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The often-criticized Canadian “iPod put” may give back buttoned up a fresh price proposed in Parl. The NDP’s Member of Parl for Timmins-James Bay, Charlie Angus, has suggested in price C-499 that the Private Copying Put applied to blank CDs and tapes be long to MP3 players, smartphones and any other device with permanent storage where transferring air is a meaningful fact. He has claimed that the motility would accommodate “legal certainty” for impartial employ rights and would prevent lawsuits or other legal attacks against Canadians, whose guarantees for impartial employ aren’t as established as in the US.

Company Yamaha has presented desktop iPod system TSX-70. As the manufacturer marks, it is created to provide specially sounding of concert quality for modern generation iPod. Under its classical retrodesign the last developments in a series of desktop audiosystems (Desk Top Audio) and in a category of portable audio disappear.

Company Sony has expanded a lineup of multimedia digital players Walkman. Devices Walkman A840, S740 and S640 became new competitors iPod Nano.

The most perspective in respect of struggle against production Apple is model Walkman A840. A thickness of tank of this model makes only 7,1 mm. The size of the OLED-screen of a novelty reaches 2,8 inches. The operating mode of the device from the accumulator, according to Sony, can make 29 hours per a mode of audio or 9 hours in video mode.

Sony Walkman A840 supports almost all formats of media files, including AAC and H.264. The device is compatible to games hookup Sony PS3, and also supports operation with iTunes. The given model will be equipped 16, 32 and 64 Gb of memory, its cost will make from 265 to 442 dollars.

As to, models S740 and S640 they on functionality a little than differ from A840. However, instead of the OLED-display, they are equipped by the Zhk-screen. Nevertheless, these models have also the advantages. For example, period of their offline work more also reaches 42 hours per an audio mode.
Walkman S640 will appear in the market with size of 8 and 16 Gb at the price of 154 and 188 dollars accordingly. Model S740 with system active noise and a memory size 8, 16 and 32 Gb will cost 177, 210 and 276 dollars accordingly.

All three devices will appear on sale in the middle of October of current year.

Without loud announcements and noisy presentations company Apple has presented upgrade for program wearing of a player iPod nano fifth generation. Version 1.5.2 has brought corrections of set of small errors and as it is informed, has increased speed of operation of the device.

Besides, modes of playback of audio are corrected, the problem at which system Genius Mixes did not work with Nike + Sport Kit is solved. Now without problems customisation Mono Audio works. The error of operation VoiceOver with ear-phones when by pressing of buttons “+” and “-” there was no response is liquidated.

To refresh the version of wearing for iPod nano, as before, it is possible through iTunes, having clocked a player with the computer.

The German company Aldi, developing network Ipod of clones, offers an inexpensive attractive gift by Christmas holidays. The portable player which appearance very much reminds popular iPod nano became them. “The Cloned” player is equipped 4 Gb of the built in memory and it is offered in two design fulfilments and four colours.

The device is equipped by the 1,8-inch colour TFT-display, the FM-tuner and plays back a multimedia content through the built in speaker or the ear-phones connected to 3,5-mm to the plug. The player supports music in format MP3 and WMA, and also AMV-video. The built in accumulator is charged from port USB and its charging will suffice at 5,5 o’clock listening of music and at 3 o’clock video review in a mode “non-stop”. Besides, there is a support of tags ID3 and texts of songs which are displayed.
The player has not received the concrete name and the name of the manufacturer is not known also. Only 43 dollars are asked by the German manufacturer for this device.