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Apple may slash the price on its iPod touch devices with the introduction of a new 8GB version of the player following the launch of the iPhone 5 / iPhone 4S next week, sources inform.People who are reportedly privy of Apple’s plans with the iOS platforms are telling 9to5mac that the iPod touch in all its three... |
30 September 2011
04:30 GMT |
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HTC may be best known for its many phones, but its stake in the media player market is also considerable, possibly set to grow some more if a certain report is anything to go by.Over the past couple of years, many consumer products were created by this or that company in collaboration with beats by Dr. Dre.In HTC�... |
19 September 2011
11:09 GMT |
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Pioneer is showing its own assets on the multimedia front, although its own new products are going to show their worth in the US instead of Europe, where ASUS released its own, newest device.Though the PC market seems to be getting the most attention when it comes to consumer technology, consumer electronics aren�... |
9 September 2011
11:00 GMT |
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ASUS is showing its hand on more than one market segment, as a certain consumer electronic, not just laptops, are making their way to stores, or at least are expected to do so at some point during this month.
ASUS is most definitely not sitting by and letting the first half of September go by without substantial ... |
9 September 2011
10:31 GMT |
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The segment of media players and other multimedia devices is one that grew substantially over the past few years, economic recession or no, and Sony just made its most recent move in this field.
The 2011 IFA trade show already got us much to talk and write about, as obvious from how we set up a special section fo... |
6 September 2011
03:09 GMT |
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Sony really is bringing out all the guns, big or small, at the IFA 2011 trade show, as it looks like it even presented a network media player known as SMP-200, one that already has a product page.
The thing about international trade shows is that they always get IT companies from all over the world convening in t... |
5 September 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Creative is one of the most prominent companies on the IT audio segment, but it sometimes makes devices that aren't so likely to score sales, despite being in no way lacking in capabilities.Creative already made sure that the opening of September did not pass it by without at least some users looking in its dir... |
2 September 2011
05:28 GMT |
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SanDisk is known for its many storage solutions, but it seems to be gathering more and more attention in a different field, that of consumer electronics focused on multimedia.The past few years have seen technology taking a turn for the high, even though the economy has not been all that favorable.As such, more or l... |
25 August 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Two security vulnerabilities which can be exploited to execute arbitrary code have been identified in different components of the popular VLC media player application.Vulnerability research vendor Secunia rates the two VLC security flaws discovered by security researcher Hossein Lotfi as highly critical.One of the vu... |
14 July 2011
08:36 GMT |
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It's been quite a while since we last saw iRiver introduce a new device on the market, but the company's Russian website has just recently published the first pictures and specification of the yet-unreleased P8 portable media player.
Since we are talking about an iRiver P-series PMP, the P8 is built arou... |
5 July 2011
04:40 GMT |
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There may be a whole bunch of multimedia solutions on the market but, as always, there is room for more, so KWorld did not shy away from unleashing a new product of this sort, opting for a design with less embellishments than some might expect.The thing about black and white is that, as non-colors, they can practica... |
11 April 2011
04:37 GMT |
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Android phone users interested in trying out a new media player on their devices have now at their disposal Songbird for Android 1.0, already made available for download via the Android Market. The new application arrives in the software portal following a period of beta testing, and offers a series of features that... |
18 March 2011
06:16 GMT |
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Lately, media players have pretty much become standard for every home theater setup out there, so Asus is trying its luck yet another time with the O!Play Mini that will hit Europe in early January for 69 Euros featuring full 1080p video playback and a compact size.
