Filed under ‘Portable media players’
MSI Megaview 588
MSI have been making portable media players for a few years now, and while I’ve always been a big fan of MSI’s PC components, I’ve never really given their multimedia players much notice - but now they’ve released something pretty flashy. The MSI Megaview 588 is a portable multimedia player and storage device, with 20GB of storage and a 3.5 inch LCD screen - it can handle most popular movie formats including MPEG-4, DivX and WMV, and of course plays MP3s and WMA audio files.
MSI Digi Player 600
MSI have released yet another iPod styled mp3 player - but unlike a lot of others, this one’s actually pretty good. The MSI Digi Player 600 features 1GB memory, supports MP3 and WMA files, has an FM tuner, microphone - and most importantly, a full colour OLED screen capable of playing movies.
Creative Zen Vision
Creative are really starting to come up with some nice looking media players - the Zen Vision has a 3.7 inch LCD screen, magnesium case, 30GB of storage, built in FM radio, MP3 playback, and support for DivX XviD, WMV, and MPEG 4 video. One of the best things about the Zen Vision is the CompactFlash slot - which enables you to store your digital photos on the Zen Vision when your camera’s CF card get’s full.
iriver PMC-120
The iriver PMC-120 plays your movies, music, television shows, photos and more. It features the ultra-intuitive Microsoft Media Center interface and connects seamlessly to Windows Media Player. Plus, it comes complete with a widescreen color display, integrated speaker, 20GB of internal storage and a removable rechargeable battery.
Samsung YPT8Z digital media player
Samsung have released a new 1GB digital media player with an 1.8″ TFT color LCD display, and a battery capable of 20 hours of audio playback, or 6 hours of video playback. The Samsung YPT8Z supports music, videos, photo albums, e-books, games - and can be used an mass storage device and FM tuner/recorder. The Samsung YPT8Z can read MPEG, MP3, WMA, WMA-DRM, JPEG, Ogg, ASF, and text files. It looks pretty slick too.
» Available from Abt Electronics
PQI mPack P600 media player
The mPack P600 is one of the new clamshell media players from PQI, and has one of the most elegant and sophisticated designs we’ve seen in a long time. PQI have pretty much nailed the design on this one. The P600 features a brilliant 4 inch widescreen TFT LCD for watching your movies on, or displaying your photos - and can play a huge range of file formats (see below), so watching your favourite movies or listening to your music collection usually only requires a simple ‘drag and drop’ to get your movies, music, or photos onto the P600.
Coby portable DVD player
The Coby portable DVD player features a 8.5 inch 16:9 widescreen TFT display that can be rotated 180 degrees, and can play DVD, CD, CD-R, CD-RW, MP3 & JPEG discs.
- Full function remote
- DC car adapter & AV cable
- Composite video output
- Optical audio output
- Built-in stereo speakers
- Headrest mounting bag
- 2 sets of stereo headphones
- 2 headphone jacks
» Available from the Discovery Channel Store
