Smart Shape, Touch comfortable, Full-Speed USB 2.0 Function
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Super Size 1.8" Full-Color TFT Display, MP3/MP4, JPG/BMP/GIF, WMA/Movie, Photo/Picture Player, Exclusive AMV High-Clarity Video Engine
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Support Audio Formats: MP3, WMA, OGG, WMV, ASF, WAV Powerful Automatic & Manual Scanning of FM Stereo Radio Channels, capacity of 20 memories of different local Radio stations
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Supports JPG\BMP\GIF Picture & Photo files
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CD direct-recording function -- record your favourite songs into MP3 format
Beware of hacked MemoryAugust 30, 2008 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This player is very small much smaller than the picture makes it look like. For me this was not a problem, actually I like that. The menu are slow to react, not a big problem, but if you have had a faster player you might be annoyed. The screen quality is not great but not horrible, for such a small screen and price range. In other words is adequate. Mine came with a Silicon cover, you can find them at eBay for this player. Search for MP4 silicon cover. A silicon cover could help protect your player and it's screen. I compared screens with my friend's LG phone and the screen it's just no way near as good as his 50 bucks phone. Maybe not a fair comparison but I also compared it to an old no name brand 1GB MP4 and that old one had better screen quality. My old player also had a SD card slot, very handy. However, my old one died, I try to install a lanyard and used a metal pin, it went into the player by mistake,lol and I shorted. It's now in MP4 AKA Chipods' heaven. The player reviewed here does not have a SD card slot, then again I thought I was getting a 4GB player and that most likely would have been enough, I'll explain next. The biggest problem I had was with the actual memory, it was sold to me as a 4GB MP4 but it's a hacked 2GB Player. Many of these China made MP4 are hacked (ALL SIZE HAVE BEEN REPORTED HAS HACKED). How do I know? I started to have problems when the content in my MP4 exceeded 2GB. I did a search on line and came upon a fact about many of these Chipods player from China. A lot of them are hacked to seem bigger than their actual size. As a matter of fact I found on line a site that is to report hacked Chipods to ebay and ask eBay to track down these seller. I signed it, maybe it will help someone later. Windows would read mine bigger than it really is in my case it read it as a 4GB when in reality is a 2GB. So, when you reach their true max you may begin to experience some problems with them and, for what I have read, it shortens their lives. Some may even go for a while before acting up. Here is a link to find out if yours is a hacked mp4: http://www.mympxplayer.org/how-to-removing-memory-hack-vt2400.html . Check it out, specially if you already have one and like it to have a long happy life. Maybe you can get at least a partial refund, I did. Once I removed the hack it worked well but I lost the games it had in it. The menu will still be there, it won't be removed by removing the hack. It will also remove your music and for that matter anything you've added to the Chipod, so back it up.
Adding music is easy, converting videos is another matter But not impossible. I would recommend to anyone having problems installing videos to Google it (use Chipod, MP4 from china, etc), rather than using the lame manual. In short your movies/video need to be in FLV, the format used a lot by YouTube, or AVI. I use a free software called BAMVC for converting to amv. To convert to AVI if your movies/video are not in that format you'll need a different software. I'm using Xilisoft for that. Works well and fairly fast,nevertheless not free. With BAMVC I chose the size of the screen and resolution. I selected for this Chipod 1.5 to 1.8 at max resolution and it works well. I will most likely buy another MP4 or wait for the MP5 to come down in price. I would like the next player to have a SD card slot, a Bigger screen (at least 2.5"), a 3.5" audio jack, for better sound and of course more memory.
Now that it works well, after the hack removal,a big complaint is the sound quality. My wife has a simple MP3 only player made by PQI called the Joytone and it sounds so much better than this. Amazinly, it cost her 19 bucks out the door. It uses a SD Card, which it comes with a 2GB card. We figured if it stinks we'll at least have a 2GB card for our digital camera. Back to the Chipod, as mentioned the player's sound quality is not very good at all. I tried upgrading the headset, with the included audio jack converter from 2.5 to 3.5 standard, but it's still not good a bit better with the originals. Yet the after matket Headset work fantastic with my wife's Joytune of course her MP3 has the standard 3.5" audio jack.
