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iRiver Preps Linux-based Media Player
Mr_Silver writes "Infosync is reporting that iRiver is soon to release the Linux based PMP-120 media player which through its colour screen can support MP3, ASF, Ogg Vorbis, JPEG, BMP, AVI, MP4, DivX 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, XviD, MPEG4 SP, Advanced SP and MPEG1. Technically very cool (even more so if it is hackable), but really really ugly. iRiver really should learn how to design nice looking hardware from the experts."
I would get it if it played OGG.
Did anyone else originally read the subject as the iRiver PIMP-120?
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
I think the submitter meant they should make it in a pretty shade of lime green or mulberry purple to make it less ugly perhaps?
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
>MP3, ASF, Ogg Vorbis, JPEG, BMP, AVI, MP4, DivX 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, XviD, MPEG4 SP, Advanced SP and MPEG1
And quake3?
Andrej
You may think it's ugly but how can you hate the PiMP-120?
Don't be hatin'. That name pnwz!
Would Apple's version be iPimp?
=tkk
Bill Gates - Creationist?!?
Ahh a bunch of geeks saying what looks good and what doesn't. OK how many of you wear all black more than once a week? OK you don't get to talk from now on. How many of you don't think blue can be worn with orange? OK you also can't talk now. OK now, does anyone else not like the look of the iPod? OK good... :)
By the way, I was playing with an iPod at best buy the other day... it's nice, I think I want a mini, but it's nice.
Pr0n to go!
I agree that the ipod is very sexy, but do you really want to pay hundreds more and/or sacrifice features, just for a few ounces of molded plastic?
I have a simple solution to those who find the PMP-120 ugly: print out a picture of the ipod, and tape it on the back, and voila! You have an awesome multimedia device AND it looks like an ipod!
Oh, you know--people that want to watch their ripped movies and TV shows while jogging, biking, driving, or at work... ...
OK, maybe that's a bad idea.
Seriously, I'd guess it would be the same niche market that is buying the current batch DivX capable portable media centers. All 5 of them... THe only way I can think of them getting it any broader is to lower the price, and we all know that this ain't gonna cost less than $500 when it comes out.
20GB is not* enough for me to fit my photo album
They don't expect you take all of your pr0n with you, just the stuff you can't live without while away from your desk.
KFG
*edited to mean what OP meant
Well, that's cool, but can we install windows on it?
... out of the box, that is! If there was a Linux distro that could play - perfectly and without random pixels everywhere - XviD, DivX 3, 4, and 5, MPEG, ASF, etc, then that would be worth installing.
And before you say "you can compile that support in yourself", let me say to you: get lost! I'm sick to death of having to locate some retard's package of some frigging codec just to watch a movie in sub-standard quality than I can get with Windows Media Player (on my dual boot machine).
Oh, and it sure would be nice if those retarded GUI designers for things like Noatun, Video LAN, and the rest, could put the control buttons in the same bloody window as the video itself. I mean, how bloody difficult could it be? But NOOOO, I have to go ALT-TAB'ing to find that other window.
And I'm sick of seeing the endless stream of articles asking "Is Linux ready for prime time?". The answer is a definite no!
I'm bored with Apple's cutsie names for everything, too.
Then you probably shouldn't buy a player from iRiver.
Lack of interest in aesthetics is why there will be, under no circumstances, sex for you at the end of the evening.
And yet, it looks strangely familiar.