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Cowon
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Cowon Systems, Inc. is a South Korean electronics company established in 1995. The company's focus at that point in time was software. In 2000, Cowon expanded their business to the portable digital audio player market with the introduction of the CW100.
Cowon Systems expanded to the American market in 2000 by founding the company jetAudio, Inc. The company name was later changed to Cowon America.
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jetAudio is probably the most notable piece of software produced by Cowon America. jetAudio is a software multimedia player which offers features such as ripping CDs, re-encoding audio and video files, recording from external sources and burning capabilities. Some of these features are not found in other multimedia players. The plus version of this software includes many sound extension packs and other codecs which can playback almost any media file present. The latest stable version of jetAudio is 6.2.8 and Cowon America recently launched JetAudio 7 beta for testing purposes only. JetAudio 7 incorporates an all-new album manager, bookmarking a current position in the song and a Repeat Playlist feature. It also has a new balloon tooltip feature which supports a MSN messenger style display. Version 7 beta also includes support for many other file types such as 3G2, AAC, AC3, MKA, OFR, OFS, RMVB, SVD, TP, TRP, TS. jetAudio comes bundled with every player produced by Cowon.
Other products include programs like jetCast (which is bundled with jetAudio), Jet toolbar and jetMailMonitor. All these programs are available for free to download from the company's website.
Cowon manufactures the iAudio series of digital audio players. See iAudio for more details.
The Cowon A2 was introduced in August 2005. It is Cowon's first portable media player featuring a 4 inch widescreen display and many advanced features such as TV-out functionality, TV recording, FM radio, FM radio recording, voice recording & line-in recording.
After the firmware version 1.59, Cowon A2 supports FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) compression level 0 ~ 8 completely.
The A2 uses the Texas Instruments TMS320DM320 processor and the player's operating system is based on a heavily modified version of GNU/Linux. The Cowon A2 firmware source code can be found at [1].
The Cowon A2 is Cowon's first hardware product not to be marketed under the iAudio brand name.
As of Firmware Version 1.76 Beta the Cowon A2 can support CSD files that are created from a new application called mTrans 1.0 Beta that supports conversion from various formats including PDF, PPT, XLS, DOC, and others (corresponding applications for each filetype are required for conversion).
Firmware 1.85 includes DivX Certified Portable media player certification.
As of 2007-03-07, the firmware is at version 1.87, including an update to FLAC decoder V.1.1.4.
The Cowon DM1 is an accessory for the Cowon A2 that plugs into the USB-OTG port of the player. Once connected it is possible to watch digital terrestrial television in the DMB standard.
A 7 inch PMP only released in Korea
A 2.5 inch PMP that is fully touch screen enabled. Available in More than one color, and has 2 or 4 gb built in memory. The Key feature being the touch screen and the SD Card slot in the bottom.g
A PMP, that is an updated version of the Cowon A2. Not out yet in US Will have:
- 4-inch new TFT LCD
- High-quality TV Out: Component S-Video
- Supports H.264, WMV7/8/9, DivX 3.11/4/5/6, XviD, MPEG-4/-2/-1, D1: NTSC 720x480 / PAL 720x576, 30fps
- Document viewer: MS Office Hangul PDF, and etc.
- Audio: MP3, OGG, WMA, AC3, WAV, FLAC, APE, AAC
- Acts as a USB host
A 5 inch PMP running Windows CE 5.0 that is fully touch screen enabled.