JVC Victor rolls out new Alneo XA-V series DAPs for Japan
By Donald Melanson 
posted Jun 11th 2008 8:54PM
posted Jun 11th 2008 8:54PM
It's been quite a while since we've seen one of JVC Victor's Aleno players, but it looks like the line is still going strong in Japan, where the company has just announced three new XA-V series models. Those include the XA-V80, XA-V40, and XA-V20, which come loaded with 8GB, 4GB, and 2GB of storage, respectively, and include a 2-inch, 220 x 176 display, JVC's proprietary "K2" audio-enhancing technology, and a promised 25 hours or so of battery life (or six doing video), among other fairly standard specs. Look for these to run you between $180 and $250 depending on the capacity, with each set to be available in your choice of blue, black, white or red when they land in early July.
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Looks like an ugly version of the old flash Gigabeats.
Between $180 and $250?
Not only do these things look like "LOUD" crap...they fail to recognize that there are around 1000 better options on the market.
at $199 you could get a Zune or an iPHONE.
When was the Zune available in Japan, Flashpoint?
This is JAPAN only product it seems, and stuff made for Japan is usually very good.
That is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen in my entire life. And yes I have looked in a mirror, it wasn't half as bad as the image above. Seems like old Victor has no sense of style or just didn't look into the design factor because he had money signs in his eyes. Well, that's what you get.
You're pretty ugly, then? I take it that's what you're getting at when you say you've looked in the mirror?
Uh what the FUCK? Did you even fucking read what I had to said? I was pre-preparing because I thought some noobs i.e. YOU with no ounce of humor would randomly come up with an unwitty assholish comment. Well done Asshole, you succeeded in that.
What happened to Victor; they used to make such awesome minidisc players. This thing is as ugly as all those no-name pmps!
Looks crap and tacky...
Her nails are too long...
... pencil dick?
I thought the company was called JVC (Japanese Victor Company)
WTF is JVC Victor?
Nails don't matter when you have a huge rack!
Anyway I missed out on commenting on the whole instinct VS iPhone... screw the iPhone, at least I can walk out the store with the instinct and not let some snotty teenager sales person unbox my phone for me...
Screw Victor and this crappy PMP
Made in China... Not Japan...
Come on guys, give grandpa a little tap on the bum, and someone smack that bitch into getting a manicure, or I'm shaving my head. Yes.
why would anyone buy this over the iPod?
Would would anyone buy an iPod to begin with?
ieye do you ever fucking shut the fuck up?
JVC? No thanks.
They don't seem to be very competitively priced. That audio enhancing watchamahoozit better be good. Not sure exactly how the audio is "enhanced," whatever that means, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's all marketing talk anyway. Maybe they make their own above-average audio processor or something.
Looks awfully similar to those Sony Ericsson W800i/K750i cell phones....
I don't mind fingers or nails but please save the plastic and tooling for the a real product.
Woulda been a lot nicer if they could have shown more of the model and less of that crap DAP. Even the Zune looks better than that. The Zune might not be any better but it does look better.
Victor = DEFEAT
is that the wax under the nail treatment?
What's up with that "read" link, anyway? The page was translated from Japanese, the page was translated from Japanese, the page was translated from Japanese, the page was translated from Japanese, the page was translated from Japanese-- and there's nothing on the page... sorry.
Am I the only one?
No, I'm getting it to. Is this some sort of prank?
The product info page shows up on my computer. Maybe you need to allow cookies or something to get it to show up?
It looks just like any other flash DAP, not necessarily ugly. I guess, to most people, anything other than a circular touchpad is considered ugly.
In Japan, though, I've noticed most of their mp3 players are made up of square buttons, like a cellphone (and like this one). Next to nothing in the shape of a circle or some "intuitive" interface.
I've never really found nails scary before.
Reply to Phanbouy;
Yea, when I'm done playing with your mom!
ieye:
what are you, 12? thanks for confirming that you're the biggest waste of humanity to pollute these boards though