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The outstanding Samsung Galaxy S3 provides a new outlook. It features quad-core chip, as large as a 4.8-inch display (height of 130 mm and depth of 8 mm), 2 GB of RAM, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system plus upgraded TouchWiz software. It better meets our demand and gives us more visual enjoyment and excitement and convenience.

As the most widely used video format, MP4 format is compatible with a great variety of digital players and devices including iPod, iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, Apple TV, Zune, PSP, PS3, Pocket PC, Archos and so on. However, MP4/MPEG-4/H.264 MP4 is not coded in many DVD players and some of its successors like HD DVD players, Blu-ray disc players and 3D DVD players hence it cannot be played on many DVD players. Even some DVD players are claimed to support MP4, due to specific codec required, some MP4 files still will not be played.

FLAC files are highly compressed files with size reduced to 50%-60% of its original size but audio quality is lossless. Because of these advantages, FlAC format is well received among audiophiles.

Bigasoft announced Bigasoft FLAC Converter was updated to support splitting FLAC files with CUE sheet. After these upgrade, Bigasoft FLAC Converter integrates converting and splitting FLAC files into one program. Mac OS X users now finally have a solution to split their big FLAC into separated tracks and convert to ALAC, M4A, AAC, WAV to be compatible with Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPad and Apple TV.

Though Flash video on the web can be played on iPad with the help of Adobe Flash Media Server, iSwifter or Skyfire browser, off-line flash video like SWF, FLV or F4V still cannot be imported to iPad, let alone to be playable on iPad.

Fast and professional ProRes encoding with excellent video quality for edit in Final Cut Pro as well as Apple Compressor alternative for decoding ProRes MOV to various video formats.

With the stunning Retina display and the support for 1080p video playback, the new, third-generation iPad makes everything looks and feels incredibly lifelike and perfectly detailed. However, the new iPad 3 only enables to playback 1080p H.264 video in M4V, MP4 and MOV file formats just as iPad or iPad 2 only supports playing 720p H.264 video in M4V, MP4 and MOV format. It will end in fail if we try to play 1080p MKV on iPad 3, iPad 2 or iPad.

Bigasoft iTunes Video Converter updated to support the new iTunes 10.6 and 1080p Apple TV 3. It can easy convert and import 1080p video in MKV, AVI WMV, WTV, FLV, WebM, MPG, DivX to iTunes 10.6 for play 1080p video on the new Apple TV 3, iPad 3 etc.

Bigasoft Corporation, the world's leading multimedia software provider, updated iPad Video Converter for supporting new iPad and new Apple TV in H.264 1080 HD video output as well as increased H.264 encoding speed 5X faster.

Apple Airplay allows wireless streaming of audio, video, and photos, together with related metadata between devices. With airplay, all of a sudden, your great photos, the perfect party mix and wonderful movies are on the big screen and the best speakers. It's a pity however, we still cannot play DVD on Mac/PC and have it stream to Apple TV/iPad/iPhone. This shortcoming even prevents some people from buying an Apple TV. Although with Mountain Lion, Apple claims with AirPlay Mirroring, you can stream what's on your Mac to your HDTV via Apple TV. We still need wait to see.