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Media players might not be as popular as they were just a few years ago, but this hasn’t stopped Cowon from releasing a new PMP model, the Z2 Plenue running Google’s Android OS. Behind that classy looking chassis, the company installed a 1GHz Telechips ARM Cortex-A8 processor which enables it to play bac... |
8 February 2012
15:01 GMT |
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It’s been a while since Media Player Classic Home Cinema received an update, but today the developer announced that version 1.6.0 is available for download. The new release comes with a pretty hefty list of changes, which include both new stuff and fixes and updates for the built-in components. Among the most... |
31 January 2012
11:38 GMT |
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As far as features are concerned, the freshly released PowerDVD 12 is quite impressive. CyberLink equipped the latest release of their Blu-ray and media player with more than 30 new features and extends the list of supported formats (lossless FLAC and OGG and MK3D included).
Among the most notable modifications ther... |
31 January 2012
10:33 GMT |
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VideoLAN has rolled out the first release candidate of VLC 2.0, codenamed “Twoflower” - a completely revamped version of the popular media player. The Mac version in particular has received quite a few nifty enhancements, both inside and out.The first thing VideoLAN documents is the changed license (on wh... |
30 January 2012
14:40 GMT |
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People who live in Japan and have 14,000 JPY ($182.4 / 138.20 Euro) to spare may want to take a look at the LinkTheater LT-V200 multi-format media player.Apparently, in addition to its base functions, it has two USB ports (back and front) that let it behave like a DLNA-compliant NAS server.Also, the existence of a SA... |
28 January 2012
07:14 GMT |
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The wait for VLC media player 2.0 is almost over, as the development team readied the first release candidate for this version.
Modifications available in this build are plenty, touching on packagers, core, access, codecs, demuxers, interfaces, video output, audio output and filters, video filters and stream output.... |
27 January 2012
07:37 GMT |
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If Angry Birds-themed phone cases and Flash drives aren’t enough for you, Roku now offers you the chance to complete your Angry Birds collection with a new Limited Edition 3100AB 1080p 2 XS streaming player.Yes, you read that right: the Roku 2 XS is now also available with a special Angry Birds themed case.So w... |
19 January 2012
18:21 GMT |
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At first glance, the O!Play TV Pro might look like your ordinary media player, but don’t be too quick to judge as this new O!Play has a few tricks up its sleeves, which are definitely worthy of your attention.
What does that mean, you ask? Well, when building the O!Play TV Pro, Asus has decided to give it not ... |
18 January 2012
11:18 GMT |
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Sigma Designs, like so many other companies, did not miss out on the opportunity provided by CES 2012.The main attraction at its booth is said to be the EasyTV, basically the smallest media player ever to be created.Still in the stage of reference design, a prototype as it were, the credit-card-sized item, nonetheles... |
13 January 2012
11:25 GMT |
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Looks like Sony isn't jumping off the Google TV ship, having released not just a media player with support for it, but also a Blu-ray player.The Media Player is called NSZ-GS7 while the Blu-ray unit bears the name of NSZ-GP9.Both of them connect to HDTVs via HDMI and can either relay TV broadcasts or let users b... |
10 January 2012
11:19 GMT |
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Remember that Android-running media player built by Shenzhen Geniatech that visited the FCC offices at the end of December? Back then we presumed that the OEM will make its design available under a variety of brands and modes and it appears that we were right, as Patriot has now launched a remarkably similar device.... |
10 January 2012
09:40 GMT |
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CRAM claimed to be the first company to invent a portable home entertainment system, one that already has a comprehensive product page.
All CRAM said in the press release was that the Venu is the first of its kind, but what the thing can or cannot do is explained at length here.
The company made a point of ment... |
7 January 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Samsung has begun officially announcing the devices it will have on display during the 2012 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show.
Even though CES hasn't started and won't start for another week, companies are eagerly setting the stage.
Among other things, this means that Samsung saw no reason to refr... |
4 January 2012
15:41 GMT |
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The wait for VLC 1.2.0 is close to an end as the development team just launched a pre-release for this version.
It is a major version, so changes abound; they affect packagers, codecs, demuxers, audio filters and output and video filters. Additionally, a hefty set of modules has been removed.
One important note fo... |
29 December 2011
09:52 GMT |
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Ricardo Villalba proudly announced today, December 29th, the immediate availability for download of the SMPlayer 0.6.10 media player frontend for Linux. SMPlayer 0.6.10 comes after a few months of development and it brings interesting features, such as:· Added VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix)... |
29 December 2011
03:00 GMT |
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This might just the the first unibody media player anyone's ever made and it belongs to Cowon, a Korean company that doesn't even make the ”world's greatest” consumer electronics manufacturer list.
