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Am3, a company which’s shares are also hold by Toshiba and Bandai, will release a Smart Media Player for the Gameboy Advance and Advance SP end of May 2003.
The Adapter is supposed to play 24 minutes of animation (movies) on a standard 32MByte Smart Media card, a 256MByte Smart Media Card could hold up to 192 minutes. The compression technology used is provided by IMAGICA, which are also known for the HDCAM video compression.
The Gameboy Advance Smart Media Player will also be released outside of Japan, but no release date or distribution partner has been named. am3 will present the unit at the E3 in Los Angeles and Lik Sang expects further details by then. Since the Gameboy Advance doesn’t have a region lockout, we don’t expect that available media will come with such. It should be possible to play all files released on any GBA or Smart Media Player around the world.
The device will cost about US$ 39 .
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(Thanks to Lik-Sang for the info)