Oh how I wish I had time to sit around entertaining myself via one of the many nifty portable media players currently on the market. But despite my conception that dedicated personal media players are useless given the growing number of smartphones that encompass their feature set, the suits over at Viewsonic obviously feel differently [...]
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Viewsonic VPD400 Portable Media Player
November 10th, 2009
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Personal Media Players 
Tags: personal media player, PMP, viewsonic VPD400 
No Comments »Mobile 3D TV Coming Soon…
October 19th, 2009
It seems like 2010 is going to be the breakout year for 3D capable TV’s. A perfect storm of content production and hardware integration promises to finally lift the technology from a cheap trick to mainstream habit. Already, companies such as Sony and Panasonic are demonstrating and producing 3D capable TV’s as described here and here. As we’ve [...]
Watching TV just got easier!
October 16th, 2009
TV lovers rejoice! Thanks to the recently ratified ATSC mobile digital TV standard, you may soon find yourself watching live broadcast TV via a portable device. While all those NTSC compatible Sony Watchmen will still be trash, expect innumerable ATSC enabled portable personal media devices to flood the market in the very near future.
The full ATSC [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Content Delivery, Personal Media Players, TV and Video, Technology Tags: ATSC, HD, NTSC, PMP, Sony, TV 1 Comment »When you just can’t get enough TV…
October 6th, 2009
Remember when your parents would tell you you’re watching too much TV? Well apparently the creators of FLO TV never got that message. The live mobile TV service today announced the FLO TV personal television to compliment its line of car and mobile phone TV service options.
The portable device has an unfortunately small 3.5″ touch [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Personal Media Players, TV and Video Tags: FLO TV, personal TV 1 Comment »When a netbook is too big and an iPhone is too small…
October 3rd, 2009
…get a Mobile Internet Device (MID). As processors, such as Intel’s Atom, continue to decrease their power requirements thus increasing device battery life, a growing number of mobile Internet devices will carve an interesting niche between the netbook and pocketable Internet capable device markets. Often built with 5-7″ touchscreens and tailored towards playback of media files, mobile Internet [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Personal Media Players Tags: Android, Intel, MID, mobile Internet device, RAmos, touchscreen 2 Comments »Show some love for the iLuv I1166 PMP? Probably not!
September 28th, 2009
Here’s an interesting idea. Take a 9″ LCD display, slap an iPod dock, SD/MMC reader, and DVD player into it, get it Divx certified, and link it all together via a simple user interface. This is exactly what iLuv did to create its much hyped i1166 PMP.
The device is unique, having been a “Best of [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Personal Media Players Tags: i1166, iLuv, iPod, MMC, personal media player, PMP, SD No Comments »Would you buy a Sandisk SlotRadio?
August 19th, 2009
Like so many other “firsts” in my life, I can remember my first mp3…downloaded at 56kbps from a dial up BBS about 15 years ago. It was Adam Sandler’s _______, and I remember immediately realizing that this new format was going to put an end to the reign of the mighty compact disk. Before mp3s, [...]
Posted in Audio, Consumer Electronics, Personal Media Players Tags: entertainment, flash, mp3, radio, songs No Comments »Next up…holograms from robots!
August 18th, 2009
Well things certainly seem to be progressing that way. Pico projectors are nothing new, having emerged way back in early 2008. Since then, we’ve seen them incorporated into everything from stand-alone devices to cell phones. Now, in what appears to be the next logical progression, Yinlips, a Chinese company, has put pico projection into a [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Displays and Projectors, Personal Media Players, TV and Video Tags: China, dvd, pico, PMP, projector 1 Comment »A good reason not to buy cheap knockoffs…
August 14th, 2009
A Chinese outfit called ePathChina.com announced today the availability of a new 2GB personal media player supporting a slew of standard audio and video formats. With its 1.8″ screen, FM radio, and E-book functionality, the device doesn’t stand out in the crowd of other mp3 players, such as the IPod Touch, in terms of features.
What [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Personal Media Players Tags: China, IPod Touch, mp3, player, PMP No Comments »
