In Japan, Sharp has used its ARM licence to supply chips for Nintendo's latest handheld player, Game Boy Advance.
Indeed, by Christmas, the company may deliver its biggest one-two punch yet, with the much-anticipated release of its next-generation handheld player, the Game Boy Advance.
Nintendo shares fell more than 9 per cent on Thursday after the video game maker slashed its profit forecast for the year and said its new 3D-capable handheld player would miss the crucial year-end shopping season.
Paul pulled out his new iPod handheld player and rhapsodized, "It is so cool".
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day, for the Nintendo ds handheld player, was one of the hottest games in Japan last year, selling 1.7 million copies.
ABC sells reruns of Desperate Housewives for Apple's iPod handheld player at $1.99 an episode; NBC has just begun selling 99-cent reruns from its Law and Order franchise and other series via DirecTV; in January CBS begins selling 99-cent replays of its CSI series, Survivor and other shows on Comcast cable systems hours after their first run.
And for the Pokémon Company, which unknown to many is a separate company from Nintendo (although the latter has a stake), it offered a prospect to expand the Pokémon brand beyond the core of its handheld console players, and finally enter the world of free-to-play mobile games.
DVRs have, however, featured in the plots of sitcoms such as "Sex and the City", which is a sure sign of their cultural potency.One thing that might help to spread the word about DVRs is the emergence of handheld video players that use hard drives for storing programmes, such as the Archos AV, which can store up to 80 hours of video using the new MPEG4 compression algorithm, and the RCA Lyra.
Handheld video players contain a lot of pirated content.
