trustedreviews.com— Mini Player PMP is everything the iPod Video should be: FM tuner, MP3 and OGG playback, and Xvid video. With 20 HOURS of battery life and a hot little screen. Should add more HD capacity though...
May 30, 2006View in Crawl 4
There is. 480 lines of horizontal resolution is the standard. Most commonly in a 4:3/1.33:1 aspect ratio, though 16:9 is becoming increasingly popular.
Maybe the both of you aren't sophisticated enough to be able to like a companies products without being their tools on message boards.I do not spout anti-Apple diatribes. All I do is point out the hypocrisy and double standards of Fankids such as yourselves, and that only appears as anti-Apple. When you let Apple slide on something you would'nt let MS slide on, I point it out, and you cant stand it. Oh well! Oh , I don't have to defend myself from half-assed retorts, I pointed out the flaw in a fanboys argument that I have some hatred for Apple and he seems to think that is a smoke screen. Whatever that is supposed to mean.In the world of the Apple fanboy, truth is not a valued commodity.
The thing only have up to 4 gigs... How do you expect to put more than a few of your 640x480 XviD movies on this? I guess you'd have to transcode it to a smaller size to minimize the file size. If you have to transcode your video files anyway, the fact that it supports XviD becomes irrelevant, transcoding to .mp4 or .h264 for an iPod would be the same thing. And the last time I checked, XviD devices cannot be sold in the US.
To clear up some confusion, if you check out iRiver's website, you'll find a firmware update to allow UMS transfers for Linux and Mac compatibility. There's also a utility to convert video to the 15 fps MPG4 format that the player allows.
here is a quote from the article:"The %u2018Mini Player%u2019 snatches Apple styling left, right, left and right again and centre"Well what do you know, another has stolen from the Ipod "snarky" comment from a supposedly impartiall reviewer. What the hell is the point of reading the rest when the tool who wrote it knocks in down in that typical fanboy fashion? Don't bother looking at playerX because it stole everything from the Ipod. If you bothered to read the article instead of just s**tting yourself because someone said something less than 100% positive about your beloved Ipod, you would have caught that."You keep old Apple computers around because you like to look at them? And we're the Apple fanboys?"Sigh. I also have many other examples of well design products.That'ss what you do when you love graphic/industrial design. You have a habit of collecting good examples of such. But I'm sure that goes right over your head also. It is also obvious you have no idea what a fanboy is. That happens when you live in an Apple echo chamber. You tend to think that everyone thinks like you. But in the real world people "Think Differentt".
jasonpriniMay 31, 2006
I'd get one of these over an iPod any day.I've got 2 iPods and have never ever felt the urge to buy music from ITMS. DRM is dog poo on my ice cream.
rndm_tngntMay 31, 2006
There is. 480 lines of horizontal resolution is the standard. Most commonly in a 4:3/1.33:1 aspect ratio, though 16:9 is becoming increasingly popular.
Closed AccountMay 31, 2006
Maybe the both of you aren't sophisticated enough to be able to like a companies products without being their tools on message boards.I do not spout anti-Apple diatribes. All I do is point out the hypocrisy and double standards of Fankids such as yourselves, and that only appears as anti-Apple. When you let Apple slide on something you would'nt let MS slide on, I point it out, and you cant stand it. Oh well! Oh , I don't have to defend myself from half-assed retorts, I pointed out the flaw in a fanboys argument that I have some hatred for Apple and he seems to think that is a smoke screen. Whatever that is supposed to mean.In the world of the Apple fanboy, truth is not a valued commodity.
vtwinMay 31, 2006
The thing only have up to 4 gigs... How do you expect to put more than a few of your 640x480 XviD movies on this? I guess you'd have to transcode it to a smaller size to minimize the file size. If you have to transcode your video files anyway, the fact that it supports XviD becomes irrelevant, transcoding to .mp4 or .h264 for an iPod would be the same thing. And the last time I checked, XviD devices cannot be sold in the US.
pirateninjaMay 31, 2006
To clear up some confusion, if you check out iRiver's website, you'll find a firmware update to allow UMS transfers for Linux and Mac compatibility. There's also a utility to convert video to the 15 fps MPG4 format that the player allows.
Closed AccountMay 31, 2006
here is a quote from the article:"The %u2018Mini Player%u2019 snatches Apple styling left, right, left and right again and centre"Well what do you know, another has stolen from the Ipod "snarky" comment from a supposedly impartiall reviewer. What the hell is the point of reading the rest when the tool who wrote it knocks in down in that typical fanboy fashion? Don't bother looking at playerX because it stole everything from the Ipod. If you bothered to read the article instead of just s**tting yourself because someone said something less than 100% positive about your beloved Ipod, you would have caught that."You keep old Apple computers around because you like to look at them? And we're the Apple fanboys?"Sigh. I also have many other examples of well design products.That'ss what you do when you love graphic/industrial design. You have a habit of collecting good examples of such. But I'm sure that goes right over your head also. It is also obvious you have no idea what a fanboy is. That happens when you live in an Apple echo chamber. You tend to think that everyone thinks like you. But in the real world people "Think Differentt".
Closed AccountAug 26, 2006
At least I love me. And I've never found a radio station that's owned by a corporation. You must live in Bangalore.