What’s With The PINK MP4 Players?!?

First, it was Microsoft with their limited edition pink Zune Player. Next, it’s the Soundwave 2GB pink MP4 Player.

This MP4 Player has lots of great features including an FM Radio and a Voice Recorder. Here’s the full spec:

• 2 Gb Flash Memory
• 4.6 cm TFT LCD Full Colour Display
• FM Radio Tuner
• Digital Picture Viewer
• Voice Recorder
• Rechargeable Battery via USB
• Plays formats: MP3/WMA/DRM10 Supported
• Plays Movies: WMV/AVi
• High Speed USB 2.0 Connection
• Manufacturers 1 Year Warranty

Although the 2GB Memory is pretty meagre (it’ll only hold around 4 movies), it’s price is fantastic. At around £55 ($100) it’s a steal.

Purchase link: Duck.co.uk

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Written by David on November 29th, 2006 with 1 comment.
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Would You Be Happy If Your White Zune Player Turned PINK?!?

Would You Be Happy If Your White Zune Player Turned PINK?!?

100 bewildered Zune Player owners are going to get the shock of their lives this Christmas. They’ll unwrap their brand new Zune Player, expecting to see a new, gleaming white MP4 player. Unfortunately though their excitement will turn to angst rather quickly – their beautiful new Zune player will be shocking PINK!

Microsoft have pulled off an impressive publicity this Christmas by ‘hiding’ 100 numbered pink Zune players in packaging that doesn’t make their contents obvious.

This story is racing round the net. But why PINK Microsoft???!!!

For those wanting one there are two pink Zune players on offer on eBay:
http://search.ebay.com/pink-zune

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Written by David on November 28th, 2006 with no comments.
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New 5th Generation iPod Stores 100 Hours Of Movies

The new 5^th generation iPod has arrived, and with it comes 80GB of hard drive – enough to store over 100 hours worth of movies.

This could be the iPod that converts the remaining few. Some people must have been waiting until it could store everything – from music to images and movies. Now it can. So what are the main improvements?

· Up to 20 hours(1) of battery life

· 80GB storage

· Improved video playback time, iPod keeps you entertained for up to 6.5 hours

· You can even view photo slideshows complete with music on iPod or on a TV via the optional iPod AV Cable

· A brand-new, built-in search function lets you use the Click Wheel to type out the name of the song, artist, album, audiobook, or podcast you’re looking for, and your iPod returns results instantly as you select letters

The iPod had to choose a new direction to continue to outpace the evolvement of mobile phone technology. With Sony Ericcson bringing out a phone (the W950i) with a 4GB hard drive – capable of holding up to 4000 songs – the portable media player marketplace is hotting up.

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Written by David on November 27th, 2006 with 1 comment.
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The 10 Things Wrong With The Zune Player

The Zune Player has a lot going for it. Namely Microsoft. However, most reviews in aren’t good. So what’s wrong with it?

The following 10 Things Wrong With The Zune Player is taken from Zune: So You Want To Be An iPod Killer.

1) Hardware issues. It’s is a little too bulky and heavy

2) It’s fake click wheel is really just a cheap plastic rocker switch

3) Wi-Fi is nice, but you can’t connect to anything but another Zune

4) It only works with Windows XP

5) It is incompatible with common media formats such as DivX

6) It plays movies, but you can’t buy them from the Zune Marketplace

7) It isn’t ready for podcasting

8) The software installation process needs a lot of work

9) Some features are too hard to find and not well designed

10) It stops playing current music during Wi-Fi, peer-to-peer music transfer

Can anyone add to the list?!?

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Written by David on November 24th, 2006 with 3 comments.
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The Intext 401 MP4 Player - A Review

Intex Aura 401 MP4 player 1 GB is a mini pocket gadget for students, youngsters, and professionals who want to carry their music, videos, and pictures along while on-the-move.

As an all-in-one entertainment package, the features include AMV Video File Format, 1.8-inch screen, 250K color TFT, built-in FM tuner with 20 channel presets, voice recorder, and a USB drive. This MP4 player enables viewing videos while on the move.

It’s a very interesting new addition to the range of MP4 players available because it also includes a built in FM radio, voice recorder and USB drive at a budget price. I get the feeling that someone’s done their market research very well.

