Archive for June, 2006

Take MP4 Music Videos With You!

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The best online source for Music Videos can be found at Net Movies Online.

Here Are Top Advantages of Net Movies Online:

* Access to unlimited free MP4 music videos
* Unlimited MP4 TV show downloads
* Unlimited MP4 movie downloads
* Unlimited MP4 transfers to MP4 players
* MP3 and MP4 music downloads
* Free MP4 video downloads to PSP
* Free MP4 converter software
* No per MP4 download fees or extra MP4 software to buy
* Unlimited free MP4 videos
* MP4 game downloads and emulators for PSP
* Lifetime-Membership of unlimited free MP4 downloads
* Powerful PSP downloads software

As the Sony PSP and the Apple iPod storms the market we are witnessing a new way in which songs are heard, movies are seen and games are played. MP4 music videos have also been a huge hit. Now in your handheld PSP or iPod not only would you get to listen to the songs, you actually get to see the videos. This is going to revolutionize the music industry.

MP4 music videos are available from a number of websites on the internet where they charge you a small fee for the download. Now this fee can be either on pay-per-view basis or it can be a monthly subscription where you need to pay a fixed sum and you can download whatever you want for a month. There are a few sites which also provide you with a lifetime membership. Such sites are a great bargain and once you become a member you can download as much stuff as you want at no extra cost.

However, before you enroll for any such site make sure they come with a money-back guarantee. That way you can check their database and the kind of speeds they have as downloading MP4 music videos would mean you will be downloading heavy files and download speed would be crucial. If you are not satisfied with one website then you can exercise the money back option and that way you can shift to a new website.

With the ability to download MP4 music videos you now can watch your choicest videos anytime you want, many times over. So if you are on your way to office and you don’t have much to do on your way just plug in those headphones and turn the music on. And you don’t have to wait in front of your TV to catch the latest video, you can just download it form the net and play it on your handheld device.

The handheld gadgets from Sony and Apple have been great in the kind of image quality they have. And with such ease with which one can download MP4 music videos these days things are going through a sea change. MP4 music videos are sure going to change the way you listened to music.

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GSM phone supports MP3, MP4 players

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Taiwan – The Apollo from Access Microsystems Corp. is a GSM phone that supports A/V functions for MP3 players, MPEG-4 players and recorders. Running on GSM 900MHz and GPRS 1800MHz, the GSM phone features 64 polyphonic ring tones, handwriting image, USB interface, and EMS, SMS, MMS and STK sending function. 

The Apollo has a built-in organizer, calendar, clock, calculator and task scheduler. The candy bar-type phone has a simple PDA, touch panel, digital video recorder, 2.2in TFT LCD, 64MB built-in memory and 64MB extended memory.

The Apollo comes with a 1.3-megapixel CMOS camera with 4x digital zoom and 176×220pixel resolution.

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Nero
has released a free reference quality MPEG-4 audio codec (decoding and encoding), featuring 2-pass AAC encoding. The command line tool features a decoder which will convert a MPEG-4/3GPP file and output a WAV file in PCM format, and a encoder which does the opposite.

The details for the codec:

  • Compression Ratios ranging from ultra high (58 CDs fit on one!) to High-End Audio (2.5:1), for absolutely perfect audiophile encodings
  • Crystal Clear, Award Winning Sound Quality at every compression ratio and bit rate!
  • Support for Embedded Album Art (Covers, Booklets, Lyrics!)
  • Store Entire Audio Album in a Single .mp4 File with all the Features of an Audio CD embedded inside, but at a fraction of the space!
  • Reference Quality MPEG-4 Audio Codec
  • Fully Compatible with the Latest Version of the State-of-the-art MPEG-4 Audio Standard (LC-AAC, HE-AAC and HE-AAC v2)

Learn More About Nero 7 Enhanced

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Vosonic VP8360 PVP Review

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VP8360, a powerful multimedia viewer, not only inherits the professional features of VP8350, but also improves the screen size and storage capacity. 3.6” TFT LCD and 2.5” HD capacity (40~120GB) give you more room and fun to play. 

Support Upgradable 2.5” hard drive
VP8360 has infinite memory & storage expansion configuration with internal 2.5” Hard Disk (40~120GB). You can save all the data: music, photo, video and documents into it as supper portable storage device. 

Easy to replace the Li-ion battery (NP-100 Compatible)
VP8360 is compatible with standard Fujifilm rechargeable battery model: NP-100 which can be easily got an extra one on the digital shop. It is also very convenient to replace it due to the battery compartment design. 

