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Creative has just launched Creative Xmod, a device that enhances the playback quality for MP3, WMA, iTunes or AAC songs to beyond the original CD quality. It’s based on the Creative’s X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity audio platform which is known for improving sound quality. The Creative Xmod is a candy bar sized device that connects between speakers or headphones. You can also connect it to a PC, Mac, iPod, Creative ZEN or any other MP3 player to improve listening experience. It basically converts the acoustics to the X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity standard.

The Creative Xmod improves all the frequencies, i.e. low, mids and highs to deliver richer sound with extended bass. The best thing about Creative Xmod is that you don’t need to re-purchase the music in higher format. The device is potent enough to remove all the sound impurities at first hand. X-Fi Xtreme fidelity is based on two basic functions, X-Fi Crystalizer and X-Fi CMSS-3D. The X-Fi Crystalizer enhances MP3 music a lot by identifying those parts of the track that got damaged during compression. On the other hand the X-Fi CMSS-3D generates a virtual surround sound effect through speakers or headphones like the Creative Labs Aurvana Live! headband model. The X-Fi CMSS-3D enhances the audio in a way that the listener feels surrounded by a multi-channel Hi-Fi home theatre system.

Sim Wong Hoo, chairman and CEO of Creative said, “There are more than 100 million people who listen to MP3, WMA or AAC music on their PCs, Macs or iPod or ZEN players, but the quality of these compressed music are highly compromised. The Creative Xmod enables them to listen to their music with audio that sounds even better than CDs. Now with Creative Xmod, all your music is instantly upconverted to Xtreme Fidelity standard in realtime through a simple and compact device.”

V-Sport is the latest PMP launched by the popular media player maker Visual Land. It’s been aimed at recreational music enthusiasts and features a crystal clear display with all the functional buttons on the sides. It is the perfect device to use while travelling or sporting. The V-sport media player is a wallet friendly gadget. It is very compact and can be slipped into the pocket or purse easily. The overall weight is also very small and it takes no special effort to carry it along for a whole day.

The V-sport offers great functionality. It is compatible with variety of files including audio, video and image files. In fact this extensive level of file compatibility is one of the major selling points. You can watch FLV, AVI, RM, RMVB, DivX and Xvid videos on its 3.5 inch colour LCD. Besides this, you can also play MP3, WMA, RA, OGG, FLAC, AAC and WAV audio tracks and view JPG, GIF and BMP images on V-sport media player. Not even the Archos 7 Internet Media Tablet 320GB can top this kind of file compatibility. The Visual Land device also sports a built in high quality speaker and comes with complete set of accessories that helps in charging the device and enjoying the content via earbuds.

The battery performance is excellent as well. You can enjoy long hours of video as well as audio playback on a single charge. Additional goodies include a TV out port, built-in FM radio, integrated voice recorder, TXT books reader, internal flash storage (4GB or 8GB) plus microSD slot to support external storage up to 16GB.

Cowon D2 from the Korean electronics manufacturer is a small and tiny digital media player that is so diminutive that you can hold it in your hand without letting others to see it. It boasts perfection in video and acoustics as well as the ultra-compact form factor. It features a 24 bit razor sharp LCD touch screen that s capable of displaying 16 million colours. An easy to hold stylus is also provided that makes it easy to navigate through the digital entertainment domain.

Cowon D2 has got all the necessary functions and tools. Right from the battery run-time to customizable options, everything is simple perfect and satisfying. The Cowon iAudio D2 offers a 5 band EQ, a specialised low-end bass booster and on top of this it also features an MP enhance that compensate for the typical losses you experience while playing ordinary MP3 player. The battery backup too is very impressive. It takes only two and a half hours to fully charge the device to get a whooping music playback for 52 hours and 10 hours of movie playback. That means you can enjoy the complete Matrix Trilogy on a single charge.

As far as storage capacity is concerned the Cowon D2 has got enough space to hold large amount of digital media. It comes with a built in 4GB memory and also sports an SD card slot to offer additional storage.

OrlSoft Music Manager or OSMPX is a multi-purpose audio file manager that can be used for managing and organising music files efficiently. You can see it as a good alternative to the ubiquitous Apple iTunes that is mandatory for the Apple iPod nano 8 GB, and every other iPod. The OSMPX programme can handle variety of audio files and can encode, decode and re-encode them. It supports MPEG-1 Layer III (MP3), MPEG-4 AAC (MP4/M4A), Musepack (MPC), Windows Media Audio (WMA), Ogg Vorbis (OGG), Monkey’s Audio (APE), FLAC, WavPack (WV), PCM WAV (WAV, PCM), m3u playlists and cue sheets.

The OrlSoft Music Manager is easy to use and offers loads of tools to manage the music files. It offers eight compression formats and works seamlessly with portable audio players and stored folders. The UI is also excellent. This application is fully customisable. You can add to the beauty of OrlSoft Music Manager by adding different themes and backgrounds. The application’s main window has got an explorer-style look. It fully supports drag n drop feature that makes it easy to transfer audio files. The most important feature of OSMPX is the Express Tag Editor which allows updating the most common tag fields of the selected file with one click.

The OrlSoft Music Manager is based on batch processing. You can select numerous files simultaneously and select the desired operation. Afterwards, you can take a break while the application is processing all the files.

Memorex has unveiled its first touch screen Portable Media Player (PMP) called TouchMP. It’s a stylish portable digital entertainer that offers easy to use functions and quality sound and video. The main attraction of the TouchMP is its intuitive touch screen that makes the UI very interesting and interactive.

