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Digital Foci's Picture Porter Elite

Digital Foci has announced its Picture Porter Elite portable digital photo album with 40GB and 80GB hard drives and a memory card reader. With its high-capacity hard drive, you can now carry your collection of digital photos and video with you all the time right in your pocket and view them anywhere. While viewing photos on Picture Porter Elite's bright LCD, you can rotate, zoom, pan, view EXIF information, and play picture slideshows. You can also connect Picture Porter Elite to a TV and share your photos and music with family and friends on a big screen in the comfort of your living room.

Picture Porter Elite supports the PictBridge standard so you can print directly to any PictBridge compliant printer without a computer. All you have to do is connect Picture Porter Elite by USB to a PictBridge compliant printer and print photos as you view them on the Picture Porter Elite screen.

Picture Porter Elite works with all popular media card formats, including CF I/II, MD, MMC, SD Card, Memory Stick, MS PRO, and MS Duo, and MS PRO Duo, so you can copy and save your precious pictures directly from just about any digital camera memory card format. You can also take advantage of its multi-format memory card support and use Picture Porter Elite to archive all your special picture moments.

Picture Porter Elite is also can be used as a portable MP3 and video player - keep your entire collection of content in one place for easy access. With built-in microphone and recording capability, you can use Picture Porter Elite as a voice recorder to record lectures, interviews, or conferences. Picture Porter Elite also records videos straight from TV or any other video source using high-compression MPEG-4 encoding. The MPEG-4 format will keep the file sizes small for easy sharing while maintaining a high level of picture and sound quality.

Compatible with Windows and Mac, Picture Porter Elite lets you easily transfer files to and from your computer and between computers with different operating systems through its high-speed USB 2 connection. Moreover, bi-directional data transfer lets you copy files directly from any memory card to the Picture Porter Elite hard drive and vice versa.

Picture Porter Elite Features:

- Photo, video and MP3 player
- Large 3.6" Color LCD screen for viewing pictures and videos
- Directly reads & writes to memory cards
- Memory card format support of CF I/II, MD, MMC, SD Card, Memory Stick, and MS PRO (xD-Picture card, miniSD, RS-MMC, MS Duo, and MS PRO Duo with adapter)
- Bi-directional data transfer that allows direct transfer to and from memory cards
- Output to TV
- Directly print to PictBridge compliant printers
- Archives and backs up files
- Digital voice and video recorder
- Image format support for JPEG, Tiff, BMP, GIF, RAW
- Music format support for MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV
- Video format support for MPEG-1, MPEG-4, DivX 5.x, WMV, MJPEG
- Includes Ulead Video Toolbox 2 to edit video clips, create slideshows and convert video files
- Includes Ulead Photo Explorer 8.5 SE for easy digital photo management
- Transfers files between multiple computers running different operating systems

Picture Porter Elite is compact and light-weight weighing only 11 oz. (with hard drive and battery included) with dimensions of 5.3" (W) x 3.1" (L) x 1.1" (H). It comes in stylish black metallic and has 2 storage capacities: 40GB and 80GB.



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