Aigo's 2GB F965R PMP support Real Audio, MP5

Aigo's latest PMP smells like more hype that substance, but regardless, this 2GB player certainly has the look. Internally, you'll find a 600MHz processor, a 2.8-inch panel, Class-D digital amplifier, and support for a wide array of formats including Real Audio, JPEG, BMP, GIF, MP3, "MP5," WMA, FLAC, and APE. Additionally, it's equipped with an SD / MMC expansion slot for loading up excess media, and while we don't exactly envision this one escaping China anytime soon, those in the neighborhood can grab one for CNY999 ($132).

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[Jagannath A @ Aug 7th 2007 10:01AM]

'mp5' ????

smells like a typical chinese gadget ;)

[Scott @ Aug 7th 2007 10:51AM]

[notreally] Yes, among its other uses, it apparently supports playing of Mario Party 5. [/notreally]

[Preston @ Aug 7th 2007 10:22AM]

What?!?!?!

[Preston @ Aug 7th 2007 10:26AM]

Aww, now they deleted the comment I was responding to. Nevermind.

[Scott @ Aug 7th 2007 10:45AM]

What's Real Audio? ;)

[Mike @ Aug 7th 2007 10:48AM]

anyone wanna post a link to what an mp5 is (not a gun, or "Mario Party 5" as per wikipedia

[sholt @ Aug 7th 2007 10:59AM]

Clearly, it's 1 better than MP4.

[Denton @ Aug 7th 2007 9:53PM]

Surely, this is the MP5 they mean...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP5

[BananaBoat @ Aug 7th 2007 10:58AM]

MP5? This thing handles exotic sub-machine guns? Aweeeeeeeesomeeeeeeeeeee

[Mediaguy @ Aug 7th 2007 2:16PM]

MP5 refers to Aigo's marketing term of supporting RealVideo (RM/RMVB) content, as well as WM DRM files. Real format is very popular in China.

[Nick @ Aug 7th 2007 12:33PM]

I'll bite....

What the he!! is a "mp5"? I'm betting it's some proprietary "must use our software to transcode" format that doesn't really provide a benefit over vanilla mp4.

[DarkAardvark @ Aug 8th 2007 9:20AM]

my dad actually told me about MP5 when he went to china in '04. it's pretty much a more compressed version of MP3, but at the same quality. i guess you can fit more songs?