The TouchMP sports a gigantic 8GB of memory that can hold thousands of songs, photos and videos. So, if you are seriously hunting for a great travel companion to enjoy and share digital files with, then the TouchMP is the ideal portable gadget. It has got a 2.8-inch QVGA colour touch screen LCD with a resolution of 320×240 pixels. It supports full-screen photo viewing and large album art. The user interface is totally customisable and you can shift from landscape to portrait mode and vice versa anytime you want. It is surprisingly well done for a company that is known for manufacturing USB sticks, memory cards, and external hard drives like the Memorex TravelDrive 2007 8GB. Furthermore, the TouchMP PMP can play WMV, MPEG-4 and AVI video files. For audio you can load it with MP3, WMA and WAV files and view JPEG images on it. A software is also supplied along with the base unit that can be used to convert other file formats to the one that the TouchMP supports.

Jessica Walton, Memorex global brand director commented, “The TouchMP digital media player puts entertainment and favourite memories at your fingertips, packing tremendous value into this little touch screen device. The Memorex TouchMP is a great way to store and share photos and videos when visiting friends and family, or to sit back and enjoy your own personal playlist. A custom user interface makes it easy to navigate and quickly enjoy media files no matter what type of content you are playing.”

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If you are looking for a personal media player that is not only solid, but affordable and handy as well, then you can settle for the Cowon 02. It is certainly not the most spectacular or showy PMP among the media players, and if you are looking for a stylish PMP then you will be disappointed. However, users can expect it to perform without a fuss and enjoy all that the player has to offer.

The Cowon O2 may not have style but it is compact, small in size and more than compensates for its lack of style. It measures around 4.7 by 2.9 inches in size weighs a little over 200gms. However, this is one PMP, which will be a little too big for you to carry around in your pocket without others taking note of it. It will sure make its presence felt. The Cowon O2 is certainly not big like the Cowon’s 380g Q5W.

The Cowon O2 has a 4.3 inch LCD touch screen with a resolution of 480 x 272. The Texas Da Vinci chipset allows for processing power and it is an extremely versatile and practical instrument for video watching. The Cowon O2 comes complete with a 16 or 32 GB onboard flash RAM which can be expanded further to 48 or 64 GB through the use of SDHC memory cards. These are some of the features that make the Cowon O2 a really versatile player.

In this PMP, you can execute a host of functions using the Windows Explorer. The audio support file is very good with MP3, AAC and WMV formats to boot. It has excellent music playback and uses many technologies from BBE Sound. This helps to create an illusion of 3 D sound. Users can look forward to sounds that are crispy and balanced with enhanced bass response. It has a good battery life and video playback feature that make up for all other lapses. Don’t expect to find WiFi or web enhanced features but the player is available at a reasonable price.

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The Cowon S9 is a marvellous portable media player. It features an elegant design and curved body, which feels good while holding the device in your hand. The Titanium/Black face also adds to its grace. The Cowon S9 offers a 3.3-inch AMOLED touch screen display that can produce 16 million colours at a resolution of 480x 272 pixels. The GUI (Graphical User Interface) sports an intuitive touch screen and easy to use menus. The Cowon S9 is so easy to use that you can get hold of it in just few hours.

This portable media player sounds good as well as renders excellent video. Its advanced video functionality supports transcoding-free playback of most of the DVD-quality MPEG-4 videos. For enhancing the sound effects the JetEffect 2.0 audio technology has been integrated with this PMP. To further improve and customize the stereo sound you can also use the improved EQ filter and BBE+ which offers upgraded BBE, Mach3Bass, 3D Surround and MP Enhance audio processing. The Cowon S9 can be used with AVI and WMV videos and also supports codecs for Xvid, SP/ASP and WMV9 SP/MP. On the audio part, it is fully compliant with MP3, WMA, FLAC, OGG, WAV and APE files. Additional goodies include video recorder with line in, photo viewer, text viewer, FM radio, calculator and flash player.

Cowon S9 also supports easy file transfer as it can be used in a Bluetooth 2.0(with A2DP) environment. It is available in 8GB and 16GB capacities and has an estimated battery run-time of 11 hours for video and 55 hours for audio.

If you are hunting for an eminent DJ player, which not only suits your style but also offers lots of exciting functions, then the Cortex HDC1000 is the best for you. It is one of the most proficient DJ players on the planet and is created by the Cortex, the company well known for its acoustic products.

Cortex HDC1000 DJ player not only plays the audio tracks, but also offers DJ professionals an opportunity to create their own remixes according to their needs. Moreover, the DJ player offers numerous upgrades over its predecessor the Cortex HDC-500. For instance, with the Cortex HDC1000, you can play MP3 files, CBR and VBR at any bitrate up to 320kbps. You can also connect your portable music player such as an Apple iPod or any other compatible player to it and play the songs directly. The two integrated USB 2.0 ports ensure that you get all your acoustic gear connected to the HDC1000 and via a USB hub you can connect and manage up to four USB devices (including external hard disk drives and CD/DVD ROMS) to it simultaneously. This DJ player has got easy to operate buttons, jog wheel and sliders that are positioned so intellectually that you can access any one or more simultaneously to add uncountable special effects to the track.

Cortex HDC1000 also hosts an intelligent database that can be used to search desired tracks on the basis of string, title, artist etc. You can also create playlist using applications like iTunes. Apart from this, the Cortex HDC1000 also offers all the standard features such as seamless loop, scratch effect, shuffle, cue and much more. It also equips a bright LCD to display the necessary information.