IRiver

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iRiver (full name iRiver Limited), daughter company to ReignCom, is a consumer electronics developer founded in 1999 and is located in Seoul, Korea. It is most renowned for producing unique portable digital audio players (aka "MP3 players") and video players with more features than others on the market. Common features on iRiver products are driverless operation, FM tuner and recording capabilities. iRiver's first released model was the iMP-100, a portable CD player capable of decoding MP3 data files on CDs. The current product range of iHP-100 (now named H100) Players (100, 120 and 140) are capable of playing MP3, WMA, ASF, Ogg Vorbis, and WAV audio files and variable bitrates of these types (eg. anything in between the usual 64, 128, 256, 320). Text files are also supported on the 100 series. The H300 (320 and 340) series are able to play DivX, WMV, MPEG4 and AVI video files and are capable of displaying JPEG and BMP image files. Audio enthusiasts choose iRiver products over others (namely, iPods) due to their superior sound quality; iRiver is renowned for its very high quality audio, even with the stock Sennheiser headphones.

1 Products
2 See also
3 External links

Products

iRiver's range, as of August 2004 is as follows. In the case of hard disk and flash memory-based players, the amount of storage built in is given in brackets. Some models have been discontinued from production and retail:

Some of the iMP-Series are known as the C-Series in Korea.

Hard disk based players

H10 (Avaliable in 4 different colours, 5 GB, colour screen)
H300 series, similar to the H100 series, but capable of transferring pictures directly from digital cameras and UMS-compatible devices, such as flash drives (on the international version), and displaying digital images on a colour screen: H320 (20 GB) and H340 (40 GB) as well as movies at 10 fps with Xvid encoding (with the international version firmware update)

Flash memory based players

N10 series: (128 MB, 256 MB, 512 MB, 1 GB) "medallion-style" — worn hanging from the neck.
iFP-1000 series: (256 MB) and 1095 (512 MB). Both with digital camera built-in; prism shaped.
iFP-800 series: (128 MB, 256 MB, 512 MB, 1 GB). Candy bar shaped.
iFP-700 series: (128 MB, 256 MB, 512 MB, 1 GB).
iFP-100T series: 195TC (512 MB), 190TC (256 MB), 180T (128 MB). Prism shaped.

The iFP-Series are also known as the F-Series in Korea.

Discontinued

iGP-100 (1.5 GB)
H100 series (previously branded "iHP-"): H110 (10 GB), 120 (20 GB) and 140 (40 GB)
iFP-300T series: 395T (512 MB), 390T (256 MB), 380T (128 MB), 340 (64 MB, US only). Candy bar shaped.
iFP-500T series: 599T (1 GB) 595T (512 MB) 590T (256 MB). Soap bar shaped.
iMP-1000 (DivX video playback with TV-out)
"SlimX" sub-series: iMP-550, 450, 400, 350
iMP-700T ("Sports" model), 250, 125, 100, 50

DataPlay media based players

iDP-100 series: (500 MB).

Portable media players

iRiver have also developed two models of portable multimedia player (i.e. audio and video) market, capable of playing several digital video formats in addition to playing audio and displaying still images, with two models:

PMP-100 ("Portable Media Player") series: PMP-120 (20 GB) and PMP-140 (40 GB).
PMC-100 ("Portable Media Center"), running Microsoft Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Center.

External links

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