CeBIT 2002 Part 1 - A/V Devices & More
by Tillmann Steinbrecher on March 18, 2002 12:00 PM EST- Posted in
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Going MPEG4
When it comes to video on portable devices, MPEG4 is the thing of the future - the products presented on CeBIT proved this. A very interesting product was shown by a little known company called Archos: A portable MPEG4 video player with integrated 10GB HD.
Detailed specs can be found
here on Archos' website. The Jukebox Multimedia's display
isn't that great (very angle-dependant); however Archos had
a TV connected to it - and the quality of the TV out is amazing.
There were no visible compression artefacts, and the image
was very crisp. When paying very much attention, one could
however notice that the playback sometimes wasn't perfectly
smooth. In addition to MPEG4 video, the Jukebox can also play
MP3, and display JPEG and BMP images. In addition, it acts
as an external USB hard drive.
The question many of you will be asking now is: Does it play
DivX? Archos couldn't answer this question; the only info
provided was that it plays MPEG4 in CIF format - 352x288 pixels.
Our guess is that it won't play DivX 3.X content; however
it might be possible to encode video using DivX 5 and/or DivX
4 in a way that it is compatible with the Jukebox. This remains
to be seen once the unit makes it on the desks of the reviewers.
The Jukebox Multimedia should be available already in April.
Let's just hope that it will really appear on the market,
and that the MPAA or similar organizations won't find a way
to put legal or financial pressure on Archos. According to
Archos, this has not happened yet, but they indeed fear it.
MPEG4 for the PDA
As we've already recently seen at IDF, ASUS has made their intentions clear for entering the PDA market. At CeBIT they presented a couple of Windows-based PDAs. The interesting thing about the PDA shown here is that it features video playback in great quality.
Note that the dark area on the left side of
the display is not a fault of the PDA, but some dust on
our camera's lens. The display is very sharp and bright.
It is likely that in the future, we'll see more PDAs with
video playback features, and even 3D features - a very interesting
3D/video core for PDAs is coming up as you're about to see...
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