Taking a good look at its specifications, it be... |
27 December 2010
05:45 GMT |
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Coming to make its contribution to the market of consumer electronics, and the fields of entertainment and multimedia in particular, is LaCie, whose labs have now sent out the company's newest media player. Basically, LaCie completed the development of its latest media player, one certain LaCinema Mini HD.As it... |
18 November 2010
06:36 GMT |
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With Google TV out and away there's no denying the fact the Boxee Box has quite some competition in front of it, but D-Link is not going to give up without a fight and announced during the US and Canada launch event the two streaming big dogs are prepared to jump on board.These streaming services will add to an ... |
11 November 2010
04:44 GMT |
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In a move meant to revamp the appeal of one of its older products, Patriot Memory took its Box Office all-in-one media player and remodeled it in such a way as to incorporate multiple new advantages.The first thing that Patriot Memory did to the Box Office media player was change its name to PBO Core.This product me... |
8 November 2010
09:56 GMT |
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With the advent of smartphones and tablets I have to admit that I am no longer a believer when it comes down to PMPs, but this hasn't stop Creative from designing the Zen Touch 2, an 3.2 inch Android 2.1 powered media player that comes loaded full of features, missing just GSM capabilities to be called a smartph... |
3 November 2010
03:06 GMT |
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Western Digital seems really serious when it comes down to its media player line, the company just announcing the new WD TV Live Hub that adds media center capabilities to its already impressive WD TV series, this new device coming in with a 1TB networked hard drive.What this means is that you can now store all you c... |
26 October 2010
09:04 GMT |
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Though it won't exactly be the first to do it, Western Digital will be getting around to releasing a hard drive of 3 TB sometime this month, along with some other electronics it had been working on.As some end-users might know, the first company to actually launch hard disk drives of 3 TB, even an external one,... |
4 October 2010
02:53 GMT |
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Coming to offer something new for the consumer electronics market, QNAP has issued a press release in which it presents the NMP-1000P, an electronic capable of playing Full HD videos and equipped with a large storage capacity. Though the web has been more abundant in news of new PCs and hardware components lately, t... |
30 September 2010
05:51 GMT |
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Though best known for its personal computer lines, especially mobile ones, Acer has taken a break from unleashing new laptops one after another in order to supply the European market with the Revo View, its media player capable of 1,080p video playback.The Revo View was unveiled at this year's IFA show and has ... |
22 September 2010
05:52 GMT |
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During the recently ended IFA 2010 show in Berlin, ViewSonic unveiled a certain device, the MB-P702 to be exact, which is not exactly a tablet and focuses on just one set of capabilities, the greatest of those being Full HD video playback.Doubtless, the highlight of ViewSonic's exhibition were the dual-boot 10-... |
7 September 2010
10:45 GMT |
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Though the capabilities of media streamers and NAS (network-attached storage) devices are not always found in combinations, Digital Cowboy decided it would develop such an electronic, eventually coming up with the Xtreamer Pro, or DC-MC35UL4.Normally, when buying a media streamer, consumers expect it to play as many... |
30 August 2010
09:45 GMT |
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Eager to have its customers enjoy online streaming services in addition to usually sources of multimedia, Netgear has announced the addition of the NeoTV 350 and 550, a pair of Full HD media players with LAN connectivity and other features.Basically, media streaming has become quite popular, so makers of multimedia ... |
27 August 2010
05:24 GMT |
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While TVs are getting larger and larger, the means by which end-users can stream high-quality multimedia files are getting increasingly smaller, and Amex Digital just made the latest step in this direction, by unveiling the MP-501, supposedly the smallest HD media player on the market, measuring just 175 x 128 x 15m... |
19 August 2010
04:45 GMT |
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An application that requires iOS 3.2 or later has appeared on the iTunes App Store enabling owners of an Apple iPad to download and install it on their tablets to watch Xvid content. The move is surprising, with Apple standing by the MPEG-4 and H.264 formats while pushing other standards aside.It is not uncommon for ... |
10 August 2010
05:41 GMT |
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Western Digital may have gained its fortune from making and selling storage solutions, and while it definitely focuses on this business outlet, it is not limited to it. In fact, the company deals in a variety of other things, such as media players like the Elements Play line. Nevertheless, WD's strong suit rema... |
9 August 2010
02:42 GMT |
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Digital video recorders are definitely not a new product concept, but it appears that such devices have a much higher potential for innovation than some may think. AC Ryan even seems to have proven this with its unveiling of the Playon! DVR. It is, essentially, a new digital video recorder, but it has a couple of spe... |
23 July 2010
04:41 GMT |
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The first bugfix version for the major release 1.1.x of the well-known media player from VideoLAN, VLC has been released. Almost one month of development and 17 million downloads later the team comes up with build 1.1.1 of the player, which focuses on setting things right with plenty of bugs and issues.Fixes and imp... |
22 July 2010
08:36 GMT |
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Tuniq doesn't exactly have a history when it comes to multimedia playback electronics, being mostly known for its PC enclosures and cooling solutions. Still, this didn't phase the hardware and consumer electronic maker at all when it considered making a HD media player. The company has been working on the ... |
9 July 2010
10:48 GMT |
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Now that the strong stream of new PCs has settled down somewhat, companies that specialize in other types of products can finally have their say. Brite-View, for one, seems most inclined towards taking advantage of this opportunity, and its new iteration of the CinemaTube is definitely an indication of that. The new... |
3 July 2010
04:11 GMT |
