Examples of this can be seen in Apple Computer's shrinking iPods and the accessories that have been made for them, like the Video-55 by Sonic Impact, a $350 audio-video player designed for watching an iPod's videos on a seven-inch color screen with embedded stereo speakers.
RealNetworks spends little time in the audio-video-player business these days, concentrating instead on providing music and games directly to consumers.
Windows XP incorporates many applications, like a real-time audio and video player and instant messaging, much as older Windows versions integrated the Internet Explorer browser.
This external hard drive with a built-in audio and video player puts the best of many technologies into one package.
The announcement comes on the heels of the latest release of audio and video player software by Microsoft's main competitor in this area, Real Networks.
Microsoft, continuing its effort to extend its reach beyond computers, today introduced designs for a new class of watch that gives more than the time and a pocket audio and video player.
The new system, Windows XP, incorporates many software applications, like a real-time audio and video player, much the way that the older Windows operating systems integrated the Internet Explorer browser.
[C6.] Microsoft Continues to Branch Out Microsoft, continuing its effort to extend its reach beyond computers, introduced designs for a watch that gives more than the time, and a pocket audio and video player.
RealNetworks, the Web audio and video player company, took a beating this year, with revenue and profits slumping soundly.
Also coming in October is the Sansa View, an audio and video player with a 2.4-inch screen–$150 gets you the eight-gigabyte model; the 16-gigabyte version is $200.
