There are various digital camcorders available in the market. AstraCam DV 680 manufactured by Umax is one of them. This device has 6 mega pixels CCD camera, which could be interpolated up to 8 mega pixels.

This camcorder has 2.5 inches swiveled TFT screen, which could be rotated until 2900. Thus, it can provide more comfortable viewfinder appearances for different image capturing positions.

Interestingly, AstraCam DV680 is equipped with Advanced Electronic Image Stabilizer technology, which reduces blur effects during fast movement recordings. Flashlight with auto, auto with red reductions, fill-in, slow, sync, and off menus are also provided. AstraCam DV680’s video recordings are in the format of avi extension, and could be played with the camcorder’s playback feature.

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Umax has once again diversified MP3 Player market by the release of its newest product, Vega 205. This MP3 player having 7×4, 15×1, 42 cm dimensions and 44 g weight is equipped with 262k color 1.8 inch OLED screen, far better than its predecessor Vega 205 which still has monochrome display. Vega 205’s also has 1 GB memory capacity, four times bigger than Vega 203.

Vega 205 can play mp3, wma, and wav files with 8 kbps-320kbps (mp3) and 16 kbps-192 kbps (wma) bit rates. Not only that, this device can also open video/photo/text formats such as smv, jpeg, and txt (e-book). Vega 205 is also equipped with equalizer feature to compensate for sound distortion.

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