Cowon didn't make an official announcement but the Z2 did pass through the FCC (Federal... |
27 December 2011
10:17 GMT |
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Western Digital’s streaming media players have just gained access to a wider selection of online content as the outfit has now added VUDU to the list of supported services.Thanks to this new addition, WD TV units will be able to stream a wide selection of 1080p Full HD videos with Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 audio f... |
21 December 2011
08:54 GMT |
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The VideoLAN organization has just released VLC 1.1.13, a multimedia player which can run lots of video formats, without the help of special codecs. VLC 1.1.13 was only made available because of a single security problem that needed to be fixed (details follow).When parsing the header of an invalid TY file, the heap ... |
21 December 2011
06:00 GMT |
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Mac and Windows PC users worldwide can now download a new version of iTunes, Apple’s media player and digital hub for iOS application and media downloads.According to the company headquartered at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California, “iTunes 10.5.2 includes several improvements for iTunes Match and fixe... |
13 December 2011
02:37 GMT |
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The change set for the latest version of GOM Media Player is not rich, but comprises some important notes that show an increased functionality of the application.
Apart from improving playback of uncompressed AVI files, GOM Player 2.1.36 corrects a problem that prevented it from playing some FLV files.
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12 December 2011
07:18 GMT |
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The latest Winamp does not show new features, but improves the functionality of the player through the set of fixes it brings to the table.
Winamp 5.623 repairs MP3 decoding errors at the end of the file, which should eliminate CD burning errors. The AAC decoder also been adjusted to detect parametric stereo for AAC... |
12 December 2011
03:40 GMT |
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If you are a fan of Syabas’ Popcorn Hour A-300 but the lack of Blu-Ray support made you look elsewhere for your media player needs, the recently released C-300 may just be what you’ve been waiting for.The new Popcorn Hour takes almost all the features introduced in the original A-300, except for USB 3.0 s... |
8 December 2011
09:55 GMT |
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Denis Koryavov, lead user interface developer at the ROSA Laboratory, proudly announced last evening, November 30th, the immediate availability of a new media player for all Mandriva users.Called ROSA Media Player (or ROMP for short), the new media player for Mandriva/ROSA is based on the source code from popular MPL... |
1 December 2011
06:05 GMT |
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Western Digital seem to be committed to providing customers of the company's media players with access to as many multimedia services as possible and recently has added Vimeo and PlayJam online content support to their WD TV products.Vimeo enables users to explore an ever growing catalog of videos uploaded by pr... |
18 November 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Plenty of users are content with the Android version of Winamp just the way it is. But fans out there are asking for various features from the developer. And progress of a program is generally shaped by the demanding side of its community. In the case of Winamp Android, some long for the functionality available in ... |
16 November 2011
16:21 GMT |
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Apple’s support page just posted that Windows users may have trouble after installing iTunes 10.5 on their systems. The symptoms are pretty serious and include increased usage of resources as well as a decrease in performance.
However, if you get past these and somehow manage to open the application, you might... |
8 November 2011
07:45 GMT |
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You may not have heard of it, but AIMP is a very popular media player. Version 3 of the application has freshly moved from beta stage of development to the first release candidate.
There are plenty of modifications that shaped up the current release, correcting previous issues or adding new features to various modul... |
7 November 2011
07:30 GMT |
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There’s a new Winamp in town, although Nullsoft has not modified the version number on their main page just yet. Version 5.622 of the player brings mainly fixes regarding various MP3 and MP4 audio formats, and no new features are listed among the changes.It now supports TXXX (Band) tag as an alternative to... |
26 October 2011
11:05 GMT |
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Blu-ray and 3D are the two concepts most popular these days when it comes to video, and not many players come with full support for these technologies. TotalMedia Theatre from ArcSoft embraces both of them and aims to deliver cinema-like experiences on your computer.The requirements necessary to take full advantage o... |
25 October 2011
09:01 GMT |
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Despite speculation that Apple was going to axe some iPod models this year, the company has eliminated none of the existing models and even kept the iPod classic, the player that resembles the original 2001 iPod the most.This month (on October 23 to be precise), Apple iPod is ten years old. The player marked a shift ... |
24 October 2011
05:15 GMT |
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Western Digital has invested quite a lot of effort in the development of its line of media players and earlier today it introduced the next-generation of WD TV Live streaming player that claims it's the first in its category to support the Spotify music service. The media player is available in two versions, one... |
6 October 2011
10:50 GMT |
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Apple yesterday put the kibosh on rumors saying the company was going to axe some of its iPod offerings. Instead, it upgraded two of the existing ones - the iPod touch and the iPod nano, albeit only with minor retouches.Probably the biggest upgrade is actually a downgrade of the players’ prices.The touch now st... |
5 October 2011
05:57 GMT |
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There have been multiple occasions where analysts looked into the future of optical media and the latest such occurrence has In-Stat as the one responsible, the prediction being one that isn't too favorable to the DVD.
HDTVs may not be too widespread now, but they will definitely account for more and more of... |
30 September 2011
04:42 GMT |
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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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