Lithium-Ion battery. The PMP-100 measures 5.47 x 3.31 x 1.25 inches (139 x 85 x 31.7 mm) and weighs 9.88 ounces (280 g). The PMP-100 costs US$499.99 for the 20GB model and $599.99 for the 40GB model. The Web site had not been updated with information about the PMP-100 as MacCentral posted this article.

Gates takes aim at Jobs over portable
video

Gates takes aim at Jobs over portable
video 09/07/2004 11:14 PM
In a BusinessWeek article on how Microsoft plans to steal the spotlight from Apple's iPod with new portable video players, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates throws a couple jabs at Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who earlier this year said that he doesn't think "people have a burning desire to watch video on tiny little screens."...

AMD unveils portable video player chip

AMD unveils portable video player chip 01/04/2005 06:44 AM
Integrated video engine to offer DVD quality on a handheld

Apple Portable Video/Media Device?

Apple Portable Video/Media Device? 03/06/2004 02:02 AM
This Sun-Times article discusses what technologies to expect to hit it big in 2004. The author speculates that Wide screen/HD TV, Portable Media ce...

Will consumers find portable video
palatable?

Will consumers find portable video
palatable? 07/20/2004 06:20 AM
The first portable digital video players are coming to a market that might not be ready.
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AMD chips in for portable video players