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ASUS O!Play HD2 USB 3.0 mediaplayer gets video demo

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Mar 16th 2010 No Comments

Didn't get enough of ASUS' O!Play HD2 mediaplayer, complete with its segment-leading USB 3.0 connectivity? ARM-loving Charbax has offered up a demo video of the O!Play HD2 in action from CeBIT 2010, and while the UI may not be the most inspiring we've ever seen, you can't really knock the ports ASUS have squeezed in. Video demo after the cut

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Cowon J3 AMOLED PMP spotted; launches this month

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Mar 16th 2010 No Comments

cowon j3 pmp Having been spotted in little more than sketch form back in January, we now have some firmer information on Cowon’s upcoming J3 media player. Set to launch this month, apparently, the Cowon J3 has a 3.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen running at 480 x 272, complete with up to 16GB of storage and Bluetooth connectivity.

Three versions of the J3 will be available initially, with the PMP coming in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB SKUs. All will have an accelerometer for automatic screen-orientation flips, a TV output for displaying content on a bigger screen, and Cowon’s own JetEffects effects 3.0 technology for improving audio performance.

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Archos 1 Vision PMP reviewed: cheap but definitely not cheerful

By Chris Davies on Monday, Mar 15th 2010 1 Comment

While fanboi debates rage just as strongly as they ever did, in general gadgets across the board are better designed, better constructed and better performing than we could've hoped for five or so years ago. That's why it's so nice to find a real humdinger of a review for Archos' 1 Vision PMP, an MP3 player that anythingbutipod describe as having "bad build quality, awkward design, peculiar button placements, an undeniably unnecessary power switch, somewhat peculiar menus and an extra features set that might as well not have been there."

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Archos Vision Series PMPs: 1.4 to 4.3-inches

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Mar 3rd 2010 No Comments

Not, perhaps, as interesting as the company’s new Home Tablets, but Archos also have a line of new and updated PMPs to show at CeBIT 2010. The Archos Vision Series ranges from the tiny 24g Vision A14VG, with a video-capable 1.4-inch LCD display, FM radio and 4GB of storage, to the 4.3-inch touchscreen Vision A43VB, with 8GB of storage, a microSD card slot, 30hr battery and a video-output for playing content on a bigger display.

ARCHOS Vision A43VB

Video demos after the cut

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ASUS EeeMedia EM0501 HD-capable media center outed

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Mar 2nd 2010 No Comments

The O!Play HD2 isn’t the only media-centric device that ASUS have quietly snuck into their CeBIT 2010 line-up; there’s another, somewhat more interesting set-top box on show too. The ASUS EeeMedia EM0501 is supposedly a “High Definition Media Center”, based around an 800MHz Samsung S5PV210 ARM chipset with 512MB of RAM and a 2.5-inch HDD bay. It can hook up to your network for streaming content, and output 1080p Full HD.

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ASUS O!Play HD2 quietly arrives at CeBIT 2010

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Mar 2nd 2010 No Comments

ASUS have quietly added a third model to their O!Play mediaplayer range, the ASUS O!Play HD2. With no information beyond a name in the CeBIT 2010 press release they’ve sent us, however, and nothing on the company site, we’re left guessing to its complete specifications, though the single photo does reveal USB, eSATA and various forms of memory card reader.

Update: The O!Play HD2 is confirmed to have not only USB 2.0 but USB 3.0 connectivity.

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TerraTec NOXON M520 HD media-player arrives

By Chris Davies on Monday, Mar 1st 2010 No Comments

TerraTec have announced their latest media player, the NOXON M520, an HD-capable box with networking support and HDMI connectivity. Fresh to CeBIT 2010 this week, the NOXON M520 has DTS and Dolby Digital surround sound support, together with AVI and XviD compatibility, together with two USB 2.0 ports for adding in external drives.

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Archos A70HB Family Digital Assistant tipped for CeBIT 2010

By Chris Davies on Monday, Mar 1st 2010 No Comments

Archos have already been pretty upfront about their plans to bring larger versions of their Android-based internet tablet to CeBIT 2010 this week, and according to the show guide they’ll slot into the company’s new Archos Home Slate category. As tipped before, the tablets will prioritize family activities, such as group email and calendar access, together with the usual tablet fare such as internet access and multimedia.

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Boxee Beta lands on Apple TV

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Feb 25th 2010 No Comments

Its creators may not quite know what to do with the Apple TV, but over at Boxee there’s no such confusion. The media center software has long been a popular hack for the Apple set-top box, but after the company launched their new beta recently the Apple TV was pretty much left out in the cold; now, though, there’s a new way to install it that’s even more straightforward than before.

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Eminent EM7075-DTS network mediaplayer launches

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Feb 9th 2010 No Comments

Eminent have launched their latest HD-capable media player, and as the name suggests the Eminent EM7075-DTS supports direct playback of Dolby DTS audio without a separate decoder. The EM-7075-DTS can handle either local content – via a USB 2.0 port – or streamed network content – via a 10/100 ethernet port – in up to 1080p High Definition.

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