Amex Digital’s new MP-501 media player is small — measuring just 175- x 128- x 15mm and weighing 250 grams, but that doesn’t mean it’s not powerful. It connects to USB hard drives, flash drives, and has a SD card slot, and can stream 1080p video to your TV over HMDI thanks to its ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, making it the smallest player in the world capable of full HD video. Video support is broad, too, as long as it’s not DRM’ed. There’s also some standard def love with a composite video / audio output and mini-USB port. Best of all, the MP-501 is available now for $49.

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Amex Digital has announced 2 new photo frames, the SR-7 and SW-7.  Both frames sport a 7-inch 800×480 LCD and play back a variety of media which includes music, movies and pictures.  They’ve also got the usual LCD photo frame inputs such as media card reader and USB input.  The SW-7 differentiates itself from its brethren by sporting a weather station and the ability to communicate with up to 5 wireless remote temperature sensors.  The SR-7 on the other hand, features a temperature and a radio controlled clock read out just below its main display.

No word on when the frames will ship, but the SR-7 and the SW-7 will go for $129 and $139 respectively.

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Personally I think it’s no ‘biggy’ that Apple left out Blu-ray drives from its latest laptops released this past Tuesday (I’m more pissed about the lack of Firewire in the new Macbooks).  It would’ve driven up cost and more importantly contradicted the purchase of hi def movies found at the iTunes store. Course that probably explains Amex Digital’s announcement today for their portable blu-ray player specifically aimed at Mac users.  It plays and burns Blu-rays and DVDs and supports 12cm and 8cm discs.  No power cord is necessary since it runs off the connected USB port and it looks pretty sleek.

Expect it to cost about $270 with no word on availability.

Official announcement here

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