subject: Features of Portable Media Players [print this page] Features of Portable Media Players Features of Portable Media Players
The portable media players also known as PMP, is a consumer electronics device which is capable of storing and playing digital medias. More importantly digital audio players that can also display images and play videos are PMPs. Informatively, DAPs, the data is typically stored on a hard drive, microdrive, and flash memory. Several other types of electronic devices such as cellphones are sometimes known as portable media players because of their playback capabilities. Many companies are indulge in the production of portable media players now. Its highly important that the user should know the features and specifications of portable media players. Advance information lets the user to avail qualitative performance from the portable media players.
Portable media players are capable of playing digital audio, images, and video files. It is important to know that in few players, features of a personal organizer are emulated, and also support for games such as the iriver clix or the PlayStation Portable too added. Nearly all types of portable media players are compatible with the MP3 audio format, and many others support Windows Media Audio, Advanced Audio Coding, and WAV. Also audio files purchased from online stores or ripped from CDs may include Digital Rights Management copy protection, as supported by many modern players. Besides, few players are compatible with open-source formats like Ogg Vorbis and the Free Lossless Audio Codec, and each device has a bitrate limit on each compatible format. Such beneficial features and facts should be known by every portable media players user for enhancing the usages.