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Written by David on November 23rd, 2006 with 1 comment.
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An MP4 Player WATCH! What next!?

Thanko are bringing an MP4 Player Watch to market. What next! The MP4 Player watch may catch on though - how many people do you know that still wear watches even though? Many people do.

The chances are though that it’ll still be a children’s product. An extremely portable MP4 Player without a phone could fill a gap in the market. But maybe not. We’ll see.

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Written by David on November 22nd, 2006 with no comments.
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The Life Of A Lonely Zune Player Owner

Zune Player owner Jason Chen brought a smile to my face this morning when he talked about the life of a lonely Zune player owner.

He’s been using the roming Zune function that lets you search for other Zune Player owners and then swap tracks with each other. One problem. He couldn’t find one other Zune owner!

Better luck in the future, Jason!

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Written by David on November 22nd, 2006 with no comments.
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The Mustek PVR-H140 MP4 Player

The Mustek PVR-H140 MP4 Player claims to let you ‘Make your own entertainment everywhere you go. But what does it actually offer?

• Up to VGA 30 fps AV recording (MPEG 4 compatible file format) through AV In with timer record feature
• 3.6″ Color TFT LCD; Adjustable LCD brightness
• Up to 40GB HDD storage capacity allows users to back up files from memory cards
• Multi-language user interface
• Stand design allows users to enjoy the multimedia comfortably
• TV playback through AV Out
• High speed USB 2.0 supported

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Written by David on November 21st, 2006 with no comments.
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Read this before your buy a ZUNE Player

There’s a great article on O’Reilly Media about the Five Zune Secrets you need to know. Make sure that you read it if you’re thinking of buying a ZUNE Player.

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Written by David on November 17th, 2006 with no comments.
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What are MP4 Files - and What Do They Do?

MP4 is short for ‘MPEG-4’. The official file extension for MPEG-4 is .mp4 – hence the shortened name MP4.

MPEG-4 technology has been developed to provide DVD quality audio and pictures in an extremely small file size – ideal for playing on portable MP4 players such as the iPod Video.

MP4 is here to stay. The Apple Corporation themselves describes MP4 as “the global multimedia standard, delivering professional-quality audio and video streams over a wide range of bandwidths, from cell phone to broadband and beyond”. Thy go on to say that “hundreds of researchers around the world contributed to MPEG-4, which was finalized in 1998 and became an international standard in 2000”.

The BBC confirms that MPEG-4 is used to compress video and is the successor to MPEG-2. They also explain that the version that can turn massive movie files into a handier size has escaped on to the Internet thanks to Microsoft. Microsoft developed the software to compress and decompress video, which is called a called a codec. (A codec is a device or program capable of performing encoding and decoding on a digital data stream or signal. The word codec means Compression/Decompression algorithm)

The codec helps the Windows Media Player program handle moving pictures sent over the web. Other web based media players such as the Real Player will also play the MP4 file format as long as you have the latest version downloaded. You have to download the latest MP4 Codec to your own digital media player to ensure MP4 file playback compatibility.

However, an MP4 file doesn’t only refer to video content – an MP4 file can also be an audio file. Many people think that the MP4 format will be both the visual and audio standard file format of the future.

The iPod Video is by far the most popular MP4 Player on the market. But iPod don’t want us to call it an MP4 Player even though it plays MP4 file. Why? It might be because you might then choose another MP4 Player instead!

Another high-profile recent MP4 Player launch is the Zune Player by Microsoft. Surprisingly though, ZDnet.com discovered that at the time of the launch, Zune devices only play protected files from the Zune marketplace.

This is where Microsoft and Apple are both arguably guilty. Both companies are dubiously controlling certain markets. However, this can give the advantage to the MP4 Player consumer. If you take the time to convert your video files to MP4 (for which there is free software available) then you can play them on your cheaper MP4 Player, which probably has more functions than the Video iPod. Even if you choose to move to the Video iPod in the future, you can still transfer your old MP4 files.

The MP4 file format will be integral to the future of web based videos and portable media player videos. It is a global multimedia standard, every increasing in popularity. It is the file format that best insures the mass acceptance of your own media files on various types of media players.

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Written by David on November 16th, 2006 with no comments.
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