Cowon A3

Cowon is about to launch its new portable media player known as the Cowon A3 in Japan. It will going to be equipped with the DaVinci chipset that works great for high performance video playback. Also it has features like, a 4″ WVGA (that's 16 million) display and supports WMA, MP3, OGG, WAV, FLAC, APE, and AC3 audio as well as mobile TV solutions like DMB, DVB-T, and 1-Seg. It will come in 30GB and 60GB models that retail for $450 and $540 respectively.

NitroAV SATAStar

NitroAV SATAStar Plus has started to ship its latest PCIe chipset based 4-Port external host adapter that was specially designed for the ultra fast PCIe bus found on Apple MacPro, PowerMac G5 PCIe based desktop computers, Windows and Linux.

The 4-Port PCIe provides fantastic bandwidth for data throughput with its native PCIe host connection, utilizing the Silicon Image 3132 chipset and compatible with 4x, 8x and 16x PCIe slots. This 4-Port PCIe host adapter is designed for optimum performance and reliability required for large data storage needs as well as digital audio, digital video and graphic professionals alike. For video professionals this SATAStar Plus adapter supports 10-bit uncompressed HD, 8-bit uncompressed HD, DV, HDV, DVPRO HD, 8-bit and 10-bit SD video workflow. Sustainable transfer rate is the gauge and tests show throughputs with 4 drives OS stripped utilizing AJA KONA Systems Test exceeding 295Mb/s reads and 301Mb/s writes sustained and even faster with larger number of drives.