MovieVision personal media player

Normally you'd find us drooling over the latest foreign gadget that will forever remain out of reach, but in the case of the $169 MovieVision PMP, the Japanese are welcome to keep this one all to themselves. While certainly pocketable at only 95 grams, the MovieVision could nonetheless never grace our collection due it's shoddy design that looks like a cobbled-together OEM universal remote. No internal storage means that MPEG-4, MP3, and WMA files must be played from an SD card (2GB max), with video viewable on the 2.5-inch screen. So do us a favor, and when you're gift shopping for us on Dynamism, pass this clunker over in favor of a sexy little ultra-light, m'kay?

[Gordy @ Dec 21st 2005 12:55PM]

Apparently it's so ugly, that you've spared us the horror by not posting a photo of it.



Thanks.

[Gordy @ Dec 21st 2005 1:05PM]

There it is...



Not ugly, but for 2.5" I'll stick with my iPod.

[Jayson Elliot @ Dec 21st 2005 1:09PM]

It's ugly, but at $169, I wouldn't mind one. I have a couple SD cards laying around anyway, so this beats the heck out of laying down $400 for something prettier.

[DM @ Dec 21st 2005 1:33PM]

Why do most of these products have some lame-ass thing written under the screen?



Eg: Cowon with "Color Sound"??! wtf...

[Goodman @ Dec 21st 2005 2:16PM]

Yeah, it's actually a pretty good deal for those of us with some extra SD cards to spare.

[Bruno Dieter Chan @ Dec 21st 2005 2:29PM]

Well actually I am reviewing (New Straits Times, Computimes, Malaysia) a the clone of that PMP (by www.dism.com a prototype test unit maybe[?] before they rebadge it with their own name) and the screen is OLED 262K, comes with 128mb onboard mem, has 2 ear speakers on the sides, can encode live with composite video/audio cables from tv/dvd player or whatever device with composite video and audio jacks.



It can also playout to any device with those jacks so you can share on the big screen with your friends instead of them violating your personal space.



You can see some pics of it here:



http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/scorping/album?.dir=6f1b&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/scorping/my_photos



Btw the movie encoded from DVD is the War Of THe Worlds. And you can also see the micky ears on the set.



Regards,



Bruno Dieter Chan.

[Balzac2m @ Dec 21st 2005 4:25PM]

Why do you guys hate players w/o internal storage so much?

Don't you buy Cameras with SD-Slots aswell? I dont want to buy a crapload of storage for every player and just throw it away afterwarsd