Cowon D2
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The Cowon D2 is a portable media player
with touch screen interface designed and marketed by Cowon
Systems Inc. Cowon updated the D2 as the D2+ featuring BBE+ sound enhancement and a plastic casing.
and DAB
compatibility, and an SDHC card slot. In terms of battery life, the D2+ has a claimed rating of around 50 hours for audio and 10 for video.
Portable media player
A portable media player or digital audio player, is a consumer electronics device that is capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, video, documents, etc. the data is typically stored on a hard drive, microdrive, or flash memory. In contrast, analog portable audio...
with touch screen interface designed and marketed by Cowon
Cowon
Cowon Systems, Inc. is a South Korean electronics company. Established in 1995, the company's initial focus was software development. In 2000, with the introduction of the CW100, Cowon expanded their business to the portable digital audio player industry....
Systems Inc. Cowon updated the D2 as the D2+ featuring BBE+ sound enhancement and a plastic casing.
Specifications
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 4/8/16 GB Gigabyte The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units , therefore 1 gigabyte is... |
| Memory type | Flash-based Flash memory Flash memory is a non-volatile computer storage chip that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. It was developed from EEPROM and must be erased in fairly large blocks before these can be rewritten with new data... |
| Dimensions | 78 × 55.4 × 16.6 mm/3.07 × 2.18 × 0.65 in |
| Weight | 91 g (3.2 oz) |
| Screen | 2.5 in (63.5 mm) TFT LCD touchscreen |
| Screen resolution | 320 × 240 pixels (QVGA) |
| Color depth | 24bit (16M colors) |
| Battery life | Audio playback: 52 hrs Video playback: 10 hrs |
| Video formats | WMV Windows Media Video 'Windows Media Video is a video compression format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft. The original video format, known as WMV, was originally designed for Internet streaming applications, as a competitor to RealVideo. The other formats, such as WMV Screen and WMV Image, cater... , DIVX DIVX DIVX was an unsuccessful attempt by Circuit City and the entertainment law firm Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca and Fischer to create an alternative to video rental in the United States.-Format:... , XVID XviD Xvid is a video codec library following the MPEG-4 standard, specifically MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile . It uses ASP features such as b-frames, global and quarter pixel motion compensation, lumi masking, trellis quantization, and H.263, MPEG and custom quantization matrices.Xvid is a... - 30fps |
| Audio formats | MP3 MP3 MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression... , OGG Vorbis Vorbis is a free software / open source project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation . The project produces an audio format specification and software implementation for lossy audio compression... , FLAC, WAV WAV Waveform Audio File Format , is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs... , WMA Windows Media Audio Windows Media Audio is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. The name can be used to refer to its audio file format or its audio codecs. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. WMA consists of four distinct codecs... , APE |
| Photo formats | JPEG JPEG In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.... , BMP |
| Text formats | TXT Text file A text file is a kind of computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines of electronic text. A text file exists within a computer file system... |
| Voice Recording | 32-256 kbit/s recording and playback |
| FM Radio | 76 MHz - 108 MHz(JP), 87.5 MHz - 108 MHz (KR, US, EU) |
| Radio Recording | 32-256 kbit/s |
| External Memory | Slot for SD/SDHC or MMC card |
| Battery | Built in, rechargeable lithium-polymer battery |
| S/N ratio | 95 dB DB DB may refer to:In science and technology:*Decibel , a logarithmic unit of measurement in acoustics and electronics*Dubnium , a chemical element*DB connector, a size of D-subminiature electrical connector... |
| EQ Equalization Equalization, is the process of adjusting the balance between frequency components within an electronic signal. The most well known use of equalization is in sound recording and reproduction but there are many other applications in electronics and telecommunications. The circuit or equipment used... types |
5-band EQ, jetEffects, BBE, BBE+ (D2+ only) |
| Connection type | USB 2.0 |
| System requirements | Windows Vista Windows Vista Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs... /XP Windows XP Windows XP is an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops and media centers. First released to computer manufacturers on August 24, 2001, it is the second most popular version of Windows, based on installed user base... /ME/2000/98 SE/98, MAC OS 9.X, 10.X/Linux 2.2 or higher (support only for data transfer). |
Features
The D2 and D2+ include Flash Lite, a text viewer, voice recording, FM radio with recording, TV-out, optional DMBDigital Multimedia Broadcasting
Digital Multimedia Broadcasting is a digital radio transmission technology developed in South Korea as part of the national IT project for sending multimedia such as TV, radio and datacasting to mobile devices such as mobile phones...
and DAB
Digital audio broadcasting
Digital Audio Broadcasting is a digital radio technology for broadcasting radio stations, used in several countries, particularly in Europe. As of 2006, approximately 1,000 stations worldwide broadcast in the DAB format....
compatibility, and an SDHC card slot. In terms of battery life, the D2+ has a claimed rating of around 50 hours for audio and 10 for video.