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Disney Mix Max PMP.

The company known for an overgrown mouse is set to release the Mix Max portable digital media player onto the world, and while it has no trouble playing full-length movies and TV shows, it only costs $99. Not too shabby for an excellent Christmas gift (yes, it’s that time of year again? already). You can take [...]

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Broadcom Announces Advanced New Development Platform for Portable Multimedia Devices.

Platform Runs on VideoCore(R) Applications Processor and Integrates Bluetooth(R), Wi-Fi(R), Power Management and FM Tuner Technologies for Portable Multimedia Device Development BARCELONA, Spain, 3GSM World Congress, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ — Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM - News), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced the availability of a new development platform for [...]

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Portable Media Center Isn’t Great But Does Record TV.

At its first family reunion, the Philips PMC7230 Portable Media Center will reconnect with a genealogical tree loaded with televisions, digital video recorders and digital music players - maybe even an iPod or two. The $350 PMC7230 has a little bit of each in its blood. It’s built like an oversize iPod, or maybe a junior [...]

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Seagate and STMicroelectronics Speed the Adoption of Hard Drives Into Mobile Devices.

ARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — 2007 3GSM SHOW — Seagate Technology(R) (NYSE: STX) today announced the availability of Seagate’s Storage Management Module(TM) (SMM(TM)) on the Nomadik(TM) family of multimedia application processors from STMicroelectronics, the leader in delivering high-performance, low-power multimedia solutions for next- generation mobile devices. This partnership increases flexibility allowing hard drives to [...]

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Toshiba Gigabeat V.

he Gigabeat V belongs to the growing family of media players - devices that are about more than just music. Anything this side of an electric toothbrush can play MP3 tracks but this compact black box also puts video (and photos) on the playlist to become a personal and highly portable cinema. On the Oscar-winning side [...]

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Up to 10.4in LCD panels, card readers in new models.

Alarm clock and calendar functions, built-in or external memory, wider format support and more interfaces are key features. Digital photo frames are mostly made of TFT-LCD panels in sizes of 5.6in, 7in, 8in, 8.4in and 10.4in. Models available have built-in flash memory or card slots for CF, SD, MMC and MS for expandable memory. JPEG format [...]

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TI-84 Calculator: Class Time Portable Media Player.

With a little magic, someone transformed a TI-84-Plus calculator into a portable media player. Once properly connected to a USB-based storage device, the TI-84’s monochrome screen displays whatever it’s hooked up to. Here, we see The Matrix being played back in full calculator resolution glory. Life changing? Debatable. Clever way to kill time during class? [...]

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G-Tech’s G-PLAY Portable Media Player.

G-Tech is getting ready to ship the G-PLAY Portable Media Player, a USB 2.0 hard drive competing directly with LaCie’s Silverscreen device. Like the Silverscreen, the G-PLAY can be hooked up straight to a TV for playing DivX movies and other media. Both devices seem pretty similiar, the only advantage being that the G-PLAY comes [...]

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Imaginarium Cam1 Kids Phone Doesn’t Completely Suck.

Unlike the previous Mo1 Imaginarium Mobile Phone for kids, the Cam1 phone is actually one your children would want to carry around. The Cam1 features a 2-megapixel camera, MP3 player, and GPRS triangulation—stuff that’s usually found in more expensive phones. Despite having lots of features, the phone’s still tailored for kids. The GPRS triangulation, for example, [...]

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Cheap PMP from Wal-Mart: “to be or not to be”?

The world’s largest retailer will enter new territories as it launches its greatly anticipated online movie download store. The online video store will make its long-awaited debut on Thursday. The initial “beta” version will sell digital versions of about 3,000 films and television episodes from all the major studios and some TV networks, including Fox Broadcasting. Wal-Mart [...]

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