Sinse this is a high-end audio player first and video player second, it allows those that want DVD-audio without the video part to preview and use the DVD navigation through its front touchpad.
They were also digging its capable audio player -- with support for MP3, WMA and AAC files -- along with the unit's decent battery life, which clocked in at just around four hours.
The IceTouch (YP-H1), featuring the world's first 2-inch, full color, transparent Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) touch-screen display, functions as a DVD-quality video player, studio quality audio player, an ultra-portable photo album, an FM radio and even a portable storage device.
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If you're in the market for a dedicated, easy-to-pocket audio player that can handle the occasional video then it's hard to beat Sony's new Walkman S-series of players.
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Sony invented the Walkman and the portable CD player, but was never more than a third-fiddle player in the digital audio world.
Say hello to the TRANSGEAR HMP-100, a portable audio player from a Japanese company called Nagase Industrial Corporation.
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Last week's column examined some of the new capabilities of the Sansa Connect, a portable digital audio player designed for an always-connected world.
The X5000 is the high-end within Helio's media player lineup partly thanks to its high-end audio components that we are here to tell you, makes a difference.
The 90-store chain plans to open a new online service this summer that lets consumers create their own podcasts--audio and video shows designed to be downloaded onto a computer or portable media player--using a catalog of some 6, 000 songs, which Tower will provide free of charge.
Music fans who just want to hear Mozart without pictures would buy audio-only discs, playable on a DVDaudio player.
Any restricted video or audio will be labelled in the pop-up player with any restrictions that apply so check the text to the right of the video window.
One main reason: The company had a history of religious devotion to proprietary file formats, and took years to release a digital audio player that could handle the ever-popular MP3 format.
Live streaming of video is also now available in a UK-only embedded format, but live audio - as well as certain other content - may appear in the old pop-up player for the time being.
Skype is the dominant player in Internet audio and video communications--people use "Skype" as a verb--and now Microsoft owns it.
The just-unveiled Media Player 7 handles most audio and video formats, is an MP3 jukebox for recording, organizing and playing music, and has enough advanced features to take on the competition - including a 10-band equalizer, a psychedelic light-show that pulses in time to the music, and appearance-changing "skins" that turn the gray box into things like the big green head pictured.
The pop-up player, used for live video and audio, is a Watch or Listen icon which launches a player in a separate internet window and requires Real Player or Window Media Player to work.
Every Blu-ray player is required to support certain options regarding audio, interactive menus, etc.
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The player supports several types of discs including DVD-Audio, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, CD-R and CD-RW. There's also an SD Memory card slot, so you can look at photos you may have saved from a digital camera.
SmartDisk's clever FlashPath devices that will let you use the memory cards in a 3.5-inch floppy drive, or, for music, an audio cassette player.
Providing true Hi-Fi quality and plug-and-play usability, the playGo AP1 is a fully featured audio player platform that combines DLNA support with AirPlay technology in one elegant package that seamlessly transmits superior audio from almost all media sources.
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Plus, with 30 hours of battery during audio playback and 5 hours for video, the 0.4-inch thick player doesn't do bad for itself at all in that department.
It of course has every type of hook up that a high-end player would have, including balanced XLR inputs for you audio folks and component RGBHV outputs for you projector guys and gals.
Standard onboard features include the Audio 20 with a 14.7 cm colour screen, a twin tuner, an MP3-capable CD player and a USB connection.
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