Chinese MP4 players are radiation risk
Says government regulatory agency
PICKING UP that cheap made-in-Shanghai MP4 video player could be hazardous to your health and that of your children and pets, according to a report today in the Chinese press.
The Shanghai Administration for Industry and Commerce tested 20 lots of MP4 players and found that 75 per cent of the batches emitted high levels of electromagnetic radiation.
High frequency radiation leakage from electronic devices can interfere with other equipment nearby and cause biological harm to people and animals exposed to it.
The Chinese regulatory body also found that the labeling on many of the MP4 players that it examined misrepresented their actual capacity, overstating their size by about six percent. µ
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Bollocks.
More radiation than GSM/Wifi/Bluetooth? I doubt that.. No GHz-band oscillators in an MP4 player (at least not a cheap one).. And it doesn't even have an antenna. :)Noone's even been able to prove that radiation below 5GHz at a watt or less (certainly not the milliwatt levels seen in an MP4 player) can do any harm at all to people/animals.. So if you ask me this is just a ruse by the chinese regulators to hurt a company they have a quarrel with.
base 2 or base 10
This is old news!The knowledge of the author of that article is way outdated. Capacity of storage devices was redefined (harmonised to decimal: base 10) a fair few years ago. Hard drive manufacturers us the new definition, but many operating systems still use the old one (binary: base 2), hence the apparent discrepancy.
Very misleading title
"Radiation risk" implies that there's an ionising radiation hazard; when in reality it's just an EMI issue. Exceedingly misleading title IMO. Bad Inq.P.S. Any chance of fixing the captcha so that I can reply with jscript disabled?
Invasion of the Chinese Junk
Nuff said.Re: Capacity Misrepresentation
"The Chinese regulatory body also found that the labeling on many of the MP4 players that it examined misrepresented their actual capacity, overstating their size by about six percent."Welcome to every HDD ever made anywhere in the world.
sell me a bridge
Electromagnetic radiation? Ain't that a load of crap.title
75% of the bitches gave off radiation? eh? no?IIRC...
The "self certification" system for EU companies resulted in similarly high levels of emissions (ISTR seeing a report on it in the last 2-3 months)EM
I don't find this surprising or misleading. Its got nothing to do with transmitted radio signals as some read on here, its go to do with generally poor quality players, or players using some low quality components not meeting EM regulations. It doesn't matter whether it is actually harmful or not, it just matters that they don't meet regulations. Sadly we're talking about Chinese regulations here, which assumingly may not be as strict as western regulations such as those in the US, Europe, Australia etc.If the device emits EM radiation they could affect sensitive equipment such as hospital equipment, pacemakers, cochlear implants etc
Nuclear powered?
Maybe these are nuclear powered players that don't ever need new batteries- LOL-