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Although video and audio media revolves around them, media players today no longer receive the attention they used to. It is true that formats now ask for more elaborate solutions to support them, but a clean, simple to use and free media player will always be sought as an alternative.Style Jukebox is new on the mark... |
2 July 2010
09:31 GMT |
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VLC Player, the once-thought-extinct media player for Mac users, has been promoted to version 1.1.0, a stable release not just for Mac OS X, but also for Windows and Linux PC users. The new version brings improved support for MKV HD, including seeking fixes, and 7.1 channels codecs, support for new codecs (Blu-Ray su... |
23 June 2010
05:33 GMT |
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The new CPUs from AMD and Intel are running rampant, NVIDIA is finally competing with ATI on the DirectX 11 front and motherboard makers have already started experimenting with next-generation chipsets. All in all, it can be said that the major product launches of this first half of the year have come and gone. This ... |
15 June 2010
04:59 GMT |
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Apple has released QuickTime Player 7.6.6, a new version of its old media player originally debuted in Mac OS Classix (System 7). Also available for Windows, QuickTime Player 7 supports older media formats such as QTVR, interactive QuickTime movies, and MIDI files. Those who upgraded to Snow Leopard can continue usin... |
11 May 2010
03:03 GMT |
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ReelBean, the powerful video player and converter for Mac OS X, has reached version 4.8, adding iPad support and a small correction to the Movie menu. ReelBean is capable of playing almost any Mac-supported format, and supports the use of third-party plugins that make proprietary formats available. The media-focused ... |
13 April 2010
09:49 GMT |
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Everything is moving online these days, it seems, and entertainment is no different. With YouTube, Hulu, Netflix and plenty of other sites and services to choose from, it might seem that the days of actually owning a movie are gone. But we're not quite there yet, there's still a place for DVDs and you'... |
10 April 2010
08:49 GMT |
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Facebook has a great, little feature that allows users to play MP3 files inside the site. Links to MP3 files, from status updates for example, are converted to an integrated media player enabling users to listen to them directly without downloading the songs. Facebook-focused blog All Facebook uncovered the feature, ... |
18 March 2010
06:17 GMT |
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Simplify Media, the creator of several iPhone applications, has posted “an important announcement” on its blog, revealing the company’s plans to move in a new direction. Leaving the iPhone platform behind, the company has cleared its agenda of the applications it has developed for the iPhone OS and,... |
17 March 2010
10:59 GMT |
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A Softpedia Mac OS X favorite, ReelBean is a video / audio player and converter capable of playing almost any Mac-supported format. It can also handle third-party plugins that make proprietary formats available. The media-focused app is supported on all three major versions of Apple’s OS used today (Tiger, Leop... |
16 March 2010
10:52 GMT |
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USB 3.0 may not have had a very good start, but this seems set to soon change if the variety of SuperSpeed-ready devices from the CeBIT expo in Hanover, Germany is anything to go by. Most new motherboards presented at the show, if not all, have support for the standard, especially those based on the new chipset devel... |
4 March 2010
08:01 GMT |
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JS8Media has released an updated version of its flagship product, ReelBean. The new release, ReelBean 4.6 Build 140, brings only two changes, but existing users are encouraged to download and install. ReelBean is a video / audio player and converter capable of playing almost any Mac-supported format, and supports th... |
16 February 2010
10:56 GMT |
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iTunes is the popular media-player application developed by Apple for Mac and Windows users. Besides its ability to play back audio and video, iTunes serves as a platform for purchasing various kinds of content for your Apple iPod, iPhone, AppleTV, as well as stuff that is best played on a computer. The company head... |
2 February 2010
02:32 GMT |
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Last time we talked about VLC for Mac, the popular media player application was in desperate need of developers, with the people behind the VideoLAN project signaling that development had come to a halt at version 1.0.3. Whether or not anyone has stepped up to the challenge remains to be confirmed, but something posi... |
1 February 2010
10:05 GMT |
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A new version of the full-featured movie converter, player, and editor for Mac OS X is now available from JS8 Media. ReelBean is capable of playing almost any Mac-supported video and audio format, and supports the use of third-party plugins that make proprietary formats available. The media-focused app is supported o... |
21 January 2010
07:53 GMT |
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While ViewSonic has been supplying the market with a steady stream of laptops, all-in-one personal computers, media players and monitors, among other things, the company does not exactly have a history of portable multimedia devices. This, however, seems ready to change, with the hardware maker gearing up to launch a... |
21 January 2010
07:05 GMT |
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Over at the VideoLan forum, a post titled “VLC is looking for MacOS X developers” reveals that there are currently “zero” developers handling the Mac version of the popular media player. “As an immediate consequence, the 64-bits releases for MacOS has already been put on hold,” Vid... |
12 January 2010
05:51 GMT |
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Among the many announcements of notebooks, netbooks, desktops, Blu-ray related products and USB 3.0 technology, Sherwood distinguished itself from other companies by offering a unique merger of the most attractive features possessed by the more popular products from three different market segments. The company is goi... |
6 January 2010
11:01 GMT |
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One piece over at the VideoLAN.org site claims that rumors of VLC for Mac being close to its end are greatly exaggerated. “VLC for Mac is being maintained,” the post explains. “However the old Cocoa graphical interface of VLC is not being maintained at this time.” That’s pretty much what... |
22 December 2009
05:55 GMT |
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VideoLAN is sad to announce that all work on the Mac OS X version of VLC may come to a halt. The open source media playback application is most notable for bridging the gap between official playback solutions developed by Apple and Microsoft, delivering support for a wide range of file formats. The software is being ... |
17 December 2009
06:55 GMT |
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