heystoopid used our news submit to tell us "Whilst browsing at another website "majorgeeks.com" they have an interesting software updates news and reviews and other oddities, so for those who like a new all around type media player powered by linux has harddrives of 30 gig plus and the unit comes in 2 screen sizes. The makers Zupera, claim a battery life of 8 hours for music and 4 hours for video, a built in cf card reader to download photos from a digital camera.  So I, thought the readers of this site would like to see this item."

The 30GB Zupera AV-EL5.6 and AV-EL7 are the ultimate lightweight, high-capacity handheld AV media players. Our brilliant colour 5.6" TFT LCD (model: AV-EL5.6) or 7" TFT LCD (AV-EL7) provides a satisfying viewing experience and ensures ease-of-use with friendly screen icon interfaces. Ported with embedded Linux Operating System, friendly screen icon interfaces include: Mobile Theatre, Music Centre, Set-up (as to select preference for optimal usage), Photo Album, and My Files. Power use can be regulated and configured for long lasting performance, such as: screen brightness & contrast; more than four hours of Audio/Video playtime (two long play feature movies), and eight hours of audio playtime. It also supports legacy MP3 playback and JPEG and TIFF image still image files. You can download movies, audio files, photographs, and store files directly from a PC or Macintosh computer through the fast USB 2.0 interface. Uploading still .JPEG format photographs into EL5.6 or EL7 is easy by fast USB 2.0 computer connection or Compact Flash (CF) memory card; a built-in Compact Flash card reader for transferring photos directly from digital cameras. Utilizing the Windows Media Centre Edition interface, AV-EL5.6 and AV-EL7 uses Microsoft's implementation of MPEG-4. Zupera is known within the industry as a Microsoft Embedded Partner and manufacturer of handheld computing devices.

I guess what catches my eye too is the fact that we have a Microsoft Embedded partner using a Windows Media Center interface, Microsoft's implementation of MPEG4, and yet it has Linux for an OS. Kinda unique. Unfortunately, the Zupera site was down, or at least quite slow at the time of this article and I was unable to provide a screenshot of what it looks like. Here is a link to the page in case it comes up again later and they have a shot there.

Source: XTV world