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HandHeld Entertainment ZVUE portable media player
Jasper Huitink : October 12th 2005 - 00:17 CET
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 HandHeld Entertainment ZVUE portable media player : HandHeld Entertainment today announced its next generation ZVUE, as well as plans for an entire family of ZVUE portable media players, products the company believes will raise the bar for future digital video/audio/photo media players. "The next generation ZVUE is our next step in creating a complete product family of personal media players that everyone can easily afford and use," said Jeff Oscodar, president and chief executive officer of HandHeld Entertainment. "While other companies are making expensive complicated products, we are continuing to make products that are affordable and easy to use by everyone."
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 HandHeld PMP - Video & audio content
The support of Microsoft's DRM will allow all ZVUE users to download video and audio content from the ZVUE download site at http://www.zvue.com/downloads/ this site will be kept up to date and will get new downloads every month, as well as at hundreds of online locations, such as Walmart.com, Rhapsody and Yahoo! Music, among others. As a result, HandHeld Entertainment will be the first company in the world to deliver a Windows DRM-enabled portable media player at less than $200.
HandHeld Entertainment ZVUE - WMV & WMA
With its manufacturer's suggested retail price slated to be between $149 and $199, the upcoming next generation ZVUE will feature on-board flash memory, a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, and be compatible with Windows Media Video (WMV) and Windows Media Audio (WMA) through the use of Microsoft's secure Digital Rights Management (DRM) software.
ZVUE Portable Media Player - Video Ipod
"Our ZVUE product family (the current ZVUE, the next generation ZVUE and beyond) will provide our customers with easy access to great music and video content on both our site and all over the Internet," Oscodar said. "By supporting industry standard security software and developing our own site, our customers can start enjoying digital video and music right out of the box. We've also seen significant interest from Hollywood because of the security that our products provide and because our products are so affordable. Since price is still a concern for most young consumers, you can be sure that when the next generation ZVUE hits store shelves, it will still cost a lot less than any potential video-iPod."
HandHeld ZVUE - Availability
HandHeld Entertainment announced its first ZVUE in mid-2003 with a $99 price point and shipped its first units before Christmas 2003. Version 1.1 is currently available online and in more than 1,500 retailers throughout the United States, including selected Wal-Mart stores and Discovery Channel Store locations nationwide.
HandHeld Portable Media Player - On board storage function
HandHeld Entertainment's next generation ZVUE will be its first portable media player to sport on-board storage functionality. The initial ZVUEs (versions 1.0 and 1.1) solely utilized SD/MMC flash memory cards, roughly the size of a postage stamp, for storing music, videos and digital photos. The next generation ZVUE will also support SD/MMC flash memory cards.
About HandHeld Entertainment
HandHeld Entertainment is the world's first portable digital entertainment company to offer mass-market portable media players at mass-market prices via mass-market distribution at more than 1,500 retail locations across the United States. ZVUE users can download thousands of free media titles. For more information, visit the website or call us.
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