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We knew they were coming and now, they are here! Teasers are taken back now and Archos has taken wraps off its 5th generation portable media players. The company claims the new PMPs to offer easy access to content and personalization options to fit individual lifestyles.

The Archos Gen 5 includes the Archos 105 that features 1.8-inch OLED screen with 160 x 128-pixel resolution, Archos 405 with 3.5-inch screen and 2 GB of onboard flash memory with an SD slot, Archos 605 featuring 4.3-inch touchscreen with 800 x 480 pixels and memory capacity of up to 160GB, and finally, the Archos 705 that boasts a large 7-inch touchscreen with Wi-Fi net access to stream videos and pictures. The 405 can output to your television while the 705 plays more formats than any other in the 5th iteration.

Pricing for the Archos 605 starts at $170 while the pricing of the others in the line hasn’t been disclosed.

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An interesting media player by Becker Vision called Pro 7985 that touts to offer a touchscreen interface along with DVD playback.

This unique device in portable media player segment comes with 7″ 16:9 TFT display to play four hours of continuous DVD playback, static images, MPEG-1 to MPEG-4, DIV-X, XVID, AVI and SVCD video on its big screen.

Pro 7985 allows you to play back MP3 audio and videos by using SD card, Memory Stick or a USB thumb drive along with a DVD or CD and also facilitates to pick DVB TV and radio stations via its built in tuner. It also sports some built in speakers and a headphone jack for your listening enjoyment and offers A/V jacks to watch and listen from other output devices such as camcorders.

The player will hit the shelves in the coming weeks for $750.

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We have already come across so many editions of Samsung’s good T9 music player but the new Yepp T9+ version goes one step ahead from all others. The music nerds will still find that 1.8-inch 220 x 176 resolution display, up to 8GB of store capacity, MP3/WMA audio support, and not-so-changed design. The extra feature added this time is the option of multi-player gaming via built-in Bluetooth. Five games will be included in the T9+ version. Well, Koreans already have the T9+ on the shelves but it might take some time for it to make its way to the States.

Via: Electronista

Philips has unraveled their SA9300 and SA5100 portable music players (PMPs). These two variants are made public in 2GB or 4GB capacities respectively. The Philips SA9300 incorporates a 1.8-inch LCD display, integrated FM Tuner, wide range of supports/softwares for MP3, WMA music formats, is compatible with WMV9 video format. It helps you view JPEG image files too.
The other variant, Philips SA5100, features a 1.8-inch LCD display, and it is available in 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB capacity. Just like the SA9300, this SA5100 supports MP3, WMA music formats, WMV9 video format. They are quite a good looker too!

Via: Itechnews

Another contestant to strike the market called MSI MS-5552 Bluetooth MP3 player. This latest smart device offers gigantic 50 hours of continuous playback time on just single AAA battery and offers other Bluetooth Class II specifications to propose flexible listening capabilities and liberty with its silky, compact design.

This MSI MS-5552 is encased in high-quality aluminum alloy body to make you feel smart. It also has classy touch panels and easy-to-use controls those are especially designed with excellent craftsmanship to make it comfy in users hands.

Thanks, to its Bluetooth feature, because now, you don’t have to get into all those messy cables to transfer data. But no info about price and availability.

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I never imagined that one day I will get an MP3 player for which I only have to shell $29.99 for 1GB memory or you can also go for another version that is only for $19 with 512 MB memory. Yes, this is not a joke that I cracked, but Audiovox has just unveiled their new products to defeat other available products already ruling our shelves with costly price tags.

This MP6610f comes with FM radio with 20 presets, a bright OLED display, an equalizer, WMA support and with many other common features.

The battery life is only for few hours but to get MP3 player for such a low price, I think is not bad.

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To contest other available products with some amendments that you might plan to buy, Blue Raven’s has introduced its new device in the market called MediaMate.

This new portable media device comes with two different storage capacities to store plenty of video, that is 7040, 40GB for $380 and 7080 80GB for $430.

It weighs only 1.5 pounds and measures 8 x 4.6 x 1-inches, it plays OGG, MP3, WMA files, VOB video playback and also supports AVI and MPG containers with MPEG-4 ASP and MPEG 2 efficiently if you don’t want to transcode your H.264, DivX, XviD, etc.

The device also offers replaceable battery, 7-inch 480 x 234 display and stick with an Archos if you are looking ahead to record TV to your player but frankly quoting that the device does not seems quite impressive to me even if I have to shell $100 to get it.

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We would not be wrong at all to comment that we now live in the era that boasts of quite a few state of the art “digital music and video players”. Supporting the good old Linux operating system, this portable media player (PMP) gets a heavy name too -TurboLinux Wizpy.

It incorporates the PC-bootable version of the Linux operating system that transforms your PMP interface for that up to date PC experience. In order to boot Linux into this PMP you have to simply connect it to your PC’s USB port. It’ revolutionary multimedia software helps you playback Ogg, MP3, WMA, XviD, MPEG 4, and JPEG file formats.

It can record as well as make you listen to your favorite radio station channels, isn’t this amazing? It will come in two variants -2 GB and 4 GB. It will be out at the world front this month. So, are you all set to grab one for yourself?

