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X2 MEGA View 566 20 GB Portable Media Player
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List Price: $449.95
Features
• Up to 3 hours video playback battery life or 8 hours for audio
• Weighs just 8.5 ounces
• Record and watch movies, TV shows and videos, listen to MP3/WMA songs, view photos and store and transport data
• 20GB internal storage capacity
• Stores up to 80 hours of video, 10,000 songs and/or 100,000 photos
• Record and watch movies, TV shows and videos, listen to MP3/WMA songs, view photos and store and transport data
• 20GB internal storage capacity
• Stores up to 80 hours of video, 10,000 songs and/or 100,000 photos
• Up to 3 hours video playback battery life or 8 hours for audio
• Weighs just 8.5 ounces |
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X2 MEGA View 566 20 GB Portable Media Player description
Combining the features of an audio media player and recorder, a video viewer and recorder, and a flash-memory viewer and backup device, MSI's Mega View 566 takes portable media entertainment to the next level. You want storage? Try 20 GB built-in memory. Now you can transfer video, music, and pictures from your PC using a high-speed USB 2.0 interface (cable provided; USB 1.1 compatible) and enjoy your media while you're on the bus, on the subway, at a hotel, or simply kicking back at work on your lunch break. The Mega View 566 also features an SD/MMC flash-memory slot so you can read the video/audio/photo files directly off your camera or a friend's PC. You can use the flash-memory port for speedy file back ups, too. The Mega View 566 handles just about every media format under the sun, from MPEG-4, DivX (3.11/4.x/5.x), motion JPEG, and WMV-9 video playback to MP3, MPEG 1 Layer 2, linear PCM, ADPCM, and WMA-9 audio files to JPEG, GIF, BMP, and TIFF photos. It even records audio-visual content in real time via its stereo audio/composite-video input jack. Just connect the supplied AV cable, and with one touch you can easily record your favorite shows from TV, VHS, or DVD (where copy protection allows). Its onboard FM radio offers up to 8 station presets for 1-button tuning to your favorites. You can also record voice as well as FM radio programs as audio files. The Mega View 566's voice-recording function is easy to use and ideal for recording meetings, lectures, and voice. (There's even a microphone input in case you already have a high-quality external mic.) You'll enjoy great-looking images on its backlit, crystal-clear 3.5-inch color TFT LCD. The unit's rechargeable lithium-ion battery provides 8 hours of audio playback and about 3.5 hours of video playback per charge. What's in the Box Portable AV player, hand strap, stereo headphones, an AC power adapter, an audio/video input cable, a USB cable, a tripod, a remote control, a remote battery, a carry bag, a driver and recovery CD, a user's manual, and warranty information. |
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X2 MEGA View 566 20 GB Portable Media Player Customer Reviews
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Great for a lot of things
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The Mega View 566 does alot of great things. I purchased it primarily because it has direct A/V recording capabilities meaning you don't have to necessarily convert videos on your computer and do alot of file fiddling.
If you plug this unit directly into a television or tivo, it is exactly as advertisted. You just plug it in, hit record and you're good to go.
DVDs, downloaded DivX movies and even VHS prerecorded flicks can be a different story. Copy protection on DVDs and prerecorded VHS tapes can really get in the way. As stated in an earlier review, though, you can buy the DVD2Go unit to bypass copy protection. I'll probably be purchasing one of these in the near future.
I'm not a technophobe by any means, but I have had problems with downloaded DivX movies and DVD content that has been ripped to a computer. I haven't been able to figure out how to get the audio and video to sync. Certainly, there is a way to do this effectively. I just haven't wanted to spend the time to learn to do it properly. For me, ripping/downloading files and then spending time converting them is just too much work.
My guess is that Personal Video Players will make some strides in the future to make this process easier, but if you really have an itch to get something now, I think the Mega View 566 is as good as any unit out there.
Concerning the MP3 player, it's true that the unit has problems with copy protected songs. All of my songs are ripped directly from CD, though, and it works flawlessly. The audio sounds good and while it may not have some of the snazzy playlist features of an iPod, for general use it's a great unit with plenty of storage space.
I have played around with the FM tuner a little bit and it seems to me that if FM radio is really what you want, just go buy a walkman. The unit does what it says it does, but it's really just an add on feature.
Video quality has been knocked by some reviewers, but if you think about it, you're watching personal video on a very small screen. Yes, you can see the individual pixels if you look for them, but it's really not an issue unless you are a videophile. I would think, for most folks, watch it for a couple of minutes and you won't even notice the pixels.
Overall, I'm very pleased with the unit and I would buy it again. I like to watch TV when I'm going to sleep, but my wife hates having the TV on. I can put in the headphones, use the mini tripod to sit the unit on the night stand and watch whatever I feel like without interrupting her.
I primarily use the Mega View as a portable tivo. I tivo all of my favorite sitcoms, movies, etc. and then record them onto the portable unit to watch later.
I know this isn't Mega View's fault, but if there was a built in way to get around the copy protection I would give it 5 stars. It burns a little bit to have to buy another piece of equipment to copy my DVDs over, but that's what pirates have brought us to.
As a side note, I've noticed that some of my cheap-o DVD's (like the ones you buy at Wal Mart for $3 of really old movies) don't have copy protection and work just fine. |
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