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iRiver Fires Back at Video iPod with U10 Player Bill Dyszel - PC Magazine
Thu Oct 20, 1:37 PM ET
Scarcely a week after Apple Computer Inc. launched a new video-enabled iPod with much ado, iRiver has responded by announcing a video-equipped player dubbed the U10.
Like the iPod, the new device allows you to listen to music or view specially formatted videos on a small built-in screen.
However, the flash-based U10 only offers 1GB of storage and a 2.2-inch screen, which makes the device considerably more portable but somewhat tougher to read than the latest iPod.
iRiver adheres to Microsoft Corp.'s PlaysforSure specification, which makes it compatible with subscription-based music services such as Rhapsody to Go, Napster to Go and Yahoo Music Unlimited, which offer unlimited listening for a fixed monthly fee.
The U10 also boasts a user interface based on Macromedia Flash, and the unit plays specially designed Flash-based games and other media.
Flash is gaining growing acceptance as a format for streaming video and animation, a fact which may give the U10 access to types of material that few other media players can currently manage. It also allows users to control the unit by pressing areas on the screen rather than pushing buttons.
Making the display do double duty as a user interface has allowed iRiver to shrink the U10 to only 2.7 by 1.8 inches in size, less than half the size of the iPod. How easily customers will decipher the U10 user interface remains an open question, but iRiver is participating in Microsoft's recent initiative to make music players more intuitive to consumers, which should give the U10 owners a pleasing "out of box" experience.
U10 Video Player was just introduced
U10Videoplayer.com
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U10.Us
U10Video.com
iRiver Fires Back at Video iPod with U10 Player Bill Dyszel - PC Magazine
Thu Oct 20, 1:37 PM ET
Scarcely a week after Apple Computer Inc. launched a new video-enabled iPod with much ado, iRiver has responded by announcing a video-equipped player dubbed the U10.
Like the iPod, the new device allows you to listen to music or view specially formatted videos on a small built-in screen.
However, the flash-based U10 only offers 1GB of storage and a 2.2-inch screen, which makes the device considerably more portable but somewhat tougher to read than the latest iPod.
iRiver adheres to Microsoft Corp.'s PlaysforSure specification, which makes it compatible with subscription-based music services such as Rhapsody to Go, Napster to Go and Yahoo Music Unlimited, which offer unlimited listening for a fixed monthly fee.
The U10 also boasts a user interface based on Macromedia Flash, and the unit plays specially designed Flash-based games and other media.
Flash is gaining growing acceptance as a format for streaming video and animation, a fact which may give the U10 access to types of material that few other media players can currently manage. It also allows users to control the unit by pressing areas on the screen rather than pushing buttons.
Making the display do double duty as a user interface has allowed iRiver to shrink the U10 to only 2.7 by 1.8 inches in size, less than half the size of the iPod. How easily customers will decipher the U10 user interface remains an open question, but iRiver is participating in Microsoft's recent initiative to make music players more intuitive to consumers, which should give the U10 owners a pleasing "out of box" experience.
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