Amazon Kindle Fire VS B&N Nook Tablet

Follow up Amazon, Barn & Noble officially announced the Nook Tablet today. It would be predictable that the tough war will begin in these two handsets, which have similar price and order time.

Both tablets are now available for pre-orders. Before you decide which one to get, I would like to suggest you checking the comparison between the Kindle Fire and Nook tablet.



First have side-by-side comparison list: Nook Tablet VS Kindle Fire:



Resource from:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/07/nook-tablet-vs-kindle-fire_n_1080391.html

About multimedia enjoyment with Nook Tablet:
1. Supported File Types: Load ePub (including Non or Adobe DRM) or PDF file types from your computer or microSD card Other documents: CBZ, XLS, DOC, PPT, TXT, DOCM, XLSM, PPTM, PPSX, PPSM, DOCX, XLX, PPTX

2. Watch videos in: MP4, or Adobe Flash Player format, 3GP, 3G2 MKV, WEBM (Video Codecs: H.264, MPEG-4, H.263,VP8)

3. Load photos and create personal wallpaper: JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP

Play audio on built-in mono speaker: MP3, MP4, AAC, AMR, WAV, OGG (Audio Codecs MP3, AAC, AMR, LPCM, OGG Vorbis)

When it comes Kindle Fire, it can supported limited file type like TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8.

However, there are still some file formats that can't be included in the above. How to do with putting MOV, RMVB, AVI, etc source video on the either of the handset? To import the incompatible file format into the tablet, you need to first convert video to Nook Tablet or Kindle Fire acceptable file formats like MPEG-4. Read the detailed guide:

For preparation:
PC with Mac OS Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 (including Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 1.6 Snow Leopard) on iMac, MacBook, Mac Pro, etc.
Download and install the Nook Tablet Video Converter for Mac or Mac Video Converter for Kindle Fire

2. For those who run on Windows OS, please refer to the Video to Nook Tablet Converteror Kindle Fire Video Converter.

How to convert video to Nook Tablet on Mac?

Step 1. Load file(s) like MOV to the program
Click "Add File" to locate the MOV files you want to add. Batch conversion is supported.



Step 2. Select MPEG-4 as output file format
Choose the "Common Video"->MPEG-4 file format under the menu of "Profile".

Step 3. Start the video to Nook Tablet conversion on Mac
Hit the "Convert" button to start MOV to Nook Tablet conversion with the Mac video to Nook Tablet Converter.