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Directed Mobile PMP3520 Portable Media PlayerDirected Mobile Media Introduces Portable Media Player

Directed Electronics, the largest designer and marketer of consumer branded vehicle security and convenience systems in the United States and a leading supplier of car and home audio, mobile video, and satellite radio products, announced today the scheduled release of its new Portable Media Player model PMP3520 in early September.

This lightweight, pocket-sized video and audio player stores digital content in a wide variety of formats on a 20 Gigabyte hard drive, and plays it back on a large 3.5 inch digital LCD screen. The device allows users to capture and transfer video and audio content from TV, camcorders, personal computers, SD / MMC memory cards and from other similar devices to the PMP for playback at any time for their own personal use.

The PMP3520 also contains an FM radio, a clock with alarm, a voice recorder and comes with built-in DivX and MPEG4 video encoders as well as an MP3 audio encoder. The removable and rechargeable Lithium Ion battery pack will play 3.5 hours of stored video or 8 hours of MP3 audio between charges. The unit comes with headphones, USB 2.0 OTG and RCA cables, AC adapter, credit card-sized remote control, and carrying case. Suggested retail price is $449.

According to Jim Minarik, President and CEO of Directed Electronics, "We see the portable media players market as an exciting new category in consumer electronics, and a logical extension of the popularity of portable MP3 players."

The PMP3520 and other Directed Mobile Media products will be available at authorized Directed retailers including online mass-merchants. For more information, please visit www.directedmobilemedia.com. The Directed Mobile Media family of products includes other models which are dockable in Directed Video Overhead Monitors.

PMP3520 Features:

80 Hours of video in DivX, MPEG4, WMV, AVI and MOV formats or,

5,000 music files in MP3 and WAV formats or,

100,000 digital images in JPG, BMP, TIF and GIF formats

Large bright 3.5 inch TFT LCD screen

Built-in FM receiver

Mini USB On-The-Go (otg) Port - Lets you support "peer to peer" applications

Digital voice recorder

Record directly from TV, VCR, Satellite, Cable etc.

Lithium-lon Rechargeable Removable battery

Built-in SD and MMC memory card reader

AV Input and Output