Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Why The Younger Generation Loves Portable Media Players

By Tonya Bennett

A portable media player combines audio, images and videos. Most often these have the MP3 audio format. They may also support other audio formats as Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), WAV and the Windows Media Audio. The images are usually displayed using OLED or LCD screen. JPEG format is the most common although other file formats such as PNG, TIFF and GIF are also used to view images. Most of the portable media players support MPEG-4 video format. They may also be compatible with AVI and Windows Media Video (WMV) formats. Both audio and video transfers between the player and the computer are possible with most portable media players and portable digital assistants (PDAs) using USB cables.

Data is stored by these portable devices using hard drive, microdrive or flash memory. You can now store data using the flash memory based devices up to 32 GB. There has been a steady increase in the data storage capacity though it is lower. The hard drive portable devices have the maximum data storage capacity which goes up to 320 GB. External devices as the memory Sticks, CompactFlash and Secure Digital card can be used to increase the data storage capacity. This facility is available with a number of PDAs and media players. Screen size going up to 7 inches is now available. The resolutions are up to WVGA. They have a color depth ranging from 16-bit to 24-bit. Touchscreen is one of the latest in technologies that is increasingly being incorporated into these devices.

Portable video players, Digital audio players, personal digital assistants and digital video recorders are on offer in various models. The portable media players in the market are SanDisk's Sansa Fuze and Sansa view, Philips' Philips SA6185 8 GB, Creative Labs with their Zen series, Apple's iPod series, Samsung's Samsung T10 and Samsung P2 and Sony's Walkman series.

The Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) is small enough to be held in the palm. It is called a handheld computer. It has all the functions offered by the portable media player. Its history can be traced to 1990s to the humble digital diary. By the 1980s it has already transformed into a palmtop computer. It has all the functions offered in the portable media player. It is very compact, sleek and just the size of the palm that it has become very easy to take it along with you wherever you go. It is not only a media player but also a web browser as well as the mobile phone. With increasingly more areas now covered by Wi-Fi or Wireless Wide-Area Networks, PDAs can now access the intranet or extranets and Internet.

Nowadays, you can amuse yourself where ever you go because companies are producing portable devices. Since so many of these are produced, an important tip is to select the to brands that surely brings you full blast entertainment.

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