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  We’ve reviewed quite a few media players here in the past and despite them having a rich feature set, they are priced around Rs.10,000 range, making it somewhat pricey for many consumers. However, with the Asus O!Play mini you can enjoy HD videos without worrying about your budget. The O!Play mini cannot exactly be [...]

  Choices of media players have increased in India in the past few years but not many have been successful to break the sub-Rs.5k barrier. Asus today manages to do it with its newly announced O!Play Mini that not only shrinks itself in size but also price. For just Rs.3,500 (plus taxes) a user will [...]

  Asus has expanded its O!Play media player range with the new HD2 model. Asus touts the O!Play HD2 is the world’s first media player to feature support for USB 3.0 that will allow consumers to stream high-definition content at faster speeds. O!Play HD2’s uniqueness comes from the fact that it comes with a slot [...]

  Creative today has announced two new portable media players – Zen X-Fi Style and Zen Style for Indian consumers. Carrying on Creative’s patented X-Fi audio technology is X-Fi Style that brings the same excellent audio quality at a cheaper price point. It comes in capacities of 8/16/32GB and features 2.4-inch TFT display, video-out supporting [...]

  Samsung has strengthened its portable media player offering with the introduction of Galaxy Player 50 (YP-G50). The Galaxy Player 50 is not the same as previously leaked YP-MB2 but has decent specs for those looking for an Android-based PMP. The player runs on Android 2.1 OS and features a 3.2-inch touchscreen display, Wi-Fi 802.11n, [...]

  Joining the HD multimedia player fray are Netgear’s NeoTV devices – the 350 HD and 550 Ultimate HD. The new pair of NeoTVs will compete with the likes of WD TV and are able to play full HD content from USB storage devices, memory cards, media servers, Internet etc. Other common features include DLNA [...]

  We’ve seen Samsung’s YP-MB2 in a blurry leaked video before but check this picture out. It is by far the most clear picture of the device we’ve seen till date. As expected, the PMP is strikingly similar to Galaxy S but there’s no sight of a front facing camera or the proximity sensor. Another [...]

  TicToc (YP-S1) music player that was unveiled at the CES this year has been officially introduced in South Korea. The 12 gram TicToc player comes in trendy blue or pink colors and relies on the acceleration sensor to execute commands. User needs to press a button on the top and shake vertically to increase [...]

  Portable Media Players (PMPs) these days have converged to do a lot of things. However, companies like Cowon still produce a “true PMP” that concentrates only on the multimedia prowess and nothing else. The product we try out this time is Cowon’s V5 HD PMP.

  We already know a lot of things about YP-MB2 and now one new piece of information has trickled out from our source. He claims that YP-MB2 will be “more or less similar to South Korean version of Galaxy S (SHW-M110S).” We’re not sure if he claimed about the design but when going through the [...]

  Asus India has launched a new media player to take on Seagate’s FreeAgent Theater, WD’s TV Live and Amkette’s Flash TV. The Asus O!Play Air HDP-R3 HD media player is the latest addition in the O!Play family that adds the much needed wireless functionality in addition to playing most of the widely used multimedia [...]

  Cowon has released V5 HD PMP in its home market that comes with HD support. Scheduled to go on sale on first day of 2010, the PMP is capable decode H.264 and play on your HDTV via the integrated HDMI-out. The 197g player features a 4.8-inch touchscreen display with 16.7M color support (800×480), Cowon’s [...]

  Viewsonic’s latest PMP is now available in USA. The VPD400 MovieBook is a decent attempt at an affordable price. For $130, a user will get a media player capable of playing content up to 720p on its 4.3-inch 800×480 resolution display, variety of multimedia codec support, 8GB internal memory, expandable via microSD card slot [...]

  A poster at AVS forum leaked few images of what is claimed to be the successor of WD TV. The original media player from WD is a nice budget offering giving the goodness of full HD playback at under $100. Now, the second iteration adds some new features that makes the WD TV more [...]

  Another product revealed at the CES was Seagate’s FreeAgent Theater HD Media player that allows to play files directly from the external USB drive. The idea is pretty simple – just pop in a Seagate FreeAgent drive or any other USB external drive into the unit and play multimedia files on TV. It also [...]