The iPod is a portable digital media player designed and manufactured by Apple Computers. The standard iPod model stores media on a built in hard drive while the smaller iPod Shuffle and iPod nano uses flash memory. The iPod has became the world’s best selling digital audio player since its launch in 2001.

An IPod can play MP3, WAV, AAC/M4A, Protected AAC, AIFF, Audible audio book and Apple Lossless audio file formats. The fifth generation iPod can now play m4v and mp4 video files. With this addition, the iPod has become a complete multimedia player.  Read more... (600 words, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)

J. River, a Digital Rights Management solution provider and developer of MEDIA JUKEBOXโ„ข, the world’s first universal media player, today announced an agreement with QSound Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSND) to offer the Qmp3Dโ„ข sound management plug-in to MEDIA JUKEBOX users.

Qmp3D works by โ€œconvertingโ€ audio to full 3D during playback. โ€œQmp3D vastly improves the quality of digital music,โ€ said Jim Hillegass, CEO of J. River. โ€œWith this one plug-in, MEDIA JUKEBOX users can maximize their audio listening experience and get a bigger, more realistic sound from their speakers.

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Introducing the CVJY-C28, a total in-dash car navigation, entertainment, and communication solution that takes intelligent in-car enhancement systems to the next level! Next Level Navigation: This 2-DIN (100 mm tall) all in one car wonder comes standard with the Windows CE 5.0 mobile operating system to run today’s most popular GPS software and software features like lane assist, voice guidance, 3-D views, intelligent route planning, points of interest, real time traffic and weather data, map update and share, and emergency response to your location.  Read more... (2026 words, estimated 8:06 mins reading time)

Say hello to the CVJY-C29, an in-dash double DIN car audio and video enhancement system with all the state of the art features you need to put other car DVD players to shame! For Those Who Want Navigation: This 2-DIN (100 mm tall) wonder comes with Windows CE 5.0, the mobile operating system of choice to run today’s most popular GPS software titles. Load in your maps and experience amazing features like lane assist, voice guidance, 3-D views, intelligent route planning, points of interest, real time traffic and weather data, map update and share, and emergency response to your location.  Read more... (2094 words, estimated 8:23 mins reading time)

There are many folks that hate both Apple and Microsoft portable media products. Apple makes iPod and Microsoft makes Zune. Fortunately for the consumer, there are other good portable media players out there now but do not have the same visibility as Apple and Microsoft products. Discussion about these other portable media players like SanDisk’s Sansa series and Creative’s Zen series devices are beyond the scope of this article. This article is about basic iPod and Zune similarities and differences.

In addition, sources for purchasing music online for iPod and Zune will be briefly discussed.  Read more... (629 words, estimated 2:31 mins reading time)

Third edition of our popular C14, 2-DIN 7 Inch Touch Screen Car Media System, the Quantum Leap has all the features you love in our car audio/video multimedia players, but takes out the GPS and DVB-T functions to give you the best factory-direct price possible! The Quantum Leap comes with a DVD+CD+VCD player, SD card slot, USB connection, iPod connection, and Bluetooth connectivity to keep you entertained and networked wherever the road takes you. Pretty soon, you’ll actually start looking forward to traffic jams and rush hour because it will give you a chance to catch up on your favorite music! This is the car audio and video system your car has been waiting for! The Quantum Leap comes with everything you’ll ever need from a car media system to keep you and your passengers entertained for hours.  Read more... (1170 words, estimated 4:41 mins reading time)

The AV700 with its amazing 7″ LCD widescreen and 480×234 pixels is your media companion. This is by far the largest viewing screen of all the Multimedia players and the AV700 is less than an inch thick. A 100GB capacity in an 8-inch machine is amazing! You have the power to store 400 hours of video, 250 movies, 55,000 songs or 1,000,000 photos! record and play 1000’s of TV shows and movies. The AV700 lets you get video and music content from Microsoft PlaysForSure websites. Now you can take all your entertainment with you everywhere you go.  Read more... (671 words, estimated 2:41 mins reading time)