The
video watch craze seems to be catching on, as what was once an oddity has now started to
grow us just a bit, and while we can't deny the arguably
appalling nature of rocking an LCD screen on your wrist, the latest option most definitely goes for broke. Hey, if you're going to go, you might as well go all out, and by slapping a wristwatch on your arm with a prominent 1.8-inch "widescreen" display front and center, you'll certainly be catching a few eyes for better or worse. This Chinavision
timepiece boasts 2GB of internal memory, supports MP3, WMA, and WAV music formats, handles MTV video files care of a software conversion, a JPEG photo / text viewer, internal speaker, USB 2.0 connectivity, FM radio, voice recorder, six equalizer settings, and a 3.5-millimeter headphone jack to boot. Of course, glancing back at the less-than-sexy design can quickly wipe away the pros that this thing surely has going for it, but for just over $56, the CVESG-S818-2 still looks mighty tempting.
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posted Apr 18th 2007 11:29AM
Yeah it can do all that but can it tell time?
2GB is not enough for videos!
It's a great idea and all,but you need bigger screens to watch videos,but its already too big I think.I'd never wear that.So actually its not such a good idea...
the mtv formati s a vformat version that compresses highly. dont get your banana in a bunch.
2GB is enough if it plays MPEG4. A VCD holds a 2-hour movie in
At the resolution of the 1.4" screen, you could probably get 3 or 4 movies on a 2 gig watch. I've gotten 3 movies on my Nintendo DS using the M3 DS Simply and a 2 gig microSD card.
and WHy is that considered widescreen?
Maybe they call it a "widescreen" because it is wider than it is tall. It looks to me to be about at least 4:3 but no more than 14:9.
Maybe I don't understand the term, but did anybody notice it is an "MP4 Player" but MP4 is not listed as a supported format?
all formats are wider than they are tall.... MTV is a form of mp4
But EVERYONE wants a TV watch! Oh Dick Tracey...
That looks like a ton of fun to play with, but I'm unconvinced of it's practicality.
Good for impressing chicks in the night club, otherwise I do not think it will compete anyhow with a smartphone or PDA-phone or blackberry.
UNLESS, it will be made a smartphone. Then I will think about it, as it might be convenient when driving.
"while we can't deny the arguably appalling nature of rocking an LCD screen on your wrist"
Typo or Freudian slip?
a novelty item at a novel price. I'll take it.
Plastic writs straps (a la 80's wrist calculators) will Never be cool no matter what they're attached to.
That orientation looks far from widescreen to me. Unless this is the old model.
Funny, my 80's wrist calculator had a metal wrist strap. I much prefer plastic, as it doesn't rip the hair out of your arm as you walk.
...and since it's a watch, you can just switch wrists when your other hand gets too tired.
That's a pr0n joke.
Seriously, though. I'll give $100 to the first guy who gets punched for wearing one of these.
Don't those MTV files take up more space at a lower resolution than the original Divx, Xvid, or MPEG-4 files? From what I remember they're not truly any compression, its like a video JPEG w/sound.
Yeah, holding my arm in watch-looking position while watching a movie really doesn't sound like fun.
KITT, where are you? Get in here now!!!
Actually, MTV video format is pretty my shit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_MP4/MTV_Player#MTV_Video_Format
Sounds to me like the manufacturers figured it was cheaper to buy more flash than to include a decent hardware video decoder. The way I read that, it's about as ghetto as a video format can be -- they don't even compress the frames, it's just H x W x BPP, so it comes out to like 12-15 megs per minute, for incredibly low resolution.
Speaking of which... can anybody find a complete specs page for this thing? I was wondering what resolution that screen is. I guess if it's 1.8 inches across the diagonal, even 128x128 or whatever would look pretty good...
WTF? "pretty my shit"? Obviously, I meant "pretty shitty". Oops.
Anyway, I also meant to point out that at 15 megs per minute, you'd get just over two hours of video in 2GB, and possibly less after format losses.
Wow, what a piece of shit.
The obviously copied Apple.
Ya know, nothing screams "I'm a loner geek that might just go HongKongPhooey-postal pumping rounds into college students" quite like a freaking TV on your wrist.
This might be fine to wear by mainland China peoples since a TV-watch couldn't make them any MORE lame than they already are in scurrying around with those white SARS-phobia masks over their faces.
What the fuck is this bitch (Amrita Arora doing on the watch?)
Yeh, its a pretty darn neat watch, no one can believe their eyes when I show it to them, got the 4gig at section9tech.com good way to pass time haha
I have this in the 4gb flavor. Does exactly what it says it does and although the navigation is pretty horrific, the only real problem I have with it is that the screen only has two brightness settings, which are backlit and on, or completely off so nothing is displaying. To make it worse, it turns off the screen automatically after about 10 seconds of idleness and there don't seem to be any options to change that. For the price though, yeah it's a very impressive little gadget so, don't listen to all the negative comments from people who don't even own one.
I also have the 4GB version. I agree with Tak about the awkward navigation. There is a setting to keep the screen display on longer than 10 sec, but it doesn't seem to work.
It's fun but looks, well, nerdy.
And the worst of it is, the only way to actually see the TIME is to press the power button briefly when the device is turned off. That shows you the date and time for 10 seconds. There is no way to get the time to display for any longer period.
And, when you turn the watch on (to access audio, video, FM functions), there is no way to get to the time display without powering down the watch first.
The earlier version of this watch(square screen, no builtin speaker) at least reverted to the clock face display after a brief period, regardless of what function you were in.
And the manual is written in 6 point type, awkwardly translated into english. I had to enlarge the manual on a photocopier to read it.
It's a nice idea but needs more work to be anything more than a flash in the pan novelty
I've just purchased this item and have been trying unsuccessfully to load a movie. I'm running Vista (if it matters). Included conversion software refuses to convert on any computer from any format. My test movie is one I got to go from DVD to mpeg but can't seem to get it into .MTV. Any suggestions you could offer?
Hi, i bought this watch.
My problem is that woks bad, because the usb is "unlink" every 1 or 2 minutes... knows someone how can i change the firmware or a link where download it?
Thanks far all