 Audiovox PVR1000
Portable Video Recorder, MPEG4, Photo and MP3 Player
The Audiovox PVR1000 is your home away from home: a portable device capable of letting you enjoy your digital photos, digital music, and digital video through a standard headphone jack, a 2.5-inch TFT LCD screen, and a single onboard speaker. What's more, you can use the unit to record video programs from camcorder, VCR, television, or other sources for viewing at lunch, on the road, or on vacation. It'll serve nicely as a digital voice recorder with its own built-in condenser microphone. The PVR1000 offers 32 MB internal memory and an SD/MMC card port for expanding the unit's memory to a full gigabyte.
Compatible video formats include MPEG-4 video, JPEG images, and MP3 and WAV audio files, and supplied software helps you convert multiple video file formats to the MPEG-4-compatible ASF format. Hook it up to your PC--or, when using it as a mass-storage device, to your Macintosh computer, as well--using a standard USB interface.
Use it as an alarm clock and a calendar, or play games (tic-tac-toe, puzzle) on the bus or subway. Share photos with friends, colleagues, or family members. It's DPS-ready, too. That means you can print photos directly from the PVR1000 without ever attaching it to a computer. Shoot with your SD/MMC camera, view and print with the PVR1000--it's that simple.
Specifications
- Capacity: 32 MB onboard memory
- Flash-memory port: Yes (SD/MMC)
- Interface: USB
- Major functions: Digital photo player, digital video player, digital video recorder, digital voice player, digital voice recorder, MP3 player
- Playable media files: ASF (MPEG-4 video), JPEG (photo), MP3/WAV (audio)
- Display: 2.5-inch color TFT LCD (on/off selectable)
- Slide show mode: Yes
- Text display: Yes (but not MP3 ID3 tags)
- Speaker: 1
- Microphone: Built-in condenser
- Quality settings: Voice recording, audio/video recording: low, high
- TV system: NTSC/PAL
- Calendar: Yes
- Clock: Yes
- Games: Yes (tic-tac-toe, puzzle)
- Direct printer services (DPS): Supported
- Audio effects: Equalizer presets: Pop, Jazz, Classic, Bass, Rock
- Audio repeat: Yes (including A-B repeat looping)
- Audio inputs: 1 minijack .125-inch
- Video inputs: 1 minijack .125-inch composite-video (unified jack with audio input)
- Headphone jack: Yes (.125-inch)
- Hold switch: Yes
- Media-playing compatibility: Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
- Mass-storage compatibility: Windows 98SE/2000/Me/XP; Macintosh OS 9.X and 10.1 above
- Power source: Battery or AC/DC power adapter (supplied)
- Batteries: Rechargeable lithium-ion x1 (internal/supplied)
- Dimensions: 3" x 3.7 x 0.78"
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Reviewer:
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Sep 23, 2005 Customer Rating:
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This is nice.
You can record video (with good audio) at roughly 1.8M/min or 10M/min, the latter being very high quality, using variable bit rate determined by content.
That translates to almost a full 4 hours' worth per 512M SD card, which is easily burned to a CD. Or on DVD, get a minimum of 5 hours at the highest recording quality I've done (the US Open finals between Agassi and Fedderer). You can actually follow the tennis ball... clearly.
At much lower bitrates (BTW, it's always recording at QVGA, 30fps) for typical shows on t.v. gets me almost *44* hours when transfered to DVD. Double that for DL discs... And there's no need for conversion; recordings are in MPEG4 ASF format (photos in JPG).
My only complaints are the cheap speaker, which can be overcome by the use of headphones, and the fact you can't output to an external t.v. etc. Oh, and inserting or removing the SD card will turn the device off, but that's a minor irritant. |

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