Thomson's portable wizardry RCA Lyra RD2780.The RD2780 combines an audio player with a video player and funky screen, making it the ultimate in portable entertainment machines. Possibly. With a two-and-a-half inch, 20-gig hard disk and a 3.5-inch TFT LCD screen, the "RCA Lyra Audio Video Jukebox" can be hooked up to a PC or television--acting as a hard disk in the former case and a VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. in the latter. How cool is that?! You can squeeze up to 80 hours of TV or whatever else on the player, listen to MP3 and MP3Pro files, watch WMA (Windows Media Audio) An audio compression method from Microsoft. Known originally as MSAudio, this proprietary format competes with the MP3 and AAC methods. WMA encodes rapidly and is known to be especially effective at low bit rates. clips and, if you're feeling particularly boring, show your mates your latest JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. digipix of your holiday in Whistler. It'll take an incredible 100,000 images, so you can "entertain" them for, literally, millennia. The RD2780 has video and USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. 2.0 connections and a Compact Flash slot. Priced at $399.99. To be released in Japan in June. More info: www.thomson.net |
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