Linux portable media player has Windows Media Center GUI

heystoopid used our news submit to tell us "Whilst browsing at another website "majorgeeks.com" they have an interesting software updates news and reviews and other oddities, so for those who like a new all around type media player powered by linux has harddrives of 30 gig plus and the unit comes in 2 screen sizes. The makers Zupera, claim a battery life of 8 hours for music and 4 hours for video, a built in cf card reader to download photos from a digital camera.  So I, thought the readers of this site would like to see this item."

The 30GB
Zupera AV-EL5.6 and AV-EL7 are the ultimate lightweight, high-capacity
handheld AV media players. Our brilliant colour 5.6" TFT LCD (model:
AV-EL5.6) or 7" TFT LCD (AV-EL7) provides a satisfying viewing experience
and ensures ease-of-use with friendly screen icon interfaces. Ported with
embedded Linux Operating System, friendly screen icon interfaces include:
Mobile Theatre, Music Centre, Set-up (as to select preference for optimal
usage), Photo Album, and My Files. Power use can be regulated and
configured for long lasting performance, such as: screen brightness &
contrast; more than four hours of Audio/Video playtime (two long play
feature movies), and eight hours of audio playtime. It also supports
legacy MP3 playback and JPEG and TIFF image still image files.

You
can download movies, audio files, photographs, and store files directly
from a PC or Macintosh computer through the fast USB 2.0
interface.

Uploading still .JPEG format
photographs into EL5.6 or EL7 is easy by fast USB 2.0 computer connection
or Compact Flash (CF) memory card; a built-in Compact Flash card reader
for transferring photos directly from digital cameras.

Utilizing
the Windows Media Centre Edition interface, AV-EL5.6 and AV-EL7 uses
Microsoft's implementation of MPEG-4.

Zupera is known within the
industry as a Microsoft Embedded Partner and manufacturer of handheld
computing devices.

I guess what catches my eye too is the fact that we
have a Microsoft Embedded partner using a Windows Media Center interface,
Microsoft's implementation of MPEG4, and yet it has Linux for an OS.
Kinda unique. Unfortunately, the Zupera site was down, or at least quite
slow at the time of this article and I was unable to provide a screenshot
of what it looks like. Here is a link to the page in case it comes up again later and they
have a shot there.

Source: XTV world

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