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The Features of an MP4 Player

Been hearing about MP4 Players and wondering whether you should go for one or not? Before you come to any such concrete decisions, have a run through of all the features that an MP4 would be able to provide you with.

There may be people who would argue that it is better to keep your MP3 Player as it plays media files of the MP4 Format as well, but the sweet truth is that the MP4 Players do more than just play songs and videos, these are capable of playing the radio, audio books and the more expensive ones can even store video games; what is more the best of the lot are also capable of television reception as well as capturing videos! However, the bitter truth of the matter is that an MP4 player would not be as tiny as your MP3 Player was, mainly because of its screen that is quite large it would not be pocket sized, but definitely portable, the smallest ones capable of fitting onto your palm.

So with the MP4 as well you get to choose between two of its kind, the hard drive MP4 Player and the Flash Memory one. However it would always be more advisable to go for the Hard Drive MP4 as it would allow more screen space to view videos (Flash Memory MP4's have smaller screens and thus a smaller body as a whole) and also the storage space would not be enough for the large size of the videos that you would most likely be storing on it. So if you are really considering buying an MP4 that would come handy for carrying videos, go for a Hard Drive MP4 Player.

These hard Drive MP4 Players have a lot larger storage capacity of more than 100GB. Another great advantage of these Hard Drive MP4 Players is that they can also easily be used to transfer data from computers to other computers etc.

MP4 typically support many more File Formats than the Mp3 Players that were just being spoken about. Besides the media files of the MP1,Mp2 and MP3 versions of songs and videos it can also play videos of the DivX or AVI etc and for audio as well they can play WMA etc. Besides this great feature of being able to play various kinds of media files, many of these MP4 Players also have a Television tuner and a docking station that could receive Television reception; this comes as an accessory of the Mp4 Player. Besides that, many of these Mp4 players also have a camcorder attached to the system as a means of recording video as and when required on the go.

So if you buy one MP4 player it is equal to several other gadgets that you would normally have also bought and carried with you. But instead you get to buy one device and own in addition to all that, all these features. So does MP3 move over now?