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Techtree.com – Jan 18, 2008
There are also widescreen video capture resolutions — 400×240 pixels and 640×384 pixels. With most people resorting to widescreen LCDs this video capture resolution option is great. The videos are DivX encoded — this results in compressed videos. A 4 minutes and 30 seconds 320×240 pixels video at 120 fps occupies 9. But its playback time is half which is still pretty decent. Whereas a 32 seconds 640×384 pixels video at 30 fps with audio takes 10 MB of space with DivX compression… Movies run smoothly on Viewty and feel much like the playback off a regular monitor. I tried running other formats on the phone but it instantly refused — all because the player is DivX certified. fficial DivX software can be obtained from the CD bundled in the phone-package. ; this also contains the file-format converter so you don’t have to go Web-hunting for it.
Kogan Technologies 7″ Digital Photo Frame
NEWS.com.au – Jan 17, 2008
When photos are selected they can take a long time to load depending on their resolution. Random transition effects are inserted in between photos with the best one being a black and white effect that washes photos with colour as it transitions. The redeeming feature of the Kogan is its DivX file-playing capability. Widescreen DivX-based TV shows and movies are played back splendidly which makes the Kogan a spiffy little bedside TV of sorts. It’ll also play VB files from DVDs but you’ll need a large capacity memory card or USB storage device to play them from. Surprisingly the built-in speaker is quite clear and more than acceptable for close-up listening. An AV output port for video and audio is present and a cable is supplied while its USB port will accommodate USB storage devices too.
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Digital Spy – Jan 19, 2008
Some newer models do have a single freeview tuner built in though as well as an analogue tuner. Purists on here would say these are not PVRs but in reality they do offer some of the same features such as pausing and rewinding live tv watching something from the beginning before it has finished recording watching something else (a previous recording or a DVD) while recording continues. Some models do have more advanced features such as the ability to play back DIVX files (movies downloaded from the internet) or to playback MP3 music files and JPG picture files. Many will even let you copy these to the hard disc allowing you to store all your music movies and photos as well as recordings on the one machine. These machines allow you to plug other devices into them (such as a VHS video recorder) to transfer old tapes to the hard disc or to DVD (although most shop bought prerecorded tapes will be copy protected and wont record). You can even connect a freeview set top box for freeview recording. Several manufacturers make these types of machines including Liteon Sony Panasonic Wharfedale Pioneer Tevion Samsung etc.