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More Linux Portable Media Players On The Way

Posted by timothy on from the promises-promises dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to LinuxDevices.com, Taiwanese motherboard maker FIC will unveil a Linux-based portable media player (PMP) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. FIC's 'Vassili' includes a 3.6-inch color LCD screen and a 20GB hard drive, and supports files in MPEG 1-4, MP3, WMA, WAV, ASF, AVI, and JPEG format. Speaking of Linux-based PMPs, Archos will also showcase its lastest PMP, the Pocket Media Assistant PMA400 at CES, and other Linux-based PMPs have recently been announced by iRiver, Veritouch, and Zupera."

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  1. I'll save you all the trouble. . . by Limburgher · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What about OGG support? That's the single killer feature for me.

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  2. Death of the PDA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Am I the only one who finds it sad that these monstrosities are replacing PDA's? I remember how excited I was at the possibilities presented by those amazing, tiny computers. The things we could do with them, now and in the future. Now that everyone has their calendar app, the innovative companies that were making them are either going out of business or dropping the product lines.

    But it's OK! We have this nifty device you can watch movies on! Look at the pretty colors!

  3. OGG support ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    ... for those of you who re-code all of your MP3s into OGG just so you can say you use OGG/adhere to retarded political beliefs! MP3 is *CLOSED* and *EVIL*!!1!!1 Oh noes!1~1!

    Yayyyy!

    I mean, fuck the quality loss, you're l337 if you use OGG.

  4. Is this Useful? by Thunderstruck · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Where is a device like this going to see the most use? At home most gadget customers have the equipment to play all sorts of media, a larger screen, and a couch.

    At work, they have a 14" screen but no couch.

    Outside of work and home, well its -15F today...

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    1. Re:Is this Useful? by __aacvzh55 · · Score: 2, Insightful


      I spend at least 2 hours every day on public transit.

      Plenty of time to find the Amulet of Yendor while humming along to some mp3's :)

  5. Why why why oh why? by gelfling · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yesterday I was in Target and MP3 players have reached the point where they are packaged in that impossible to open plastic card and hung on metal pegboard hooks in lots of 10. Even with extra storage we're still talking in the $150 range. Why would anyone care what OS it runs? It's practically disposable at that point.

  6. How did FIC license wmv for Linux? by Thagg · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I was under the impression that the wmv family of formats was proprietary to Microsoft. I'd be shocked into next Tuesday if MS licensed those codecs to be used for a Linux-based player. How is it possible that FIC is doing this legally?

    Thad

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