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  • #1

    New iRiver media playing device

    This thing looks badass:
    http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/5019.html


    ...all in a package measuring a relatively modest 13.9 x 8.4 x 3.1 cm, and weighing 277 g.

    The number of supported formats is extensive, ranging from MP3 through WMA, ASF, Ogg Vorbis, JPEG, BMP, AVI, MP4, DivX 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, XviD, MPEG4 SP, Advanced SP and, finally, MPEG1.
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    Very cool. Getting a jump on the market before the Sony PSP and Microsoft WMP portables hit. Wonder what the price tag will be?

    Jammrock
    “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
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    • #3
      Considering the prices of other such devices from e.g. Archos I think I'll have to say it will be well outside my orice range

      Too bad. This would be the perfect thing to keep me entertained on long flights.
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      • #4
        No mpeg2??

        That sucks
        If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

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        • #5
          Yeah, MPEG2 would be nice, but remember that MPEG2 is designed for high-quality high-bitrate use, so it was probably considered to take too much space (think of putting FLAC files in a flash MP3-type player). For a device like this with a little screen, you'd be better off re-encoding your MPEG2 material to XViD or whatever.
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          • #6
            since it's linux based, you know people will hack it and add support for others codecs and apps.

            ps - http://www.iriveramerica.com/contest/
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