Via: Ubergizmo

A recent suit filed by a group of interactive television patent holders alleged that Microsoft is cheating them in giving away a royalty-free license on the reasons that the company was not looking forward to make public its own DVR system. Just weeks after talks came to pass between the group of patent owners- being run under the banner of Intellivision, not linked to the 90s game console and Microsoft, the corporation started on and set off advertising for its Ultimate TV DVR product.

The talks according to the grapevine came to pass in 2001, hence it seems to be a little odd that the designers awaited till January of 2007 with a view to filing their claim to nullify the original licensing deal plus get unstipulated dents, of course. Microsoft hasn’t up till now acted in response to the case but to file a merely procedural motion, hence we are going to have to await to make out how this one play out.

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It is very pleasant to hear that Apple is also starting to sell DRM-free music but in fact Apple’s new DRM-free music still have a users full name and account embedded in them.

It is still controversial that what kind of DRM-free music Apple is offering because it is reportedly said that Apple still embeds your account information as well as your e-mail information in all songs sold on the store that also includes DRM-free music.

Earlier, no one could imagine sharing the DRM music. Now, consumers have got the right to share their tunes according to their will and that data can be tracked from person or
persons who bought it and moreover it can also be misused by some miscreants over the internet.

But now, the question arises what Apple will do with all this information? Though, there are various methods to determine who is sharing music but by tracking buyer’s info will put copyright holder in black list.

It would be quite difficult for iTunes to track every song for the embedded data into it and on finding any user with a song from a different user it can alert Apple. But would this really solve the purpose, if not then what does Apple want to do with all this information in its database. Even if iTunes performs up to the expectations of Apple and alerts it about the song used by someone other than the user, then also Apple can do nothing because the media industry is already quite obsessed with the idea of media sharing among users. Moreover there are various torrents and P2P connections from where data can be accessed without paying for it.

May be Apple has something in store to cater to that too.

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Via: Arstechnica

Another entrant in portable media player segment from BLU:Sens called P27. Like other devices this smart device also sports videos in AVI, MPEG formats, MP3 music files and can display JPEG images.

It comes packed in a frame that measures 2.56″ wide, 1.97″ tall and 0.39″ thick with a 2.4 inch, 260,000 color display.
The sleek frame also comes equipped with a built-in speaker, a voice-recording microphone and a microSD card slot to expand the internal 1GB of storage. It also offers FM radio that you can also record.

The P27 is available in Spain and to get it one has to shell about $121 or 90 Euros.

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Recently Engadget said that Sony Ericsson is planning to patent a device all too like the i7 PMP, which was thrown by Samsung in January 2007. So, all this does not seem to be good news for Samsung. The engadget.com further maintained that the SE app that was filed on November 14th, 2006 dubiously known as Mobile information terminal apparatus and technique of controlling the same gives the impression of consisting the combination of gaming and mobile phone as its focal point even now expands to cover up multimedia too.

Through the source, it is also come to know that Sony Ericsson is looking forward to patent the rotary back-up mechanism: turn the display by 90% increments to by design switch between game, camera, TV or video, and phone modes. Obviously, the i7 PMP just makes available 3 modes hinging on the angle of rotation: camera, PMP, and MP3 player. Even now, it is thought that Samsung’s patent app is only as dubiously worded. Let’s wait how the latest and obviously greatest USPTO dominates something, which gives the impression of being an evident upgrading to current technology.

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If you want to enjoy video, photos and music on the move, here is the latest SA6025/37 portable music player from Philips. This high-tech portable video companion features a high quality 2.2′ color display and up to 4 hours of video playtime.

The latest Philips SA6025/37, which is measured not more than 93.5 x 53.2 H x 12.5 mm and weighed just 75g, features a 2.2-iunch QVGA 65k color LCD display, support for MP3 & WMA music and WMV9 video along with voice recording. It is also consisted with 2GB internal memory, integrated FM Tuner and the LI-Polymer battery that facilitates up to 15 hours of playing time.

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If you are jaded by listening same music again and again, Green House Corporation has rolled a sleek 1GB digital audio player called KanaGT USB2.0 player with built in FM transmitter.

This digital audio player plays MP3/WMA files and your local FM stations via your car stereo and also enables users to transfer their favorite music albums conveniently from their PC.

To enable users to use it in night, thanks to its Organic EL display that gives superior clarity. It can also prove beneficial for journalists due to its voice recording feature.

This 1GB DAP player comes equipped with built in lithium ion battery, it measures 83.0×12.0×29.0 mm, weighs 36g and once fully charged the battery lasts for approximately 7 hours and 4 hours when used as FM transmitter. Users can also listen to music via ear phones which also acts as antenna.

The device will hit the Japanese market from June 6th in three different colors, but no info about pricing.

Via: Fareastgizmos

PayPlay is proud to commence its world’s largest MP3 download store that will sell more than 1.3 million indie music tracks with a search engine that will not only help consumers to search their favorite artists but it will also help to get similar indie artists in the log.

Previously, PayPlay was only selling DRM-crippled WMAs for $0.77 whereas MP3s was selling for $0.88 but now the service pronounce that it will reflect the cost of retooling to host MP3s instead of WMAs.

It will also offer a marvelous artist split feature with artists those who take home an average of $0.59 per track, (artists signed to labels average about seven percent of the price of an iTunes Store download) which means that now your every purchases at the store will be pretty good.

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