iriver's clix+ with DMB now available

We're sorry for being selfish, but we can't hide our disappointment at this clix+ packing an upgrade for Koreans and Koreans alone. Don't get us wrong, DMB is a great upgrade that any PMP should be proud of, we just wished it did more for own portable viewing experience -- we're still stuck in that early 20th century model of downloading content and transcoding it for our later viewing enjoyment. Anyways, enough about us. The clix "plus" is just a basic 4GB or 8GB clix DAP with the addition of a DMB tuner, so not much more to see here. The 4GB goes for 218,000 won (about $235 US) while the 8GB is 278,000 won (about $300 US).

[Jonathan Bergeron @ Dec 18th 2007 10:38AM]

What's a DMB?

It looks better than any Apple product out there... about time somebody else designed something nice.

[daniel @ Dec 18th 2007 7:09PM]

Live broadcasting from satellite feeds available in SK for free. Basically with DMB anything becomes a live digital free-to-air television.

[Dasutin @ Dec 18th 2007 10:40AM]

Dave Matthews Band... duh!

[Jonathan Bergeron @ Dec 18th 2007 10:46AM]

oh okay... i think that's a pretty crappy upgrade to a PMP (pointless movie player?). they could have a picked a better band.

[jungyup lee @ Dec 18th 2007 10:53AM]

DMB... Digital Multimedia Broadcasting.
Simply you can watch TV broadcasting. People in South Korea are doing that in the subway while commuting. Soon in the US?

[Adrian Williams @ Dec 18th 2007 11:17AM]

Looks like half a DS

[Matthew Hilario @ Dec 18th 2007 1:13PM]

damn koreans. they get cute girls and the coolest portable tvs.

[slipperywhenwet @ Dec 18th 2007 10:50PM]

Why did it take iriver this long to release a clix with DMB? Cowon has had a D2 with DMB for nearly a year. With DMB available on most cellphones, e-dictionaries, PMPs, and MP3 players, it just seems surprising that iriver would actually consider this an "upgrade" rather than an essential component that they forgot to include in the first rendition.

[MicHo @ Dec 19th 2007 11:29PM]

nice