

MSI developed and showcased the first solar powered player, the MSI MEGA 540, at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. Some other examples of portable media players with these capabilities include the Archos Gmini series, aigo E-858, X2 MegaView series, the Neuros 442, the iriver series of media players, the Olympus m:robe, the acclaimed iStation v43, MP4 Star by Intechip Corp. It also included a USB host capability for link up to other portable devices without the use of a PC. The Samsung Yepp YP-T8 also provided these capabilities, as well as voice, FM radio, and line recording. The Sony HMP-A1, released only in Japan and Europe, had these same capabilities as well as longer battery life. Also the Creative Zen Vision:M is another player that can play both audio and video, picks up FM Radio and records voice as well as the larger screened (2.5" to 4" respectively) Zen Vision. In this instance the Apple 5th-generation iPod could be considered a portable media player- as it is capable of playing back audio as well as displaying digital pictures and video. Some portable media players can store and display digital images. Some even count some Handheld game consoles like sony's PSP and GamePark Holdings' GP2X as being a PMP for their media playing capabilities.Ī portable video player is a type of portable media player which focuses on the playback of digital video.

The main attraction of portable media players is often their versatility: being able to load and play different formats of video (including MPEG, DivX, and XviD), audio (including MP3, WAV, and Ogg Vorbis), or digital images, (including BMP, JPEG, and GIF). This lets you download a song in minutes rather than hours, and store hundreds of songs on your hard disc without taking up much space. With MP3, a 32 megabyte (MB) song on a CD compresses to about 3 MB. The MP3 format helps reduce the number of bytes in a song without hurting the quality of the song's sound. MP3 format is a compression system for music. A portable multimedia player, or PMP is a hard disk or flash memory based electronic device, such as an "MP3 player", which is capable of storing and playing files in one or more media formats. There are other options we can use which are downloading onto MP3 players or iPods. We have the option to either rip songs from existing CD's onto new blank CD's or download music from the internet and burn songs onto a CD. Now we have engines like 'Limewire' (file sharing software) where we do not have to pay to download music. Years ago we used to use an engine called Napster to download music. We can either play CD's on the computer or download music from the internet. We have watched music evolve from the record album to the 8 track players to cassettes and now compact discs (CD's) and portable media players (PMP). Computers have come a long way in the entertainment/music area.
