Toshiba Portable DVD Player Gets Major Price Slash at Amazon

The Toshiba SD-P93DTW is one high-end portable DVD player, and if you want one of these to lug around, you’ll have to shell out $520 in Japan. It has a 9-inch QVGA screen, compatibility with DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, CD-RW and support for DivX, MP# and JPEG. Toshiba even added a One-Seg TV tuner. Of course, [...]

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Sony XDV-D500 Bravia and XDV-D200

Now that the writers’ strike is almost over, you might want to take a look at what Sony’s got in the standalone portable TV department. In short, Bravia TV has become pocketable. Bravia promises the “Best Resolution Audio Visual Integrated Architecture” and we hope the WQVGA ont eh D500’s 3-inch screen is exactly that. This [...]

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Amazing InfoBar2 Amazingly Gets Release Date

Announced in November of last year, the futuristic InfoBar2 phone designed by KDDI Design Studio has become official. It’s a miracle of patient development for the manufacturer, and on quick inspection they have not changed the concept at all. Besides the retro-futuristic design, the most remarkable feature is the tile-like light magnesium alloy casing. It [...]

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Sanyo Gorillas Offer One-Seg Recording

Sanyo just made a small but significant step towards road safety by adding a recording function on their NV-SD580DT and NV-SB260DT GPS/1SEG devices. Both players boast a 5.8-inch VGA screen,an FM tuner, VISC (visual information system center) and an MP3 player. These Gorillas are not full PMPs like many personal navigation devices (PND), but they [...]

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Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core on Sony PSP

Japan - Apart from launching its PSP TV (1-SEG) in Japan, Sony has announced an exciting new game on their PlayStation Portable. The title you ask? Why, it’s just this little known role-playing game called “Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core.” Sony has been excitedly showing off it’s one-SEG-enabled PSP and PSP’s other TV-related function, “PSP [...]

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PMP Today Weekly Roundup

Beginning this week, we’ll be summarizing the top portable media player news for the entire seven days. We’ll also be adding a short commentary in case you don’t want to bother clicking all the links below. This week’s PMP news has been dominated by Apple’s iPhone and Microsoft’s Zune. Zune has officially reached the one million [...]

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PSP Lite and Slim Gets a TV Tuner

The new kid in the portable TV block is none other than Sony’s Playstation Portable. PSP-S310 will be available as an add-on when the new PSP Slim hits the market on September 20. The TV tuner for PSP will retail for $58 and works only for Japan’s 1-Seg (One-Seg) The PSP-S310 connects via USB and [...]

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