The MP4 watch is a novel idea that has finally become reality. It is fashionable in design, for a Portable Media Player (PMP) device. Just plug the MP4 player watch into your computer's USB port to transfer music files and data. You can listen to Music, Watch Movies and Record Conversations wherever you go. All stored in your wrist, you can truly enjoy a portable high tech multimedia entertainment system on the go.
We’ve seen this “MP4 Watch” before...though it looked a little different. We noticed the original about a year ago, and then an update not so long after. Now here is the latest version of the wristwatch PMP—the stuff Chinese OEM dreams are made of. An $60, 4GB multimedia super MP4 Player watch, it can play back pictures (JPEG, BMP), music (MP3, WMA), and movies (MPEG4)...wait...what? This newest MP4 Watch doesn’t play sweet, modern MPEG4 compressed movies like its predecessors? No, actually it plays a file extension called MTV. And no, it has nothing to do with that MTV.
MTV or .mtv is an MPEG video derivative that manufacturers have implemented to avoid licensing fees associated with MPEG4. And just swapping the extension won’t do the trick—you have to send all your video through their conversion program.
So while this watch can read ebooks, record voice, and even display your song lyrics, the older iterations could at least handle the real codecs. What can we say? They sure don’t make them like they used to.
We also have reason to expect more innovative MP3 Watches. |
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