radioheadrule83
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PLAY YAN
Would anyone else be interested in this device if it wasn't selling on import sites for £40 / $69? Sometimes higher? If you check out the price details below, you'll see it should be a little cheaper.
Personally, I've got SD cards from cameras and such lying about the place that I could use straight away. No additional purchase necessary. And 512MB cards are only about £40 now. You can find them for less sometimes. 1GB cards should be coming down in the next year hopefully too.
It has it's own headphone output for better sound on the GBA, and it works on DS. I'm interested... but the unit along with any kind of decent storage space would set me back at least £80 on top of what I've just paid for the DS. So I'm not interested enough to buy. Especially as it'd only get watched (for the most part) on the train and on the crapper. But if they made it cheaper... hmmmmmm
I know the PSP has a much bigger screen at higher resolution, so that'd obviously be a better choice for some people - but even then, people have still gotta encode videos themselves and buy a memory stick. It's that or official UMD movies right? I won't be getting a PSP til April or May, if I get one... and even then, I'm probably not gonna go out buying a media format that none of my other home-products use
I wish all these companies like Creative, Apple etc would get on creating a really nice video-player with decent storage. Thought I'd see if anyone's interested anyway. It's out soon....
Release date: February 21 (Japan)
Specs:
^^ 2 or 3 hours is enough for most movies that aren't Lord of the Rings
PRICE: (approximations)
Play-Yan:
¥5000 JPY
$49 USD
$59 CAD
37 EUR
£25 GBP
$62 AUD
Play-Yan with MediaStage 4.2 conversion software:
¥6000 JPY
$58 USD
$72 CAD
45 EUR
£31 GBP
$74 AUD
Would anyone else be interested in this device if it wasn't selling on import sites for £40 / $69? Sometimes higher? If you check out the price details below, you'll see it should be a little cheaper.
Personally, I've got SD cards from cameras and such lying about the place that I could use straight away. No additional purchase necessary. And 512MB cards are only about £40 now. You can find them for less sometimes. 1GB cards should be coming down in the next year hopefully too.
It has it's own headphone output for better sound on the GBA, and it works on DS. I'm interested... but the unit along with any kind of decent storage space would set me back at least £80 on top of what I've just paid for the DS. So I'm not interested enough to buy. Especially as it'd only get watched (for the most part) on the train and on the crapper. But if they made it cheaper... hmmmmmm
I know the PSP has a much bigger screen at higher resolution, so that'd obviously be a better choice for some people - but even then, people have still gotta encode videos themselves and buy a memory stick. It's that or official UMD movies right? I won't be getting a PSP til April or May, if I get one... and even then, I'm probably not gonna go out buying a media format that none of my other home-products use
I wish all these companies like Creative, Apple etc would get on creating a really nice video-player with decent storage. Thought I'd see if anyone's interested anyway. It's out soon....
Release date: February 21 (Japan)
Specs:
^^ 2 or 3 hours is enough for most movies that aren't Lord of the Rings
PRICE: (approximations)
Play-Yan:
¥5000 JPY
$49 USD
$59 CAD
37 EUR
£25 GBP
$62 AUD
Play-Yan with MediaStage 4.2 conversion software:
¥6000 JPY
$58 USD
$72 CAD
45 EUR
£31 GBP
$74 AUD
