Category: Media Devices

  • Virus stops shipment of Creative Zen Neeon

    Creative has announced that a certain batch of Zen Neeon of 5GB HDD has the “W32.Wullik.B@mm” virus. The W32.Wullik.B@mm infects Windows based PC’s and sends emails to the addresses registered in Outlook. About 1 % of the total Zen Neeon’s shipped to Japan in July are beleived to be infected around 100 units. Shipping of…

  • Cowon A2 PMP

    Cowon A2 PMP has a 16 million color, 4 inches wide TFT with a 16:9 image ratio. It has a 4300 mAh Lithium Polymer battery for 14 hours of continuous playing time on a 5 hour charge. It can play DivX, XviD, MPEG4, WMV9, MP3, OGG, WMA and WAV files. It can display JPEG, Gif…

  • Dvico, dvix player capable of playing & recording HD broadcasting

    The Dvico ‘TViX’ is the very first dvix player capable of playing & recording HD broadcasting, so you can record HD broadcasting easily while watching TV. You don’t need to put extra HDTV card on a pc. It has a EM8621 processor, which makes possible to play WMV9 as well as Divx and MPEG. By…

  • JVC HP-DX1000 – Wooden headphones

    With the trend towards exotic metals and composites in our consumer electronics products, JVC made an interesting move this week when it released its new HP-DX1000 wooden headphones onto the Japanese market. Priced at JPY 105,000 yen (US$1000 to you), the headphones reportedly produce exquisite rich sound thanks to their natural wooden housings and a…

  • Archos AV700 18cm Personal Video Recorder

    The Archos AV700 features a 18cm (7 inch) wide screen and the 100 Gigabyte drive capable of storing 400 hours of video and/or your entire MP3 collection. The AV700 records directly from any device with standard video output (including TVs, VCRs, DVD players, set-top boxes and cable TV boxes), without the need for a computer…

  • Sharp Dual-View LCD Screen

    Electronics maker Sharp on Thursday unveiled a new LCD screen that will allow it to display two different images depending on the angle it is viewed from. Production of the screen begins this month, and the new LCD could be used in applications such as automobiles where such a feature would be useful. To make…

  • Korean viliv P1 – The video Ipod

    With looks similar to the Apple Ipod. The viliv P1 is quite interesting. It is supposed to feature an all Macromedia Flash UI (see photo below) and a 20GB hard-drive. Another Apple iPod similarity is the click wheel. The portable media player measures 161.0mm X 74.0mm X 18.0mm and weighs 250g. The screen is 4″…

  • Creative readies the Zen Vision

    The specs remain unchanged for the moment – USB2.0 connection, 3.7” TFT Screen with an SVGA (640 x 480) resolution in 256K colours, FM tuner and recorder, 30Gb Hard Disk and 4 hours’ movie playback and 8 hours for music from one charge of the battery, rising to over 12 hours if the rip rate…

  • Hitachi announces 11 new TV’s

    Hitachi has announced 11 new LCD and Plasma HDMI TV’s for mid-August. The LCD’s range from 26 to 37″ and the Plasma screens will have sizes between 37 and 55″. Prices will vary between 2250 and 6750 EUR. the main novelty for these screens is the ALIS technology (Mega-pixel ALIS panel = ultra-high-density and high…

  • Maxfield Movie 1GB Video Player

    German Maxfield offers the Max-Movie 1GB Flash video player. The Maxfield Movie supports MP3, WMA, OGG, JPG, AVI and MP4 media formats. The OLED screen has 260,000 colors. Features of the Maxfield movie include FM-Tuner, USB 2.0, SRS, WOW, photo viewer, alarm, timer based recording, sleep function and 15 hour battery life. The video player…