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MP3 and Video Players: Recommendations.
Dublo7
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Hey guys,
My iPod mini seems to be failing a bit (after all we've been through
), and I'm thinking it's time for a new player.
I think I'm sort of done with iPods. I want something that plays AVI files.
So far, my current possible choices are;
1) Cowon D2
Has touch screen, tv out, divx support, and SD card expansion.
The only problem is it only has 4GB built in memory.
2) Creative Zen Vision M
Great price, large capacity, divx support.
My only beef with this, is the screen may be a little bit small?
3) Creative Zen Vision
Large capacity, divx, bigger screen
Has anyone used any of these, or would you have any alternatives?
I'm sort of leaning towards the Zen Vision, as I reckon it looks super freaking hot.
The Cowon really looks great, but as I said, it has a small hard drive
My iPod mini seems to be failing a bit (after all we've been through
), and I'm thinking it's time for a new player.I think I'm sort of done with iPods. I want something that plays AVI files.
So far, my current possible choices are;
1) Cowon D2
Has touch screen, tv out, divx support, and SD card expansion.
The only problem is it only has 4GB built in memory.
2) Creative Zen Vision M
Great price, large capacity, divx support.
My only beef with this, is the screen may be a little bit small?
3) Creative Zen Vision
Large capacity, divx, bigger screen
Has anyone used any of these, or would you have any alternatives?
I'm sort of leaning towards the Zen Vision, as I reckon it looks super freaking hot.
The Cowon really looks great, but as I said, it has a small hard drive
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It seems the Zune and iPod are the only ones that can't do it now.
edit - I just saw this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpXW3hnd7F0
I must say... the D2 looks incredible. I love that UI so much.
Argh... small memory
But with these, at the very least there's a decent chance your stuff will just play on it, whereas the Zune and iPod don't have support at all.
Agreed. That is a nice player and add in the SDHC slot and you're set.
The D2 has a SD card slot so you can always expand the memory.
http://www.woot.com/
£50 for 20gb? Ye gods. Makes everything else horrific.
I've got a cheap iRiver player myself, and I'm pretty happy with it. It's only got 512M of storage, but it definitely gets the job done. I wanted to get a Clix to give myself a little extra room for songs, but it's a purchase that will have to wait until the end of this semester.
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About that Woot, http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11501 talks about many problems people have had with that player. I'd think long and hard about that before buying it. Granted, $99 is a nice price, but if it's crap, it doesn't matter how cheap it is.
Personally, I've been looking very hard at that iAudio D2. The screen is absolutely fantastic (16 million colors ftw!) and a great size. The newest models have only 4GB built in, but it has an SD slot that supports SDHC, so you can upgrade the memory quite a bit.
iAudio is a really great, unknown, brand. My brother owns an older player from them, the X5 and he absolutely loves it. In fact, a lot of Audiophiles love it because of the great sound quality. It's not very good for movie playback.
If you want more of a portable movie player instead of a music player, the iAudio A2 (a new version, the A3 is coming out in 6 months or so) is also very nice.
Really, it comes down to a couple of choices:
1) What should be the focus? Movies or music?
2) How much space do you want?
2a) Flash memory or hard disk?
3) Cost
Flash memory players are generally cheaper (because they have lower capacity), but hard drive players hold more. If you look for a flash player that's upgradable with SD cards (or I've seen ones that can take compactflash too), you could make due with that. And SDHC can go up to 32GB (eventually).
If I had the money, I'd go for either the A2 or the D2. iAudio makes some nice stuff. If you get an A2 from their online store (http://www.jetmall.net), you get a free MP3 player.
http://iaudiophile.net is also a good site for iAudio stuff.
Let me know if you add me, and I'll add you back. (I'm also on the Roster)
I have an ancient AV420, and it's fantastic (use an iPod as my main mp3 player)
Oh well, it's still a really good player.
One thing to look out for is that Cnet reviews are all over the map, a lot of people have very different experiences than what the Cnet people say. I generally go there and watch the video reviews (to see how the thing looks in person) and to read other's comments.
Cruise those forums I listed, the anything but ipod ones have some very good discussions on different players versus others.
Let me know if you add me, and I'll add you back. (I'm also on the Roster)
Instead of that, get the Cowon A2. It's JetAudio, but has a bigger hard drive (30GB). I have it and it's the tits after the firmware update. Plays XVID, DIVX, MOV, OGG, MP3, etc. Worth it.
Newegg is out of them, but they're at other places too. Here's the stats:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16855603835
Wii Code: 1040-1320-0724-3613 :!!:
The only thing is, apparently the A3 is coming out soon?
The A2 is also rather expensive. But then again, most Cowon players are.
Kinda.
You can grab any mp4 video and stick it into the zune software and it'll convert it to wmv automatically. The zune itself just can't play mp4 videos by itself.
Which really sucks, cause I can't think of many people who actually have their videos in wmv format.
A couple of guys from the old 360 megathread converted their stuff to .WMV for streaming to their 360s.