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JVC Announces Media-Centric Pocket PCs

Posted by timothy on from the will-even-play-oggs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "infoSync World writes about two new high-end Pocket PC models from JVC, the MP-PV131 and MP-PV331. Running on Windows Mobile 2003, the Pocket PCs boast 128 MB SDRAM, built-in Wi-Fi and MPEG4 video and audio streaming and capture capabilities. The new devices are also equipped with software for use along with JVC camcorders. The new models will be available in the U.S. in September at $499.95 US and $599.95 US respectively"

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  1. Before you ask about OGG by roseblood · · Score: 2, Informative

    Features that both JVC iO Pocket PCs share include the JVC AV player that supports MP3, WAV and Ogg Vorbis compressed audio files, as well as AVI (MPEG4) and ASF (MPEG4) video files.

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  2. Re:MPEG-4 or WM9 by qorkfiend · · Score: 2, Informative

    MPEG-4 is not a player, it's a standard that many video compression codecs (AVI, ASF) are based off of. These things have "[the] latest Microsoft Windows Media Player...", which is 9, I would guess.

    In addition, they use JVC's AV player, with AVI and ASF (which was developed by MS, btw) MPEG-4 support. Looks like JVC's got the MSconception straight, if they're using a non-MS media player and at least one non-MS MPEG-4 codec.

  3. Re:I smell a smash hit. by rice_web · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well of course, a typical camera goes at about 10MBytes a second, right? (though those video editing machines require upwards of 30) But.... that's overkill.

    I'm in the cable advertising business. My father started the business two decades ago, and I've been working for him. The cable spots that he runs in most of his markets are MPEG-1, taking 30 seconds of commercial footage into a 10MB file. That's 2.6Mbits a second, much less than you've said above. Plus, the quality is more than acceptable.

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  4. memory? by SHEENmaster · · Score: 2, Informative

    My zaurus has 64mb of ram, 256mb of SD, 128mb of CF, and 32mb of internal flash. Don't tell me that can't hold the necessary libraries.

    Hell, the Agenda VR3 fit X11 and FLTK into its pitiful amount of ram and storage.

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  5. Try that with a Pocket PC? Sure... by cloudless.net · · Score: 2, Informative
    The apps are great too, including the browser for the color handsprings, free vnc, ssh, and vpn clients, etc. Try that with a pocket pc?

    For Pocket PC:
    Web broser - Pocket Internet Explorer
    Remote Access - VNC, Terminal Service Client
    Remote shell - SSH, telnet

    Best of all, unlike the ancient single-tasking Palm OS, Pocket PC allows you to run all of them at the same time.