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March 29, 2004

iRiver Discman-Style Media Player

Multimedia device maker iRiver has announced an interesting new media player, the iMP-1100.

The new media player, successor to the iRiver iMP-1000, has the format of a discman-type player, and sports a 2" TFT colour display. This is admittedly a small screen compared to other media players, but the first for portable media players is the additional ability to play from CD.

The iMP-1100 is compatible with DivX, MPEG4, MP3, WMA, ASF and CD-DA file formats.

iRiver has scheduled release of the player for late May to June 2004.

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Comments

What's the point?

The only way portable video will work if you can effortlessly transfer TV shows to the gadget. Right now, you have to manually digitize in 1:1 real time, then compress, then download. Too much work and time to watch the latest episode of "Alias" on the go.

There needs to be a transparent way -- like iTunes - to dock your video player with your Tivo and have it dump video files onto it.

Posted by Unicron at March 29, 2004 12:40 PM

unicron,
Its a CD based device...thats 650 megs of Divx goodness.
thats 10 episodes of dora the explorer for my son.
yes, you have to convert and burn,
(or thanks to kazaa, download and burn)
but thats it...once you have CD full of video,
you can just burn and replace it with fresh stuff!

when the Hard Drive based players come out,
that's when the Syncing will be necessary.
I love Iriver products since I had their first mp3CD player. if this is $100-150, I'll totally buy it.

Posted by Drew at March 29, 2004 01:29 PM

This is great.. Not so much for the cd part, but a portable device that accepts divx... I can't wait till there is a hard drive version for it..

And something that has composite out.
that way I can take my movies with me..

Posted by Michael Mantion at March 31, 2004 03:54 AM

This is great.. Not so much for the cd part, but a portable device that accepts divx... I can't wait till there is a hard drive version for it..

And something that has composite out.
that way I can take my movies with me..

Posted by Michael Mantion at March 31, 2004 03:55 AM

What would be especially nice is if this thing had some sort of TV output

Posted by nick at March 31, 2004 06:43 PM

wats the prize of the discman?

Posted by kitty at April 4, 2004 04:38 AM

wats the prize of the discman?

Posted by kitty at April 4, 2004 04:38 AM

In france : 279 € =300 $ around for this summer (june)

Posted by alexatak at April 5, 2004 08:44 AM

thanks

Posted by stephen ify at April 30, 2004 02:08 PM