Comes with FREE MAGIX Media Suite
VP8360 comes with MAGIX Media Suite which can help you to convert the files which can’t be played directly to the supported formats. This program, developed by MAGIX (www.magix.com), has a simple interface which you can use it to convert, edit, archives & burns. This suite includes MAGIX Home Photo Wizard, MAGIX Movies on CD & DVD, MAGIX MP3 Maker 

Multi-cards Reader/Writer
VP8360 supports all memory cards such as Compactflash, IBM Microdrive, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, Secure Digital, MultiMediaCard and 4 other formats, Mini-SD, RS-MMC, MS Duo and MS Pro Duo with a adapter (not supplied). It uses fast USB 2.0 interface for file transfer to your PC. Connecting the VP8360 to your PC, it works as hard drive enclosure and multi card reader/writer. 

High speed data back up from memory cards
VP8360 supports to copy files from memory cards to the internal hard drive (No need PC). The backup function allows you to transfer the data from your cards to the HDD anytime, anywhere during your trip. No need to carry a notebook or several cards any more. 

Video Player
VP8360 is your personal move theater and you can view the movies anytime and anywhere. TV out function even let you connect the device to TV and share the movie and photo on TV with your friends.

  • Play Motion-JPEG in AVI and MOV, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 and Xvid file format.
  • Quickly fast forward, rewind and pause when watching your video. 

Audio Player
VP8360 let you access your music library on the go. The shuffle, repeat and EQ functions are available. Set Music as “play in background”, you can view the picture and enjoy music at the same time.

  • Play MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC music files.
  • ID3 tag support
  • 7 bands mode EQ system (Normal, Bass, Classic, Dance, Live, Rock and Treble)
  • Shuffle play from a designated playlist
  • Support M3U playlist 

Photo Viewer
VP8360 works as photo album with huge memory. The zoom in/out, rotate and slide show functions make the photo display more interesting. Exif information support is useful for professional photographer.

  • Play JPEG, TIFF, BMP, GIF and RAW file format
  • Support slide show with music playback
  • Support Zoom in/out, rotate by 90 degree
  • Support EXIF data to display the shutter speed, flash condition, focal length, and other image information 

Voice RecorderVP8360 allows you record the audio from line-in or internal microphone. You can record lectures in classrooms or record music from another audio player.

  • Sample rate options between 16/24/32KHz
  • Recording in compressing MPEG AAC format 

Video Recorder
No need to use the traditional big video recorder at home anymore. The small VP8360 builds in video recording function. You can record the video from TV, DVD or satellite receiver.

  • Support TV?DVD…etc with AV-OUT jack
  • Recording resolution: QVGA 30fps, format: MPEG4, Sound: AAC 


FM Radio
Auto scanning and presetting FM radio in 18 channels let you search the radio channel conveniently. You can also record the broadcast show or music via the recording function. 

Play Games: Matrix, View Text file, Direct printing support
The games: Matrix playing and text reading function completes the entertainment from VP8360. It supports text files in 9 different languages as a E-book. You can while away your free time enjoying the fun from games and reading e-book. Further more, VP8360 has Direct printing function (PictBridge Compliant). It lets you connect to printer to print out your pictures without PC.

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Users have reported issues playing back some MP4 that are encoded using QuickTime with high quality in iTunes 6.0.4.

One reader writes:

“I have discovered since ‘upgrading’ to iTunes v6.0.4 that about 30 songs in my library won’t play anymore. Specifically they are songs that I used Quicktime to reencode from a quicktime-associated .mov file to an AAC formatted .m4a file. I used Quicktime because it has more elaborate (read better) quality controls than the more rudimentary settings deployed by iTunes. Unfortunately now, my higher-quality recompressed files will not play in iTunes because something changed in this last release that breaks compatibility.

“To prove my suspicions to myself, I was able to reproduce the same problem on both a G4 and G5 iMac, so it’s not a hardware related issue.. it is software-related. Further, I didn’t any longer have iTunes v6.0.3 because I let Apple’s Software Update install v6.0.4, so I dug around and found a copy of iTunes v4.8.. Not to my surprise, iTunes v4.8 played both the original Quicktime .mov files and the AAC recompressed .m4a files fine — so then just be sure I ran the same files again through iTunes v6.0.4.. no dice.

“The original Quicktime .mov files will play (however, since iTunes uses Quicktime layers to decode and playback the files, it loses the ability to support sound EQ, visualizers, and 3rd party sound EQ software. The very reason I wanted to reencode the files to a non-Quicktime format in the first place).

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