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IRIVER Clix (2 GB) Digital Media PlayerTake your movies, photos, and music with you anywhere you go with the iRiver Clix digital music and video player. The massive 2 GB of...
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Take your movies, photos, and music with you anywhere you go with the iRiver Clix digital music and video player. The massive 2 GB of internal memory allows you to store thousands of songs and pictures, and with the intuitive touch screen interface, it’s always easy to browse through your media library. The iRiver Clix supports a variety of music and video formats including MP3, JPEG, WMA, ASF, and MPEG-4, so no matter what codec your media uses, you don’t have to worry about compatibility issues hindering your entertainment.
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Closest thing yet to iPod/iTunes/iTMS integration
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Pros: Small, 2.5 oz. light Bright, clear, colorful 2.2" screen Integrates w/WMP11 & MTV URGE
Cons: 5/8", thicker than iPod nano Video too tiny Req. WinXP SP1/2 Media Player10+
The Bottom Line:
Ignore peer pressure to pay more for less, and get this Windows-oriented digital audio player instead of an iPod.
When somebody has almost 80% market share, it's tempting to wonder why anyone else bothers to try to compete. of course, I could be talking about Apple's iPod and iTunes combo in the market for digital music, or I could be talking about the Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer combination in the market for desktop OS/browser. So it was only a matter of time before Microsoft's braintrust, in this case working in close conjunction with iRiver's Korean product engineers, came close to duplicating the seemlessness of the iPod hardware plus iTunes software plus iTunes Music Store website user experience. When used with WMP 11 beta, which comes with the player on a CD, you get a quickly and easily navigable, tag-oriented database (supporting playlists, album & contributing artists, song & album titles, and genre names) of Music including album art support and on-the-fly queueing and playlisting, the ability to view jpg pix and avi videos (320x240 @ 15 frames per sec.), and to play the surprisingly decent FM Radio (w/auto presets) and FlashLite (v1.1 or v2.0) games. Throw in the direct audio recording and manual text/folder browsing, along with a programmable alarm clock/timer & EQ/sound enhancement settings, and you have both feature parity/superiority to the iPod and an excellent out-of-box experience compared to most other MP3/OGG/WMA/Protected WMA-JanusDRM devices. Excellent!
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