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The Toshiba Gigabeat V Series Advances

By: Travis Booysen on May 28, 2007 9:13 AM

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Two new installments to Toshiba’s Gigabeat V series were announced today. The V801 and V401 will contain 80GB and 40GB hard drives, respectively. Once again, a new color, Bordeaux Brown, is added to the line-up, but this time there are more modifications to get excited about.

The 3.5-inch QVGA TFT screen has been upgraded to a 4 incher and the 320 x 240 pixel resolution has been increased to 480x272. The players will feature a sensor that automatically alters the brightness of the screen to correspond to the surrounding light. The devices will also come with new H2C technology, which claims to compensate for sound quality lost during audio compression by using its own algorithm to counter the audio compression algorithms of WMA and MP3 files. The portable media players will be available in Japan on June 1st.

[Toshiba (Japan) via I4U]

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Comments

skippyg on May 28, 2007 2:30 PM

wow i for one am impressed, but im guessing that they will only support wmv and ONE other codec just like the others.

nodspy on May 28, 2007 5:26 PM

Creative should do something like that with xfi and the zen vision w.

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