Though the market is much smaller for PMPs than $50 DVD players, Apex is going to try their hand at Personal Media Players (PMP). Striking early, Apex will compete with Archos and RCA with their MP-2000 due out in late July, which will include a 20GB hard drive and 3.5-inch 320 by 260 screen that can play MPEG-4, DivX, Motion JPEG, and Windows Media 9 video. It will also encode video on the fly at VGA quality — up to 40 hours in MPEG-4 and 80 hours in WMV9.

Hopefully a firmware hack will do the trick, but this possibly promissing PMP “won’t play Macrovision-protected prerecorded video, but it is upgradable to support DRMs that authorized movie-download sites might support in the future.”

Apex Broadens Its Portfolio With First PMP, Cameras, DVR

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