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First of all, before you go ahead and spend money on an MP4 player, you must make sure that you know all its functions and uses. An MP4 player unlike an MP3 Player would allow you to store and playback video and audio files along with text files and eBooks etc. Now that being said you have to decide whether you would need all these features out of your media gadget. However you need not worry about the price as retail markets have opened up the possibility of these MP4 Players to also be available at quite a reasonable range.

So before you go shopping for your MP4 player you must make sure you have certain basic requirements cleared out. Firstly, ask yourself what functions you would like out of your MP4 or rather why are you buying the MP4. So if you are planning on watching a lot of full length films or broadcast television shows or even read eBooks, then your basic requirement out of the MP4 would be a large screen for best visibility and also a large storage capacity to store all those files. If such is your requirement then you should look for an MP4 that has at least 10 to 120 GB storage. The larger the memory and screen for this kind of usage the better it would be for you. However, if you need the device only to listen to music and some music videos here and there, the memory and even the screen would not be of much importance then and you can make do with a memory of anywhere between 2 to 8 GB.

Secondly, according to your budget and also according to your requirement, you must select the MP4, whether a branded one or a counterfeit. A branded MP4 such as one of Apple or creative Zen would offer you the cream of the cream, from best functions and a great warranty; however there are also many counterfeit Mp4s that are available for much cheaper price and have the uniqueness of appearance along with great storage capacity and features. The only problem with these products is there warranty.

Also, when you are selecting an MP4 you must make sure that you have all the details of the kinds of formats that the device supports. There are many MP4 Players that do not support the MPEG4 format for video files. So you need to be careful while selecting and make sure that the kinds of File formats that you use for media files are all supported by the MP4 that you are buying. Besides these, you should also go through the additional accessories that come along with the device and purchase one according to your needs.

For starters, MP3 and MP4 players have a few things in common; they are similar devices. They are both digital media players and that being said it means that they are the kinds of device which can store, consequently organize and later playback media files. The biggest difference between MP3 and MP4 players is the kind of media files that they store. MP3 Players on the one hand support the storing and playing of audio files while MP4 Players are much more advanced in the way that they can store and playback all kinds of files which includes audio and video media files.

As mentioned before there are various similarities between the two kinds of Players as well; after all the MP4 Players are simply the more modern and improvised successors of the MP3 Players that were originally released as early as the early 1990’s. Hence, the major similarity between the two kinds of players is the way in which they function, that is how they store and organize the media files that are stored in the devices. Both the kinds of Media Players store the files by compressing the media files that are to be stored in these devices. Therefore in both the MP3 as well as the MP4 players, a large number of media files can be stored together on the same device.

Therefore that being the similarity, the difference between these two kinds of devices lies in the fact that the MP4 players are more advanced than the MP3 Players, therefore not just audio but one can have an MP4 Player that plays back both video and audio files and also one can view documents and text files if stored on the device. Although you might find that an MP3 player would also have a screen but do not be disillusioned as these screens are used to do no more than scroll through the list of audio tracks etc. So on an MP4 Player, the screen would also be pretty wide and would be clear enough for viewing photographs and video clips and even eBooks etc. However another thing you need to be careful about is that many of these MP4 players that are available for buying may not support the MP4 format of media files and so you need to be careful when you are buying the MP4 player and even if you buy one you need to make sure that you do not store any MP4 files on the player as those would be rendered useless.

All that being said, both these digital media players are useful where entertainment and storage is concerned and go ahead with one as per your needs.