Alpine has recently released its latest 2-DIN receiver, the iXA-W407 Digital Media Station, which sports iPod/iPhone playback with a large 7-inch QVGA touchscreen display, a built-in Bluetooth connectivity, an AM/FM tuner and a high-speed USB input for optimal iPod/iPhone connection. The iXA-W407’s navigation functions are provided by the Alpine NVE-M300, which is a compact external drive installed in a hide-away location, such as behind the dash. Its OnPoint Advanced GPS Positioning simultaneously uses three technologies (satellite-linked GPS

Alpine’s latest iXA-W407 Digital Media Station supports iPod/iPhone playback (Sorry CD users, it won’t do CDs anymore) and sports a large 7″ QVGA touchscreen display along with integrated Bluetooth connectivity and other features.

The iXA-W407 is available as an all-in-one audio/video/navigation system package that includes the NVE-M300 GPS Navigation Drive. This all-in-one AVN package from Alpine will cost you a cool $1100. You can also connect USB devices and MTP-based MP3 players using the USB input.

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The Egoman iKaRa i600 portable media player offers more than meets the eye - it comes with a built-in karaoke feature to entertain your friends, much to their chagrin if you lack the vocal capability of being an entertainer. Just in case you're willing to stake your dignity and self-worth in public, the iKaRa i600 portable media player will also come with the following specifications :-

2.4" display at 320 x 240 resolution

OK Karaoke singing feature

Supports RM, RMVB, AVI, WMV, VOB, MOV

Seagate’s latest FreeAgent Theater+ HD network media player will spice up your living room increasing the maximum resolution for video to 1080p, with support for DTS and Dolby Digital audio. If you have some RJ45 cables, you can connect the FreeAgent Theater+ HD to your home network via Ethernet, where it will stream content from different computers over the local network.

The optional 802.11n Wi-Fi adapter makes it handy to go wireless, occupying one of the three available USB 2.0 ports. The remaining ports can be connected to portable hard

HP’s new DreamScreen 100 and 130 aren’t your usual digital picture frames, but they will function in pretty much the same way. They also happen to stream photos, music, play videos, connect to Pandora, and manage to handle social networking too.

The DreamScreen 100 sports a 10.2-inch screen and the 130 has a 13.3-inch screen. Both have 2GB of built-in storage and a flash card reader and USB for more room. You can load content through storage or via drag-and-drop software on the PC. It will stream audio and photos but not

It looks like Popcorn Hour's C-200 media streamer is making its way into end-users' hands, so prepare yourself for a flurry of reviews. Our friend Brent over at GeekTonic should be jumping into the fray soon, and has kicked things off with a preview. Yeah, the C-200 is bigger than its sibling A-100, but it brings so much to the table that we'd say Popcorn Hour has packed in just as much -- if not more -- goodness per cubic inch. With space available for a hard and/or Blu-ray drive, wired and wireless networking, and USB ports to round out the input connectivity,

Seagate is a name synonymous with quality hard drives, and their latest release, the FreeAgent Theater+ HD media player has something to do with hard drives as well. This device has room for a hard drive, where it will function as a next generation home theater solution that was specially designed to instantly and easily hook up your digital media library to your home entertainment system for seamless interaction, while ushering your living room into the 21st century instead of being laughed at by your mates each time they drop by.

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Viewsonic, a name more often associated with LCD displays and monitors, have unveiled a couple of portable media players known as the MovieBook VPD400 and VPD500. They will be made available for both Europe and the US, where the two models will come with HD playback through its video-out connector (720p resolution), a 800 x 480 resolution LCD display (the VPD400 will carry a 4.3" screen while the VPD500 has a more generous 5"), 8GB internal memory, a microSD memory card slot and a 1900mAh battery which is good for up

MP navi's maiden effort in the world of portable media players isn't anything to shout about, while you do get a 4.3" touchscreen display, it comes in a super slim chassis with support for a wide range of audio and video formats - pretty much like any other generic portable media player out there. At least it has above-average looks unlike other cheaper brands, but this looks set to be a South Korea-only device, which means you can pick it up for approximately $114 in that part of the world.

Freecom has released enough diverse disk-based products over the past few years to inspire hope that its latest attempt to bridge the network-attached storage and media streamer divide would succeed. Not the case, according to Register Hardware's review. File copies to the device were quick enough over USB, but once tethered on Ethernet got rather slow (10 minutes for a 1GB file, 36 minutes for 1,024 1MB files), and even worse over WiFi (14 and 44 minutes, respectively). So, that whole NAS aspect doesn't exactly work out. Neither does the streaming side, with an