My second gripe is the memory size. Mine ended up being a true 2Gb after removing the hack just like the one advertised here, if the one sold here really is a 2GB. I had in mind adding a couple of movies/half hour shows, my music, eBooks and Podcast for the road but specially for our doctor's appointments. I figured I needed 1.5GB for music more or less and the rest for tv shows, movies, podcast and even eBooks. But with 2Gb I have to constantly remove music for adding video shows, depending how long I think I'll be at the doctor's office,lol
Podcats is my next honorable mention, adding Podcast was not an easy task in windows. Since I had never done it before it was an unfamiliar task to me and like anything new it takes time to learn. I ended up using my Linux/Ubuntu system to add podcast with Rhythbox 0.11.5, works intuitively. I have not used my Windows XP for it, Just to lazy besides it already work easily in Ubuntu. Recently, a friend told me he found a program called Juice to add podcast to his genetic MP3 player in Windows XP, which by the way also works for Linux since is Open Source. You go figure! Open Source to the rescue!!!,lol Thank God for Those people working hard to offer free stuff such as applications and Operating Systems. A big thanks to them all!!! Nevertheless, I have not use it in Windows but he claims it's easy.
Last but not least, I have added .txt files (ebooks) and they are crappy, meaning I can't read them correctly at all. Maybe that's another Google search for later. Perhaps I need something I'm not aware of. So far eBooks is the only thing I have been unable to use correctly. I have not put the time necessary to solve the problem. Maybe later I'll figure it out!
Good, but you do need to read the manual RTFM!May 8, 2008 12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I read a few other reviews on this item and I found them accurate for the most part.
This is a nice little unit, very small and lightweight.
The interface is not intuitive. It is hard to work with and requires reading the manual for the most part. The software is translated from another language and the translation didn't come across well.
This unit is feature-packed. (In reading the manual I found out it even has Karaoke)
The blackout mode after 9 seconds is annoying. To turn it off, Menu->Setup->LCD Set->Black, set it to 0. (This is an example of bad translation, I probably would've chosen "Blackout" or "Blank Mode" or "Timeout" or "Power Save")
Another poster commented on needing the smaller earphones for this. I bought mine from Pro_eb and it included a converter so standard earphones can be used.
Contents in the box from seller Pro_eb: 1 MP3 player 1 Mini-USB to USB cable 1 Power to USB converter (for wall charging) 1 Manual (RTFM) 1 Pink shiny carrying bag (quickly hidden to avoid ridicule from my teenage son) 1 Stereo earphone headset with built-in volume control 1 Stereo jack converter (from little to standard headphone size)
Seriously, if you do not believe in reading the manual, do not buy this.
Needs FW ImprovementsApril 11, 2008 2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This product is nice and slim, plays well too. However, I have noticed some bugs with the FW, and some items that I have seen in other, equally priced players.
While reading text files, at times the formating goes heywire and treats whole sections of text as a single line, that cannot be read.
When going through directories/files, the selected directory does not scroll so that the entire title can be read.
I live in a dry region. It seems that these players are sensitive to ESD. Luckily, the vendor (Pro_eb) did a wonderful job of replacing the one that was zapped.
For the price, not bad, but could use improvements.
Fast delivery, exclenet product and great supportApril 5, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I liked this product a lot. My sons have downloaded a lot of Music, video clips. For the service support and quickly atention I will definitly recommend to anyone. I found this current company is very responsible and helpful.
Nice little player with all the functions you needMarch 14, 2008 6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I liked this item a lot. It is so small that you can carry around it easily in your pocket. Yet, it has a 1.8 inch large screen, which makes watching a video clip easy. I have downloaded several video clips from youtube and converted to the AMV format using the included software. The resolution is not the best but definitly reasonable. For that price, I will definitly recommend to anyone. Also, I realized that the company that is selling the products under the same post changes constantly. I found this current company is very responsible and helpful.
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