e.Digital Corporation (fka EDIG)

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c0in
Newly Minted Apprentice
Posts: 78 Posted: 2002-06-15 20:06

www.hotmp3gear.com says:

"Format Supported: MP3 (30 to 320 Kbps - CBR and VBR) Reading MP3 VBR (30 to 160 kbps) Real-time encoding Photo Carousel to display image files MPEG4 playing (CIF format - 352x288 pixels, 30 frames/sec., MP3 sound track - VHS Quality)"

so will it be able to play AVI and Ogg media files ?!?!

c0in.

[ This message was edited by c0in on 2002-06-15 20:21 ]


whalersd27
Newly Minted Apprentice
Posts: 2 Posted: 2002-06-18 20:34

could't archos just develop a low cost portable cd device that had a divx decoder chip?. That way you just burn a divx movie to cd-r and you have a handy player for your tv. Don't get me wrong though the idea of a mini player is cool too

[ This message was edited by whalersd27 on 2002-06-18 20:30 ]


Speed72
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Posts: 15 Posted: 2002-07-11 19:24

hi guys..

It´s a cool idea... but it has no vision of the market!!!

Ok! great camera! But it could be much more than that!!!

Imagine a Setopbox, whit this chip in it (capable of READING a full scale Divz), forget the HD and put a CD-RW in it, add a DVD-(s)vcd capabilitie a a TV-tunner and......VOILA!!!!!

The new Digital-recorder for the home user!!!!!

Easy!! and very, very marketable!!!!!

Note: the Divx encoding could be at this resolution... more time on a cd....

You guys at archos don´t need to thank me... ))) just do-it!

SpeeD


Charbax
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Posts: 94 Posted: 2002-07-30 01:26

Speed, sure... standalone divx cd-player with tv-output would be nice..

ok now I'm hearing the thing is just about to be released... !!! FINALLY !!! . . . according to the support pages on archos.com (http://www.archos.com/us/support/tech_jbmm.html), the product page on archos.com (saying August 12th as shipping date), according to the yahoo group for JBMM-fanatics (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/archosmultimedia/)

(I have been looking alot forward to this JBMM all the way back since I first heard about it in december 2001)


OK, NOW, the latest info and press releases from DivX.com and Texas Instruments inform that the hardware that is inside the JBMM will be able to playback DivX video at larger than 352x288 resolution (through code-optimizations, which I believe the people at DivXNetworks and TI.com and Archos.com are hardly working on), full-resolution DivX-playback support is even menchened in the press releases!

So hold on to your hats. In September, a firmware update will be released to enable ones 290gram portable Archos JBMM to playback DivX video at full resolution! And probably also with all the newest DivX 5.02 mpeg-4 features (bi-directionnal, psychovisual, 2-pass..)


So hold on to your hats once more, This 400$ gadget is gonna be the first ever standalone DivX player, it will playback all the DivX movies that you have allready downloaded (you just need to transfer them to the JBMM using firewire/USB2 connector). Not only is it the first ever standalone and portable DivX player but it's also a DivX recorder (res of 352x288 full framerate encoded in real-time, hopefully even more thanks to optimizations to take advantage of Texas Instruments latest DSP processor to it's maximum).

The thing has PAL and NTSC tv-output, 4cm colour LCD, 5-houre battery life for video-playback (10houre battery for audio-only and picture slideshow) on it's Li-Ion rechargeable battery, the whole thing weigths just 290grams, fits in the pocket. It has smartmedia/compactflash reader, DVR-recorder and camera modules (for video and still photos with flash), the thing has a 20GB harddrive (you can if you want to pay upgrade to a 40GB harddrive instead)... blah blah blah blah...


I made a website here: http://storerobert.dk/AJBMM/

It shouldn't be long now for the first real good reviews of it to come on reliable hardware review websites, I have a feeling it will have been worth the wait.. and I don't really think we are gonna see any serious competitors (sony, panasonic, canon, casio, microsoft, sonicblue, apple)... or anyone come with anything like it for some time, even if those huge companies suddently really badly want to make such, it's gonna be difficult for any competition to copy. It seems to have taken the Archos engineers over a year to design and make this thing work, and I'm sure they are going to hold one to their secret, if it appears the design is a success.. and maybe they have patents now or something... though this knowledge could be bought away, and then lots of more things can happen..


Piper
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Posts: 81 Posted: 2002-07-31 16:19

This is definately interesting, though I wonder about the DivX support and it's ability to output files at higher resolutions. The Bloxx box looks particularly interesting, though it's not as portable. A simple device which just played back DivX movies with a USB 2 or firewire interface would be ideal.

A cheap alternative to these devices is all the various CD-R based portable mp3 and VCD players - do a search on ebay. The output quality is probably comparable to the Archos. The price of these is also far less as well - typically under $100 US.

Just my 2 cents.


http://forums.divx.com/viewtopic.php?topic=22291&forum=4