Media player battle
Why pay for a dedicated media player when you could simply use a cell phone for both?
Why pay for a dedicated media player when you could simply use a cell phone for both?
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Media player battle
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Surprised that COWON is not mentioned.
Cowon has the best display for a PMP, short of Japanese cell phone displays like the Sharp 1024 by 480 or 864 by 480. My A3 has an 800 by 480 display in full 8 bit colour, fully adjustable in terms of gamma, contrast, brightness and colour. The Cowon A3 plays back
H.264 content (in more formats than iPhone/iPod), DivX (iPhone fail), xViD (iPhone fail), MJPEG (iPhone fail), MPEG2 (iPhone fail); audio - FLAC (iPhone fail) and others incl MP3 and of course can display JPEGS, BMPs and RAW files (iPhone fail).
AVI, WMV, MKV and MP4 wrappers are supported with soft subtitle support too.
It can record radio and TV (video in) at 30fps NTSC or 25 fps PAL and stereo sound.
It can play back 720p content (iPhone fail).
It can view MS Office, PDF and text files.
An add-on TV receiver DVB-T allows you to watch and capture TV.
The Cowon Q5W has WiFi, Internet browser and touch capability too.
Cowon has the best display for a PMP, short of Japanese cell phone displays like the Sharp 1024 by 480 or 864 by 480. My A3 has an 800 by 480 display in full 8 bit colour, fully adjustable in terms of gamma, contrast, brightness and colour. The Cowon A3 plays back
H.264 content (in more formats than iPhone/iPod), DivX (iPhone fail), xViD (iPhone fail), MJPEG (iPhone fail), MPEG2 (iPhone fail); audio - FLAC (iPhone fail) and others incl MP3 and of course can display JPEGS, BMPs and RAW files (iPhone fail).
AVI, WMV, MKV and MP4 wrappers are supported with soft subtitle support too.
It can record radio and TV (video in) at 30fps NTSC or 25 fps PAL and stereo sound.
It can play back 720p content (iPhone fail).
It can view MS Office, PDF and text files.
An add-on TV receiver DVB-T allows you to watch and capture TV.
The Cowon Q5W has WiFi, Internet browser and touch capability too.
diabolus
Executive Member
It's easy, i can't have my GPS [giving directions] -and- my music playing -and- typing a SMS/Browsing the web on one device at the same time 
. In fact that will kill your phone's battery so fast your head will spin . Nothing like watching a movie on your phone and the battery dying during a phone call [the primary reason you have a phone in the first place! ]
The more dedicated media devices is also very convenient to dock and hook up to a tv/hi-fi , where it's not always very practical with your phone [you still need to actually answer it when it rings] .
And of course, dedicated media players tend to be cheaper than a cellphone doing the same. Iphone is easily R8000+ , you can buy like 2-3 120GB+ Ipods for that price.
. In fact that will kill your phone's battery so fast your head will spin . Nothing like watching a movie on your phone and the battery dying during a phone call [the primary reason you have a phone in the first place! ] The more dedicated media devices is also very convenient to dock and hook up to a tv/hi-fi , where it's not always very practical with your phone [you still need to actually answer it when it rings] .
And of course, dedicated media players tend to be cheaper than a cellphone doing the same. Iphone is easily R8000+ , you can buy like 2-3 120GB+ Ipods for that price.
Empiricism Philosopher
Expert Member
Lap top still owns with skype wahaha.
I'm not really sure why you find it so amusing
but tbh I prefer using my phone's skype these days.Sting
Ghost in the Machine
Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer separate devices. I hate any phones so my E71 lurks somewhere in my home or office and when it rings someone else had better answer it 'cos I don't, unless it's a business call!!!
DavidKinnes
Well-Known Member
Flint
Well-Known Member
@diabolus That's exactly right, batteries just haven't kept up with functionality. I use My Nokia N96 as my primary music player (it's playing music 8-10 hours a day), gps, occasional internet device and of course phone. I've just accepted that I need a charger at home, at work (via USB) and in the car. If there is a single thing I would change about the phone, it would be a double or triple capacity battery!
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
until they come up with batteries that can run at full usage for 24 hours and ultra storage so that I don't have to pixellate the stuffing out of my media files, set top multimedia devices are still going to rule. I love my MviX.
I just got an Mvix 780HD with a Western Digital Terabyte Hard Drive for a friend for R3100.00 (new). Busy filling it up with stuff for them now.
I just got an Mvix 780HD with a Western Digital Terabyte Hard Drive for a friend for R3100.00 (new). Busy filling it up with stuff for them now.
So you lug that along with you together with a 10kg USB unit to get what-- 30 min of music.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
So you lug that along with you together with a 10kg USB unit to get what-- 30 min of music.
um, if you read my post you would see that it is not mine, I bought it from someone else. If you knew what an MviX is, you would know they are not portable, they sit next to your TV. Furthermore, the hard drive goes internally, no need for any "USB Unit". With a Terabyte hard drive they can fit approximately 12,500 hours of music on there.
