Category: Personal video players
Sony pitching PSP's non-gaming features with GPS satnav and Sky TV downloads
We’ll have to start filing PSP stories under ‘personal media players’ rather than ‘gaming’ soon, such is Sony’s determination to expand its handheld’s non-gaming capabilities.
We wrote yesterday about its Go!Messenger VoIP project with BT, but Sony has also just unveiled plans for a satnav add-on, as well as on-demand TV downloads from Sky.
DigitalCube S-Station NetForce 2 – first media player with HSDPA connectivity
Ok, we can be pedantic and say that phones are essentially media players these days and have HSDPA connectivity, but the DigitalCube S-Station NetForce 2 is the first stadalone media player to feature it.
Emtec unveils 2GB MP4 C230 player
I would associate Emtec more with blank media than media players, but it’s the latter we’re concerned with here, more specifically, the MP4 C230 player.
Shenzhen Powtele's minimalist PMP-400 media player
Admittedly, this is unlikely to see the light of day on the UK market, but the PMP-400 from Shenzhen Powtele could make it onto the gadget retail sites – and is certainly worth a look.
Go Video offers Multimedia Boombox with old school styling
For some people, pocket-sized players will never match up, carrying round a big boombox is where it’s at – and that’s what you get with the Go Video Portable Multimedia Player.
Top 10 convergence-busting personal media players
We’ve come a long way since the days of digital audio jukeboxes. Nowadays, the term personal media players (or PMPs) seems to be the accepted shorthand for devices that can play music and video, display photos, and act as portable hard drives.
Except they can do a helluva lot more than that. The not-so-humble PMP is fast evolving into a true convergence device, stealing features from cameras, GPS satnav devices, gaming handhelds and personal TVs.
iRiver NV – GPS meets media player
Quite a few GPS units double up as basic media players, but none do it quite so well as the iRiver NV.
Aldi offers 2GB media player with DAB for under £70
Catering-sized bags of pasta, cardboard pizza and cheap olive oil are just a few things you would expect to find at your local Aldi. But for this week, you can add good value technology, as the budget supermarket is offering this Tevion 2GB media player with DAB radio for under £70.
Shiny Video Review: the best Personal Media Players available
Zara takes a look at a range of PMPs and gives her opinion on what’s out there…
Is Dell planning to make a Wi-Fi personal media player?
Dell has announced plans to acquire Zing, the technology company that makes the platform for SanDisk’s Sansa Connect wireless music player. The obvious conclusion is that Dell is planning its own Wi-Fi PMP.
