Well Look What Showed Up on my Doorstep…
July 18th, 2006 Jason Dunn
Late last week, a package showed up on my doorstep, courtesy of some people at Microsoft: a Toshiba Gigabeat S, the 30 GB model. I’ll be doing a detailed review in a series of short articles, each one delving into a particular aspect of the player: the out-of-box experience, the hardware, the media playback experience, battery life, etc. If you have any questions you’d like me to answer as I do the review, please post a comment to this thread and I’ll try to address them in my review. I probably won’t start the review until next week: this week it’s all about the Qtek 8500 as a music phone and a look at the 1 GB Sandisk microSD card.
Entry Filed under: Portable Media Center
5 Comments
1. Darius Wey | July 18th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Awesome. Looks great.
A couple of questions:
(1) What aspects of the PMC interface do you like, dislike, feel could be improved, etc.?
(2) What is the sound quality like? How does it compare with other MP3 players and PMCs that you own or have tried in the past?
2. Rensul | July 18th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
Can you look into how the TV output works? Essentially, I’m interested in knowing if the entire UI is output to the TV or just the video when it’s playing.
Thanks!!
3. Damion Chaplin | July 24th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
I would like to know about its video capabilities. How easy is it to rip a DVD to it? How about converting an AVI or MPEG?
It says it supports Media Center recording, but what exactly does that mean?
4. drummrsanonymous | July 25th, 2006 at 9:24 am
How easy/difficult is it to get podcasts (audio and video) onto the device?
What about simplicity in organizing/tagging your library and getting it on the device?
I’m an iPod owner thinking about switching to this player rather than getting a new iPod, so any comparisons to iPod/iTunes would be extrenely great for me.
5. Jason Dunn | July 31st, 2006 at 9:59 am
Thanks for the great questions everyone, I’ll be looking at the Gigabeat S this coming week…