But it is not just for music. It is more for videos.Maybe next time you should do some googling before you reply?
um, if you read my post you would see that it is not mine, I bought it from someone else. If you knew what an MviX is, you would know they are not portable, they sit next to your TV. Furthermore, the hard drive goes internally, no need for any "USB Unit". With a Terabyte hard drive they can fit approximately 12,500 hours of music on there.
Maybe next time you should do some googling before you reply?
I don't see your point - you said I should google what an MVIX is but surely my '10kg UPS' comment (it was not USB but UPS, and you should have realised I meant UPS not USB - what is a 10kg USB unit anyway) should have made you realise what I meant (a large non-portable mains powered device) - secondly I understood the original article to be about PORTABLE media players when compared to other portable devices namely CELL PHONES.
It may be that your comment was off topic.... but hey I just cracked a joke which you obviously missed. Don't roll your eyes too much, you don't want to sprain those extra-ocular eye muscles.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
um, sorry. I'm not responsible for your mistakes.
Don't expect me to follow your mixed up thinking.It may be that your comment was off topic.... but hey I just cracked a joke which you obviously missed. Don't roll your eyes too much, you don't want to sprain those extra-ocular eye muscles.
Seems like everybody these days is making jokes without a point or a punchline.
The point of the original article was to say that you should consider a portable device as a replacement for your media device. The point of my post was to show that portable devices are nowhere near as powerful as set top media players. Hence the Mvix. I don't need a portable device, I just need a powerful media player.my cellphone and my MP3 player are good enough as they are.
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um, sorry. I'm not responsible for your mistakes.
Seems like everybody these days is making jokes without a point or a punchline.
Does not compute.
I'll quote the conclusion:
The article has nothing to do with non-portable multimedia playback devices, it's comparing cell phones and their playback capabilities (video, pictures and audio) vs dedicated portable media players (such as Archos, Creative, iRiver).
I'm sorry but your MVIX comment is totally off topic. My joke was that you'd need a huge 10kg UPS unit to power that device if you wanted to take it on the road with you - and even then you'd get only 30 minutes out of it.
Don't be so defensive
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LazyLion
King of de Jungle
That doesn't surprise me!
The article has nothing to do with non-portable multimedia playback devices, it's comparing cell phones and their playback capabilities (video, pictures and audio) vs dedicated portable media players (such as Archos, Creative, iRiver).
I'm sorry but your MVIX comment is totally off topic. My joke was that you'd need a huge 10kg UPS unit to power that device if you wanted to take it on the road with you - and even then you'd get only 30 minutes out of it.
Don't be so defensive
I know what the article was comparing, my point was "most people these days are looking for something more powerful in a media player than a cellphone". My response was not off-topic. Off-topic would be the weight of yaks in Tibet in relation to burger eating Sumo-wrestlers. Media players are the topic on hand. It is not off-topic to talk about media players.
Who died and made you a mod anyway? Or do you just have some personal beef with me?
undefined
Well-Known Member
I buy content ( HD Movies / Movies / TV Shows / Music ) off iTunes. I plug my 16GB iPhone 3G via Component Cable straight into my HDTV and watch stuff off it.
Not ideal in terms of size but it's quite cool if I pop around to a friend, just tag the cable and phone along and voila we have a couple movies going.
The quality of the movies playing on the actual iPhone 3G itself is amazing as well, great for travelling.
Not ideal in terms of size but it's quite cool if I pop around to a friend, just tag the cable and phone along and voila we have a couple movies going.
The quality of the movies playing on the actual iPhone 3G itself is amazing as well, great for travelling.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
Those are MP4 format right? I have a friend who does that with his huge LCD TV. He says it's not the greatest, but watchable.
Anyway you use very liberal logic there to fit in the MVIX into that article.
Look I have no issue with OFF TOPIC posts but I cracked a joke regarding your comment (about a non-portable player in a thread which is about portable players vs [portable] cell phones). I meant that joke to be taken with a smile, it wasn't 'beef' against you. You responded with an eye-roll - obviously showing off your displeasure, hence I explained the joke to you and pointed out that the MVIX (a non portable device) is actually O/T for a post comparing portable devices against each other. You're again quite defensive. I have no beef with you mate and wish you a good Sat evening/Sunday.
No. The wrapper is QT (QuickTime) MOV and the codec is H.264.
MP4 would imply DivX or xViD as the codec, as iPhones only process H.264 AVC compressed video and not DivX/xViD encoded video streams.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
well, fortunately we can let the mods handle what is OT. I responded to the article with my preference. A preference that many others on this board have as well. Anyways, no harm done. Have a good Sunday.