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What if iPods didn’t exist? Eight killer MP3 alternatives

September 11, 2008, 3:00 pm by Ben Sillis 1 comment

Filed under Portable Audio Tags: Apple, cowon, Creative, models, nano, player, shuffle, touch, zen

Steve Jobs proudly showed off his new babies in the iPod family on Tuesday, and unlike with Brad and Angelina’s twins, the cooing and excitement was justified - the new nano and touch actually do stuff.

But what if the new iPods hadn’t been launched? What would you be left to upgrade to? And what would you do if iPods didn’t even exist at all? Not to worry: there’ still plenty of top-end songbox rivals out there, many of which even outperform Apple’s holy products, and we’ve rounded them up on the other side of the jump.

Wear your MP3 player with pride!

June 5, 2008, 5:00 pm by James Holland Leave your comment

Filed under Portable Audio Tags: badge, MP3, pin, player

Check out this badge-inspired MP3 player. Perfect for popping on your blazer next to those CND, mod and school prefect pins.

DAB-packed iRiver Spinn to hit UK this August

June 2, 2008, 9:55 am by James Holland Leave your comment

Filed under Portable Audio Tags: DAB, iRiver, MP3, music, player, Spinn

Check out this silver dream machine. iRiver’s Spinn doesn’t just play back music and video, it comes packing a DAB tuner and fancy AMOLED screen.

Budget Blu-Ray coming from ASDA

May 16, 2008, 2:24 pm by James Holland 1 comment

Filed under Home Entertainment Tags: ASDA, Blu-ray, budget, News, Panasonic, player, Samsung, Sharp, Sony

We’ve heard WalMart has plans to offer Blu-Ray players at knock-down prices in the States, and now it’s confirmed we’ll be getting the same HD bargains from ASDA!

Sky re-badges Anytime as Sky Player, adds live TV

May 15, 2008, 5:19 pm by James Holland Leave your comment

Filed under Home Entertainment Tags: anytime, player, sky, TV

Sky’s on-demand service just changed its name to the not-entirely-unfamiliar-sounding Sky Player, as well as adding live TV from Sky News and Sky Sports.