We’ve seen quite a few portable media players with built in digital receivers. Unfortunately (for those of us on this side of the Pacific, that is), most are DMB models designed for use in Korea. However, MSI is now rolling out the D310, a PMP with a Freeview receiver, which means that it’ll work anywhere that uses DVB-T for digital broadcasting. That covers much of Europe, Australia and parts of Asia and South America. As usual, North Americans will have to sit this one out. In addition to a DVB-T receiver, the D310 includes a 4.2-inch display, SD card slot, and compatibility with MPEG-4 video and MP3 audio files.

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PQI’s top-of-the-line 8GB Hi-Speed card targets consumers of high end dSLR’s and digital video cameras. It is scheduled to be released in the middle of this month at an estimated retail price of ¥80,000. The Hi-Speed card boasts a data transfer rate of 15MB/sec.

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The E-100M weighs just 3.2-pounds yet manages to pack an Intel Core Solo ultra-low voltage processor (1.06-GHz), 512MB of 533MHz DDR2 memory, 40GB SATA hard drive, 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi, and an optional external DVD±R/RW drive. Its 12.1-inch 1280 x 800 display keeps power consumption low — running for nearly 2.75-hours on a full charge. Gateway has begun shipping the E-100M, prices start at $1,399.

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It may be long overdue, but Sharp’s new “Internet Aquos” line is definitely worth a look. Available in 32-inch or 37-inch models, these LCD TVs come packaged with a mini-PC (PC-AX50M) — sporting an Intel Core Duo T2300 processor, HD-tuner, and Windows XP Home. Both displays feature 1366×768 resolution, 1200:1 contrast ratio, 6ms reponse time, 550 cd/m2 brightness, one HDMI port, and a 176-degree viewing angle. No word yet on pricing and availability.

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Brando is offering a converter cable to make all your internal SATA/EIDE devices USB 2.0 compatible. The cable works with all hard drives, CD drives and DVD drives. It’s no slouch on the performance side either, with a tested transfer rate of 165.3Mbps. The unit also comes with AC power adapters so you don’t need to power it with a computer.

We think it may be a little risky schlepping a bare drive around with you all the time without protection of any sort, but we’ve never been the kind to take chances with our data. Our precious, juicy data.

Brando SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Conversion Cable Review [Bona Fide Reviews]

From Gizmodo

While Panasonic brags about having the biggest (plasma display), Samsung crows about having the smallest, fastest and highest-capacity memory card, this one a 2GB MMCmicro device for cellphones, an alternative to microSD flash memory cards.

The performance of these thumbnail-sized cards is impressive, too, at a 7.4MB per second read speed and a 7.1MB per second write speed. That’s more than three times faster than the speed of microSD cards, according to Samsung. The company didn’t announce a ship date for the 2GB cards.

Samsung lauds ‘fastest, biggest’ MMCmicro card [Reg Hardware]

From Gizmodo

So apparently the viliv P1 personal media player is doing so well in the US, that the company has already announced plans to release their new model, the P2, Stateside as well. The P2 takes all the P1′s multi-codec goodness (MPEG-1/2/4, H.264, DivX, WMV 7/8/9, XviD, MP3, WMA, OGG, AC-3, and WAV), subtracts the iPod resemblance, and adds a 60GB option as well as an optional GPS receiver. Powered by a 400MHz AMD processor, the P2 runs on Windows CE 5.0 and sports a large 4.3-inch, 800 x 480 widescreen LCD, and also can also act as a USB 2.0 host device. Expect to see these for sale sometime in the middle of August, although pricing has yet to be announced.

From Engadget