Showing posts with label portable. Show all posts
Showing posts with label portable. Show all posts

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Amazon DRM-Free MP3's


Amazon are set to take on iTunes and wipe the floor with their new MP3 store! With MP3's now available from 100's of thousands of artists, from major to small independent labels, amazon bring you millions of tunes ready for downloading easily to your iPod, smartphone, mp3 player and your hard-drive. Now that these tunes are available without DRM (Digital Rights Management) you can transfer the tunes to any number of your portable MP3 players, or even burn the tunes to your own CD's. This will definitely give amazon MP3's an edge over music downloaded from iTunes with their restrictions on which media player you can use aand what you can do with the tunes once downloaded.

Amazon are also promoting the new release of their MP3 downloads by making available a free tune each day! Checkout amazon mp3's here. All tunes are compatible with Windows Media Player, iTunes & any music management application or hardware.

Cost
Most songs are priced from 89 cents to 99 cents, with more than 1 million of the 2 million songs priced at 89 cents. The top 100 best-selling songs are 89 cents, unless marked otherwise. Most albums are priced from $5.99 to $9.99. The top 100 best-selling albums are $8.99 or less, unless marked otherwise.


Quality
Every song on Amazon MP3 is encoded at 256 kilobits per second, which gives customers high audio quality at a manageable file size.


Chart
Also available is an amazon download chart to see which are the most popular tunes & albums in dozens of categories!

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Pocket Digital Freeview TV Comparison

MPman 3" Pocket Digital Freeview TV
Vs.
Speedvision 3.5" Digital Freeview TV & Radio

These 2 pocket sized Digital Televisions with freeview both appear to offer very similair performance and value.

Both offer the ability of allowing you to use it as a freeview box for your TV by having video & audio outputs. Both also have the facility of using it as a radio receiver.

Though when getting down to the technical and performance comparisons it is obvoius there is a clear winner.

Although the MPman has a slightly smaller screen, the picture quality is superior at 960x320pixels in comparison with the Speedvision that only has a QVGA display with 320 x 240pixels.

Vision quality alone may not be enough, but the MPman also performs better in terms of receiving a signal, something that can be hit and miss in this world of patchy digital signals.

I am not alone in believing the MPman to be the superior Pocket TV, reviews of it on Amazon are overwhelmingly in praise of it.

Check out the current price below on Amazon UK for both, and feel free to look at the product reviews there.