Cameron reports us
that the iRiver company has unveiled a new MP3 player with a 20GB hard disk, the
iHP-120. What's special about the drive is that the player
supports the Ogg Vorbis audio format (up to 500Kbps).
On the iRiver website we can read
that the new MP3 player will not be the only player from the iRiver company that
will support Ogg Vorbis. The company will release new firmware versions for
other players too, enabling them to read Ogg Vorbis audio files:
 Applying the customers'
feedbacks and suggestions, iRiver released iHP-120 that supports OGG audio
format. This firmware improvement will not be implemented only on the
iHP-120, but also other products that are capable of supporting it through
firmware upgrade. Please refer to the chart below to determine
capabilities of each individual products that iRiver has
manufactured.
iRiver
iHP-120:
iRiver drops yet
another HDDMP3player on the market, the follow up to the acclaimed
iHP-100. This time the machine goes by the name iHP-120 and has a 20GB HDD
and supports the new upcoming music file format Ogg Vorbis.
iHP-120 is one of the first MP3players that supports the new
upcoming, and very popular, music file format Ogg Vorbis. Another new
feature on iHP-120 is the ability to plug-in an external mic, using the
players mic-in.
You now have the ability to encode MP3 files
directly in the player itself, or if you like you can record to a high
quality WAV file. Use the iHP-120's optical line-in and get those crisp
and ultra clear recordings, either by hooking up your player to your
portable CD player or your home sound system. The iHP-120 will give you
100% quality each time and of course you can set the bit rate on your
recordings just as you want it to
be. |
More information on which iRiver players can be upgraded with a new firmware
to enable to play Ogg Vorbis audio files can be found here.
More information on the new iRiver iHP-120 MP3 player can be found here.
Source: iRiver
