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Cowon, purveyor of the most feature-packed MP3 players in the world, has announced the U.S. pricing and availability of its A3 portable video player (PVP), successor to the highly rated A2. According to Cowon, the first shipments of the A3 (pictured above) are due to arrive in early December, priced at $349 (30GB) and $399 (60GB) for the U.S. 

Specifications 

From a video perspective, the A3 features a 4-inch TFT LCD display with an 800×480 resolution and integrated component, S-Video, and composite video output. Like most Cowon players, the A3 natively supports an astounding array of file formats and codecs, including video formats such as AVI, DivX, XviD, MP4, ASF, MKV, VOB, OGM, WMV 7, H.264, MPEG, DAT, and MTV–all with a maximum resolution of 1280×720 at 30fps (yes, that's HD, people). As a music player, the A3 can play MP3, WMA, FLAC, OGG Vorbis, OGG FLAC, Apple Lossless, AAC/AAC+, AC3, True Audio, Monkey's Audio, MusePack, WavPack, G.726, and PCM audio formats. You also get support for subtitles, ID3 tags, lyric tags, the full slate of Cowon's JetShell audio enhancement features, a photo viewer (JPG, GIF, PNG, TIF, BMP, RAW), a 720×480 video recorder, line-input recorder (FLAC, WMA), voice recorder, FM radio, and radio recorder. If that's still not enough for you, you can always nerd-up to the Cowon Q5W.  

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