Mp4 players are breaking into the music industry at an alarming rate! the fact is they are here to stay. Mp3 player is a word of the past now, mp4 players is the new word online.

For those of you that have already experienced the benefits, of an mp4 player are overwhelmed By the many features that they offer, many of these players have mp3/mp4 music support, photo album and file support, built in fm radio, games, voice recorders, and an option to extend the memory capacity, all this integrated in one small package.

The mp3 players have changed the evolution of music. Now mp4 Players have arrived!

What happened to the good old-fashioned records, or cassette tapes, that we all loved very much? I remember playing my tapes, and there was one thing that was frustrating, after listening to a favourite song, i would rewind the tape back, but had no way of telling where the beginning Of that particular song was, however nowadays with the mp4 video player you have complete Control of skipping forward and backwards at the touch of a button, technology simplified.

Why Mp4?

Mp4 is short for`MPEG-4’. The official extension name is mp4, hence the reason for the short name.

MPEG-4 technology has been developed to provide DVD quality, audio and pictures in an extremely small file size – ideal for playing on portable MP4 players.

The iPod Video is by far the most popular MP4 Player on the market. But iPod don’t want us to call it an MP4 Player even though it plays MP4 file. Why? It might be because you may choose another MP4 Player instead!

This is where Microsoft and Apple both seem arguably guilty. Both companies are dubiously controlling certain markets. However, this can give the advantage to the MP4 Player consumers. All that is required will be for you to take the time to convert your video files to MP4 ( as there is free software provided) then you can play them on your cheaper MP4 Player,But not inferior in any way, which probably has more functions than the Video iPod. Even if you decide to move to the Video iPod in the future, you can still transfer all your MP4 files, hassle free!

As a matter of a fact cheaper price does not mean low quality in any way. The Chinese companies have come up with the great quality products with exquisite designs and appearances at lower costs. With almost all the requisite features from graphic equalizers to FM functionality to astonishing memory capacity ranging between 128MB and 8GB or more, these low cost Mp4 players are great purchases, if you are on short on funds. The other lucrative features such as the original creation MTV/AMV film functionality, Drive free "U" disk, Recording and replay options, multiple repeat mode and etc. will be present even in the cheap mp4 players.

Moreover, sometimes the leading companies themselves sell the original products at a discounted rate for the purpose of clearing their existing stock. It is for real that the great names like Apple, Sony, Archos, and etc. often tend to clear their old stocks and sell their own products and their peripherals with their own esteemed seals at very nominal costs.

If an mp4 player comes from the reputable brand the sound quality must be unquestionably exceptional, no matter how cheap the price of the gadget may be.