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PortalPlayer Photo Edition Platform

Tuesday December 16, 2003 9:27 am PST by Arnold Kim
eeTimes reports that PortalPlayer Inc will be launching a new "Photo Edition" of its media platform which will help companies develop new portable media devices aimed at supporting photo/video content.



PortalPlayer currently enjoys a large marketshare with their current music-player based platform which is used as the basis of 80% of the current audio players on the market -- including Apple.



The new Personal Media Platform, Photo Edition, offers JPEG, motion JPEG playback with music soundtrack. Additional features include TV out, color display, USB 2.0, Firewire and Ethernet support.



Although there is no guarantee that Apple would utilize the updated reference platform, The Register speculates that it could pave the way to a "Picture iPod".

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Gimzotoy
107 months ago
No mention of Bluetooth support. That seems like it would provide more interesting possibilities than a simple photo viewer. Although both would be better! Good news, in any case...
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AirUncleP
107 months ago
Sounds like iPod gen. 4 is in the works. I give it a year though.
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wPod
107 months ago
boo. . . who needs pictures taking up space and color screens taking up battery power? iPod should be the same iPod . . . maybe there should be a vPod for pictures and video
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swissmann
107 months ago

Originally posted by wPod
boo. . . who needs pictures taking up space and color screens taking up battery power? iPod should be the same iPod . . . maybe there should be a vPod for pictures and video


If someone had both pods and were plugged into them 24/7 they would be plugged into an apple produced IV. For some junkies true life blood. :)

I'll wait to buy any pod if it is more like a PDA or it is
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coumerelli
107 months ago
it's going to happen some day...don't know when, could be a couple of years yet. But the pieces are slowly, but (very) surely coming together...just wait.
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kiwi
107 months ago
On my Gen 1 Archos multimedia. Records, jpeg, avi and mp3 too. Now they're at Gen 3.
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the_mole1314
107 months ago
I doubt that the iPod will ever be able to show pictures on it's screen. It's just a nich market for something like that. It's technology for technology's sake. Now, if those pictures were ablum art, it would complement and help the iPod sell.
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usingmac
107 months ago
Umm.. What is to stop apple from plugging an ISite on top of the Ipod and having a camcorder. Now you hav a camera, camcorder for video.

And the price area is perfect. 699 for a digital camcorder...... oh yah.....
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ennerseed
107 months ago
I hope mpg4 is going to be included... motion jpg is "not" all that. Otherwise I think this is great news, and a great thing to add to the iPod. While some people think the iPod should stay as a digital music player and nothing else, I believe that the future is laid within the convergency of our digital devices (I really don't have enough frickin pockets, and people laugh at my my man purse). -now can we get some sort of input please.


-it a european carryall, dammit.
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ennerseed
107 months ago

Originally posted by usingmac
Umm.. What is to stop apple from plugging an ISite on top of the Ipod and having a camcorder. Now you hav a camera, camcorder for video.

And the price area is perfect. 699 for a digital camcorder...... oh yah.....


NO JOKE! WTF
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