PMP Today is always up for new PMP brands. The iMux (or :Muz) brand has just launched three new devices: MU-959–is a 3-inch touchscreen PMP featuring the VibeTouch haptics technology. It’s a dual-core PMP that gives it gaming capabilities and should also be good enough to support multiple video codecs. It should be in the top-range among the three new iMuz PMPs coming in luxury brown, pink and black. MX1–a 1.5-inch budget PMP with up to 4GB of storage and an MSRP starting at $31. Compare the
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LaCie upgrades its LaCinema Rugged to LaCinema Rugged HD offering support for 1080p Full HD content in H.264, MKV, WMV9, and VC-1 video formats. The multimedia hard drive has 500GB capacity and USB 2.0 interface. It provides HDMI and composite video output and comes with a remote control. The LaCinema Rugged HD costs $349.99. It supports most media formats including the following: Video Codecs : MPEG-1, MPEG-2/HD, MPEG-4, XVID, H.264 HD, WMV9, VC-1 Video Format : MPG, AVI, MP4, MKV, W
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Ryan Paul at Ars Technica wrote this great overview of the argument . In short: HTML 5 includes a native tag so people don’t need to rely on Flash or other proprietary plug-ins to play video in pages. It’s currently only supported by the absolute newest versions of Firefox and Safari (including Mobile Safari), and Google will add support to Chrome shortly. Internet Explorer is unlikely to ever support it in a useful way. Opera has probably supported it since 1997, but nobody remembered to
