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iriver (full name iriver Limited) is a Korean venture company,The mother company is ReignCom that is in Seoul too. iriver is a consumer electronics developer founded in 1999, most renowned for making portable digital audio (aka MP3 players) and video players. iriver's first released model was the iMP-100 , a portable CD player capable of decoding MP3 data files on CDs. The current product range is capable, variously, of playing MP3, WMA, ASF ,and also Ogg Vorbis, and WAV audio files, DivX, WMV, MPEG4 and AVI video files, and displaying JPG and BMP image files.

1 Products

iriver's range, as of August 2004 is as follows. In the case of hard disk and flash memory-based players, the amount of storage built in is given in brackets. Some models have been discontinued from production and retail:

1.1 Compact Disc based players (with playback of audio codecCodec is a portmanteau of co der dec oder", which describes a device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal. Codecs can both put the stream or signal into an encoded form (often for transmission, storage or encryption)s)

iMP series

• iMP-1000 (DivX video playback with TV-out)
• "SlimX" sub-series: iMP-550, 450, 400, 350
• iMP-700T ("Sports" model), 250, 125, 100, 50

Some of the iMP-Series are a.k.a. C-Series in Korea.

1.2 Hard diskA hard disk (or hard disc or hard drive ) is a computer storage device. Mechanics A hard disk uses rigid rotating platters. It stores and retrieves digital data from a planar magnetic surface. Information is written to the disk by transmitting an electrom based players

• iGP-100 (1.5 Gb)
• H100 series (previously branded "iHP-"): H110 (10Gb hardrive), 120 (20Gb) and 140 (40Gb)
• H300 series, similar to the H1** series, but capable of transferring pictures directly from digital cameras, and displaying digital images on a colour screen: H320 (20Gb hardrive) and 340 (40Gb hardrive)

1.3 Flash memoryFlash memory is a form of EEPROM that allows multiple memory locations to be erased or written in one programming operation. Normal EEPROM only allows one location at a time to be erased or written, meaning that flash can operate at higher effective speed based players

• N10 sub-series (128Mb, 256Mb, 512Mb) "medallion-style" i.e. worn hanging from the neck
• iFP-1000 sub-series (256Mb) and 1095 (512Mb) (both with digital camera built-in, prism shaped)
• iFP-800 sub-series (candy bar shaped: (128Mb, 256Mb, 512Mb or 1Gb)
• iFP-700 sub-series: (128Mb, 256Mb, 512Mb or 1Gb)
• iFP-500T sub-series (soap bar shaped): 599T (1Gb) 595T (512Mb) 590T (256Mb)
• iFP-300T sub-series (candy bar shaped): 395T (512Mb), 390T (256Mb), 380T (128Mb)
• iFP-100T sub-series (prism shaped): 195TC (512Mb), 190TC (256Mb), 180T (256Mb)

The iFP-Series are a.k.a. F-Series in Korea.