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yeoamuca

11-10-2005, 03:42 PM

i was just wondering if there were any personal media players thay any of you recommend
i am looking to buy one and i want to know what kind people like

rspassey

11-10-2005, 04:20 PM

What budget? Ipods are popular - but I have/had no desire to go do mainstream. If you are looking for something to record and play TV programs and videos and music and store photos (all parts of what make up a media player) I would recomend the Lyra 2780 - incredible for its price and records from TV at superb quality for its size - with nice sized LCD and really good tv play back.
http://www.rcaaudiovideo.com/rca/demo/rd2780%20demo.html But it is a bit pricey.

catacon

11-10-2005, 07:18 PM

Depends on how much space your want. Like ryan said, Ipods are popular and are very good. Other choices would be the ZenMicro or Irivers.

thefultonhow

11-10-2005, 11:31 PM

A lot of the stuff by Archos is excellent. I like the AV500:

http://www.archos.com/products/av_500/

It's $650, though.

kram 2.0

11-10-2005, 11:37 PM

Creative also makes a good chunk of the portable media players out there.

http://creative.com/products/welcome.asp?category=210

kram

yeoamuca

11-11-2005, 08:34 AM

i guess my budget is probably somewhere around 500
and i like what im seeing so far

i dont think i want to go with an ipod
they require the use of the mac video file
i want something a little more versitile

yeoamuca

11-11-2005, 08:41 AM

im also realizing now that there are more of these out there than i thought
i think my choice is getting harder haha

thefultonhow

11-11-2005, 05:48 PM

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=401015&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation

rspassey

11-11-2005, 05:55 PM

The Archos is certainly nice - but a little bulky - might not fit into your pocket if you want to use it to listen to music on. but otherwise I would make that a choice at the top of my list if I was in the market for one.

thefultonhow

11-11-2005, 06:10 PM

OH, BTW, my friend got that RCA Lyra, and it didn't work too well. Granted, that was about three years ago and they've doubtless improved the firmware since then, but it was very limited in what it could play back and the UI was reeally buggy.

rspassey

11-11-2005, 06:13 PM

That is odd - I got mine about three years ago; and have had no issues what so ever except a few time where songs have skipped, but I realized that happened only when battery life was near nothing, and I shrugged it off. Keeping up with the firmware has most likely improved the UI and everything has run faster (a lot faster ) since I updated it again last night.

Jaggannath

11-12-2005, 12:05 AM

I've got a Conia, it's good

yeoamuca

11-14-2005, 10:24 AM

does anyone know anything about the iriver pmp
my roomate said he heard they are pretty good
and they play divx codec movies

also i went to best buy and tried a couple
the new ipod is really nice and small but i just dont really like it
plus you have to convert all the video

the archos is really nice

and so is the rca

this is definently a tough choice