Take a look at the soon-to-be released ViewSonic MovieBook, a personal media player with a MSRP of $149.99 (which probably means around $100 street). So why talk about this media player over others? The ViewSonic MovieBook can play lots of video and audio formats at a low price. If you have a video collection that is encoded in various formats and you don’t feel like re-encoding everything, the ViewSonic MovieBook starts to look a lot more interesting.

Photo from CruchGear Samsung has already put DivX on its televisions and now Samsung’s just introduced its R1, a personal media player that can play DivX video. The screen is a bit on the small side at 2.6-inches, so it probably is not the best for longer watching experiences. The R1 comes in two capacities, more »

A little over a month ago, Cowon announces a few new PMP’s including the S9 and the O2. At that time, the release date of the two weren’t known. Recently, Cowon announced they would be available in November.

Let’s recap what exactly these PMP’s are and what makes them special. The O2 PMP comes with a big 4.3 inch AMOLED touchscreen, DMB receiver, an amazing 9 hours of video playback, and supports so many formats such as…

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Remember the SPINN that iriver has been teasing us with since CES? Well, iriver has finally released some information about the Spinn, most notably that it will be available in the United States by October 3rd for under $300.

Back in April, you may remember Egoman’s MP810RSTD-43, which is a similar PMP to Egoman’s newest device, the MP810RSTX. At first glance, you’re probably thinking “what a weird name for a MP3 player” and I agree. I’m not sure why it doesn’t have a normal name, instead of a random assortment of letters and numbers. more »

Nope that’s not a portable GPS unit. In fact, its the latest portable media player offering from iriver, dubbed the “P.ple P10.” First introduced at CES 2008, the P10 was expected to release Q1 2008, but iriver was a little late in their delivery. Regardless, the company has now officially launched their iPod Touch rival in two forms: The iRiver P10 Standard ($328) and Pro ($398). Spec-wise, both models sport a 600MHz processor running a stripped down version of Windows CE, 4-inch TFT touch screen, 800×480 pixel resolution, e-book reader, and a 33GB hard drive. Both models also support PDF, Word and Excel files, and can playback Flash, MPEG, WMA, XivD, MP3, and WAV file formats. However, the P10 Pro adds an electronic dictionary (in English, Chinese, and Japanese) and a DMB digital TV tuner that’s only usable in Korea (so, I doubt this will make it Stateside).