…and if you own Kinoma Player 4 EX, the update is free. If you don’t, you can buy it here or upgrade from Kinoma Player 3 here.

If your Palm smart­phone or hand­held has an inter­net con­nec­tion, you can update by choos­ing Check for updates from the Media menu. Oth­er­wise, you can update from your PC.

Here’s a roundup of the new features:

Faster

• In the same way that browsers cache web pages for faster access, the new release of Kinoma Player 4 EX caches the areas of the Kinoma Media Guide that you use the most. This makes nav­i­ga­tion nearly instan­ta­neous for your favorite categories.

More com­pat­i­ble and reliable

• Some wire­less car­ri­ers block video and audio deliv­ered using UDP, an under-the-hood inter­net stan­dard often used for live broad­casts. This release sup­ports an alter­nate method of receiv­ing live broad­casts, mak­ing play­back more reli­able on more net­works than ever.
• Some net­work cam­eras broad­cast using Motion JPEG — essen­tially, a series of JPEG images — to deliver video. This release of Kinoma Player 4 EX now sup­ports Motion JPEG streams, so you can view more types of web­cams and net­work cam­eras. Motion JPEG is often used by traf­fic cams, and is sup­ported in cam­eras from Axis, Pana­sonic and others.
• Some MP3 and Win­dows Media (ASF) files are what we like to call “unusu­ally formed”. This release makes more of those unusually-formed MP3 and ASF files work.

Stereo Blue­tooth head­phone support

• Have you seen those cool, wire­less Blue­tooth head­phones, and won­dered when you can use them with Kinoma Player 4 EX? Now you can! This release adds sup­port for Blue­tooth stereo play­back to A2DP-compatible head­phones, head­sets and speak­ers. Palm OS doesn’t include A2DP sup­port, so this fea­ture requires Soft­ick Audio Gate­way v1.09 or later.

Improved Palm OS Integration

• Kinoma Player 4 EX now reg­is­ters with Palm OS as a player for all of the file types that it sup­ports. After you update, you’ll auto­mat­i­cally get an option to use Kinoma Player 4 EX to play your media from appli­ca­tions like Palm Files, Ini­ti­ate, and other third-party launch­ers and file explorers.
• Kinoma Player 4 EX works with your Palm’s Find fea­ture to search media files. Some of our cus­tomers wanted to be able to exclude media files from their searches, so we added this as an option to your Kinoma Player 4 EX preferences.

Get your ver­sion 4.2 update today, and don’t be shy about let­ting us know what you think in the forums.

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