The second electronic device may be a portable electronic device, such as a digital media player, that includes a voice user interface.
The USB and DLNA enabled Digital Media Player supports playback of a variety of Internet music and video formats in addition to photos and e-books.
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Instead of a few silly pixels wasting your time with unrealistic demands, the EGGE is a low-maintenance digital media player that supports MP3, WMV, MPEG, and AVI formats.
Digital Media Player (DMP) and Digital Media Renderer (DMR) devices.
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In contrast to proprietary short distance wireless solutions, the joint standards-based solution enables easy interoperability between any digital media server device and any digital media player device, helping to create a seamless DLNA-Connected home environment.
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It has everything that critics and Nintendo fanboys said Apple would never have: a monstrous business that threatens to dominate portable gaming the way the iPod devoured the digital media player market.
Much as the iPod touch is billed primarily as a digital media player, the Movit mini is being billed primarily as a portable Skype phone, perhaps to avoid direct confrontation with Apple's iPod dominance.
The people who brought you Microsoft SQL Server and Surface a prototype touch-screen computer the size of a boulder could be about to bring you a smart phone based on the Zune digital media player.
The rub, though, is that you'll need a DLNA Digital Media Player (or Rederer) that supports MPEG2, and that just isn't as common as you might think -- as well as DTCP-IP support for copy protected content.
" Furthermore, the plaintiff claims that Apple willfully disabled embedded support for rival formats, and stated that it was "in possession of monopoly power in the portable digital media player market, the online music market and the online video market.
While both companies have common roots in the computing business, Apple under Mr. Jobs has built itself into a profit machine through a string of hit consumer electronics products, starting with the iPod digital media player, followed by the iPhone, plus the iPad earlier this year.
From keeping the waning iPod classic in the lineup to leaving the still-potent iPod touch untouched save for a blanching and price reduction, the venerable digital media player line seemed all but ignored at a time of year when Apple once primed the holiday pump for MP3 players.
While, as a digital media player, the Movit mini may not fare much better than other MP3 players Apple has stared down, it represents a new entry in a class of mobile computers free from carrier bonds that likely represent the future of the portable media player''s high end.
Granted, Google didn't seem to have many options: Apple, by far the dominant player in online digital-media sales, doesn't currently license its Fairplay DRM, and Microsoft is one of Google's biggest competitors.
He moved Apple beyond personal computers into the digital media device market with the iPod music player in 2001, the smartphone market in 2007 with the iPhone and the tablet market with the iPad in 2010.
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As a video processor module in a small mini-box, the new accessory is simply placed in-line at the output of any HDMI video source, such as a video game console, DVD or Blu-ray player, media player, or any digital broadcast.
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In an application with the U.S. Patent Office published in December 2007, Apple described a wireless system that would allow customers to place an order at a store using a wireless device such as a media player, a wireless personal digital assistant or a cellphone.
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Its iTune Music Store and the iPod digital music player are important strategic products for the company, as it has been touting digital media as part of a new lifestyle-driven marketing image.
The new gadget will come equipped with a camera and digital music player and could blunt some of the multi-media appeal of Apple's gadgets.
When you think about DXG (if the name even rings a faint bell), a few off-the-wall digicams could come to mind, but the company best known for kicking out digital imaging products is delving into the ever-popular portable media player realm with its Roadster DXG-521.
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In terms of the overall installed base, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) is the digital rights leader, mainly because the stuff is built into the Windows Media Player, which is included in every copy of Windows.
Surprise, surprise, Microsoft is using its new player in an effort to squeaze Real and make its own Windows Media format the standard for digital audio on the Web.
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