Portable media player maker Epoq is going full force to supply the American masses with ATSC-compatible portable TVs or DTVs. DTV broadcasts will be 480 x 720 pixels and 1080i DTV while Epoq’s 7-inch unit will display a 480 x 230-pixel resolution and the 11-inch one will have a 480 x 800-pixel resolution. The one [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 2, 2008
Apple, Inc isn’t bowing to the pressure of FM tuner advocates but a proposed module that, aside from FM, would include support for satellite radio, TV, HDTV, IP TV, cable TV, etc. We have no idea about the form factor of such a module or if it you’ll want it on your iPod at all [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 9, 2008
They’re calling this a breakthrough device, a PMP with WiFi and supports mobile TV. But that’s not the breakthrough yet for this HD (up to 160GB) MP5 Player (a PMP in China that supports RealMedia). The MV5920, due to its dual-core technology no doubt, also supports video playback at HD 720p (1280 x 720 pixels), [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 6, 2007
We’ve earlier featured the PMC-V800 PMP from Tsinghua Tongfang, which plays FLV and SWF videos, besides playing several (MP3, WMA and WAV) music files and NES and GBC games. One thing we haven’t told you is the built-in karaoke machine, which you whip out in Karaoke bars and most likely syn with their mic and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Korea’s Savit Micro did us all a favo packing in all the HD video possible inside a PMP-size device. The Cinedisk CD26HD plays back videos at 1080i playback with file support for MPEG 2, WMV9HD and DiVX as well as MP3, WMA and OGG. The AC3 and DTS will give you surround sound with [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Chinese PMPs are stretching their horizons in video playing. You can stop calling these devices MP4 players. Chinese PMPs have supported RealMedia when few portable players in the West bothered with the format. Chinese PMPs have also begun supporting HDTV, cranking up widescreen PMPs to suit the demands of a more sophisticated consumer base. The [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 19, 2007
We haven’t heard from Aigo lately. Their new multimedia DAB device will more than make up for the long silence. With only 256MB in onboard memory, you will not be using the DT5200 to view MP4 videos. But if you’re in Beijing, you can view CCTV news and sports channels, BTV-1 Beijing TV [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Chinese PMP-manufacturer ZARVA seems to be heading downward numerically with its newly launched MV209. We’ve written in the past about the MV300, which is a PMP with a DV (digital video) camera. While the MV300 boasts a 3.5-inch touchscreen, the new MV209 is a 2.8-incher with the touchscreen exchanged for a four tactile buttons. It’s [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 8, 2007
Samsung has solved the compatibility problems of the worldwide mobile TV industry by developing a chip (S3C4F31) that supports all the major mobile TV technologies - DVB-H/T, DAB-IP, ISDB-T (also 1-SEG, a Japanese digital standard for HDTV), and T-DMB, which widely used in Asia. This chip is a generation better than Sharp’s newly [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 3, 2007
No, this isn’t an announcement from Chinese PMP-maker ZARVA and we don’t know if the MV300 is ever going to be available outside China. We were pretty impressed about the ZARVA MV300 when we covered it over a month ago, without knowing the very cheap price such a quality device goes for in its native [...]
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
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