By Bill Levin

The new mp5 player. There has been a spate of digital media players that have hit the market in the past few years. The most popular have been Mp3 players and other digital media players that have been a big hit with young people. The IPod series from Apple have been the most successfully selling digital media players till date. They are capable of storing and playing back the popular Mp3 format of music and also video files of different formats.

There has never been a more popular format for digital music than the Mp3 format. It is the most preferred format for storing audio media and has been followed by the Mp4 audio and video format. Although the popular belief is otherwise, there is no such format as an Mp5 format. It is just a clever marketing gimmick used by digital media player manufacturers to promote their products which are named as Mp5 players.

Though an Mp5 player has few technological advancements to boast of when compared to other media players, the general public have been fooled into believing it to be some form of advanced digital media player that uses the latest in the Mp series of digital media format to store visual and audio media.

The built in DV cameras that most of these Mp5 players come with, lets you record videos in addition to just storing and playing them back. The other advantage secured by these gadgets is that they can transcode video formats back and forth from one format to the other. This allows a user to view any video in any format as well as enables the conversion of the video into popular formats such as Real media and other formats.

Most Mp5 players come with built in DV cameras which let you record media in addition to storing and playing it. Another cool feature incorporated by these gadgets is the ability to transcode and convert media into different formats. This allows you to play any kind of video no matter which format it has been encoded in. They come with huge expandable memories which are exclusive of their inbuilt memory. Most of them support SD cards and other variants of memory cards available in the market. So even if your iPod runs out of space you can always hope to store more on your Mp5 Player.

Most of these instruments have a huge in built memory, but also support external expandable memory using SD cards and other external storage devices. The most visible advantage is the large 2. 4 inch TFT display screen hat they sport, which offers crystal clear images and great clarity. The usual display systems in other digital media players are mostly grainy and of inferior resolution. The most gratifying advantage is that these gadgets come very cheap. When compared to the renowned brands, they are either similarly priced or less.

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