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Seems like portable picture/video/music devices are launching fast and furious: Digital Foci has taken the wraps off its Picture Porter Elite, a portable image and video viewer with a 3.6-inch, 320 by 240 pixel LCD display, a memory card reader, video output, USB 2.0, a hard drive capacity of 40 or 80 GB, and PictBridge compatibility for printing images directly to PictBridge-compatible printers via USB without an intervening computer.

The Picture Porter Elite memory card reader supports CompactFlash I/II, MD, MMC, SD Card, Memory Stick, MS PRO media (plus xD-Picture card, miniSD, RS-MMC, MS Duo, and MS PRO Duo with an adapter), making it easy to load and store media from a variety of digital cameras and camcorders. As a picture viewer, the unit supports JPEG, GIF, BMP, and RAW images, but can also plow its way through MPEG1/2/4, WMV9, and Motion JPEG video

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