DIGITAL PLAYERS

iPod is a small portable music player. Users can transfer songs to their iPod with their computer, iTunes, and the iPod software.

iPod is a brand of portable media players that is designed and marketed by Apple and was launched on October 23 , 2001 . [1] Since October 2004, iPod sales have dominated the market for digital music players in the United States.

Devices in the iPod range are primarily digital music players, designed around a central click wheel — although the iPod shuffle has buttons only.

The full-sized model stores media on an internal hard drive , while the smaller iPod nano and iPod shuffle use flash memory.

Like many digital audio players , iPods can also serve as external data storage devices .

In addition to playing music, iPods with display screens can display calendars, contact information, and text files, and play a limited range of games.

Models introduced in 2004 include the ability to display photos and the fifth-generation iPod, introduced in 2005, can additionally play video files.

In January 2007, Apple announced the iPhone , combining the features of a video-capable iPod with integrated mobile phone and mobile internet capabilities.

Apple's iTunes software is used for transferring music (as well as photos, videos, games, contacts and calendars , for models that support those features).

As a free jukebox application, iTunes stores a comprehensive library of music on the user's computer and can play, burn , and rip music from a CD. It can also sync photos and videos.

Apple focused its development on the iPod's unique user interface and its ease of use, rather than on technical capability.

The iPod is currently the world's best-selling range of digital audio players and its worldwide mainstream adoption makes it one of the most popular consumer brands.

Some of Apple's design choices and proprietary actions have, however, led to criticism and legal battles.

I-Tunes is a media player, written by Apple Computer, for playing and organizing digital music, video files, and purchasing digital music files in the FairPlay digital rights management format.

The I-Tunes Music Store (also sometimes referred to simply as "iTunes" or "iTMS") is the component of iTunes through which users can purchase digital music files from within iTunes.

Mp3 Player - is a Hardware or software device for playing audio files encoded using MPEG1 layer 3 (mp3).

Mp3 Players are associated with downloading music from the internet. The device is smaller than a personal CD player so are very portable.

You will need a computer to download songs, but you don't necessarily need the internet. MP3 is just the name of a type of computer file.

A digital audio player (DAP) is a device that stores, organizes and plays digital music files.

It is more commonly referred to as an MP3 player (because of that format's ubiquity), but DAPs often play many additional file formats.

Some formats are proprietary, such as MP3, Windows Media Audio (WMA), and Advanced Audio Codec (AAC). Some of these formats also may incorporate digital rights management (DRM

An Mp4 player is amongst the latest gadgets available in the electronic market. This is in keeping with the upgraded version of Mp3 to Mp4.

Mp4 is fundamentally the global file extension for the official container format defined in the MPEG-4 standard (ISO 14496-14).

This is streamable and supports all kinds of multimedia content and advanced content like 2D and 3D animated graphics, etc.

The Mp4 player can be attached to the computer, laptop and television. This devise is also available with its own in built sound system.

Most of these players can also play the lower Mp versions. However it is most suited for the latest in the series.

One of the big advantages of MP4 technology is its interoperability. It is an open standard, implying it is license free.

Therefore, there already exist a number of different tools supporting it. These include Mac, Linux, PocketPC and of course Windows.

Though many people consider Mp4 to be a successor of Mp3, there is a difference between the two. Basically, Mp3 is one specific type of audio format and Mp4 is a container format.

However, as mentioned earlier an Mp4 player can play Mp3 files which as much clarity as the original players. ~ author Karishma Bajaj.

The PlayStation Portable (officially abbreviated as PSP ) is a handheld game console released and manufactured by Sony Computer Entertainment.

Its development was first announced during E³ 2003, and it was officially unveiled on May 11, 2004 at a Sony press conference before E³ 2004.

 The system was released in Japan on December 12, 2004, the United States and Canada on March 24, 2005 and in Europe and Australia on September 1, 2005 .

The PlayStation Portable has the ability to play video games, watch videos, listen to music, view images, as well as Internet browsing functionality.

A Podcast is a media file that is distributed by subscription (paid or unpaid) over the Internet using syndication feeds , for playback on mobile devices and personal computers.

[1] Like ' radio ', it can mean both the content and the method of syndication. The latter may also be termed podcasting . The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster .