Cowon
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Cowon Systems, Inc. is a South Korean eletronics company established in 1995. The company's focus at that point in time was software. In 2000, Cowon expanded their business to the portable digital audio player market with the introduction of the CW100.
Cowon Systems expanded to the American market in 2000 by founding the company jetAudio, Inc. The company name was later changed to Cowon America.
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[edit] Software
[edit] jetAudio
jetAudio is probably the most notable piece of software produced by Cowon America. jetAudio is a software multimedia player which offers features such as ripping CDs, re-encoding audio and video files, recording from external sources and burning capabilities. Some of these features are not found in other multimedia players.
jetAudio comes bundled with every player produced by Cowon.
[edit] Other programs
Other products include programs like jetCast (which is bundled with jetAudio), Jet toolbar and jetMailMonitor. All these programs are available for free to download from the company's website.
[edit] Hardware
[edit] The iAudio series
Cowon manufactures the iAudio series of digital audio players. See iAudio for more details.
[edit] Cowon A2
The Cowon A2 was introduced in August 2005. It is Cowon's first portable media player featuring a 4 inch widescreen display and many advanced features such as TV-out functionality, TV recording, FM radio, FM radio recording, voice recording & line-in recording.
After the firmware version 1.59, Cowon A2 supports FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) compression level 0 ~ 8 completely.
The A2 uses the Texas Instruments TMS320DM320 processor and the player's operating system is based on a heavily modified version of Linux. The Cowon A2 firmware source code can be found at [1].
The Cowon A2 is Cowon's first hardware product not to be marketed under the iAudio brand name.
As of Firmware Version 1.76 Beta the Cowon A2 can support CSD files that are created from a new application called mTrans 1.0 Beta that supports conversion from various formats including PDF, PPT, XLS, DOC, and others (corresponding applications for each filetype are required for conversion).
[edit] Cowon DM1
The Cowon DM1 is an accessory for the Cowon A2 that plugs into the USB-OTG port of the player. Once connected it is possible to watch digital terrestrial television in the DMB standard.
