Portable Multimedia Player
Portable Multimedia Player (PMP) (engl.) is the portable multimedia player. Similar devices of the small sizes are equipped with the big displays which are usually occupying all front surface of the body and combine functions of several devices at once:
- audio-video player;
- prosmotorshchik of photos;
- fm-radio;
- dictophone;
- tv-tuner;
- gps-navigator.
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In most cases the device does not apply for mass character, its main objective — to satisfy requirements of a small amount of the people interested in the multimedia combine with a number of features.
History
The history PMP originates in the summer of far 2003 when the French firm Archos showed to the public the new portable AV300 player. The device had the big 3.8-inch display, 20 Gigabyte winchester and immodest weight in 350 grams. Let's note that one year later the company released new modification of PMP AV400 which differed in the improved design and the slot for the memory cards Compact Flash. It also became origin of a new class of portable devices.
At the beginning of the development PMP devices were based only based on the built-in hard drive with the large volume of memory, from here and these frightening digits in the column "mass of the device" appeared. Today technologies allow producers to use capacious modules a flash memory. They are cheaper, more reliable, more economic to the battery, and, of course, it is much easier.
Modern characteristics
Other feature of the modern PMP device is existence of the big touch display. It is not a just modern trend, touch displays save from hardware buttons, allowing the producer to use displays of the greatest possible diagonal. Actually, existence of the big screen — the main difference of PMP from a normal MP3 player, the portable media centers are expected viewing video content. At least, it was their initial task.
Today PMP smoothly begin "be crossed" to other type of portable devices, so-called Internet tablets (MID — multimedia internet device). As a result, in this anonymous class of hi-tech devices three main lines will be selected: big screen, large volume of memory (not less than 8 GB) and possibility of Internet connection (existence of the module WiFi and built-in Internet browser). Whether it was possible to dream of such devices about five years ago? But there is more to come, support of HD video will become the next stage of development of devices. Similar devices it is worth waiting in 2009, for example, for Microsoft Zune HD which recently flew on news feeds which official announcement is planned for fall of 2009.
As for a present situation, today's market offers about ten devices which belong to the formed segment of players. The most noticeable of them: Cowon Q5W, iriver SPINN, Samsung YP-P3, iPod touch Apple. The average price of devices is 9-10 thousand rubles. Nevertheless, the niche of expensive and extremely functional devices is replenished with new devices with noticeable regularity. And perhaps over time, the cost of similar devices will become "edible" for all. Earlier and notebooks were available to not everyone, but a year ago netbooks created revolution, having become mass products.
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