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Mar 10, 2007
Great Game For Kids Young And Old
1 of 1 found this helpful How can't you like flying around in a toy plane or driving a toy car? It is like being a kid again making up a epic struggle between good and evil with your toys the only difference is that in this game you get to be one of the toys!
Some of the younger kids might get frustrated with the game as many of the missions require near perfect performances to beat. It also gets a bit repetitive since you have to repeat most missions 5-10 times before you get the timing down and figure out exactly how to beat a level.
Multiplayer is great fun although not that challenging since you can just look at the screen and see where your opponent is.
Mar 10, 2007
A Great Camera For The Price
4 of 5 found this helpful This is a great all around camera that works just as well for general picture taking as it does for taking pictures of products to sell on eBay.
How Many Pictures Will Your Get?
Probably a really common questions when it comes to cameras is how many pictures do you get. With a 512MB memory card the camera has room for 452 pictures at full resolution or about 21 minutes of sound and video.
What I like:
Blur indicator. This is a little hand icon near the top of the LCD that is green if there is no blur, yellow if there may be some blur and red if there is significant blurring. This is great since it can be hard to judge the amount of blur from the LCD display, if you see a red indicator snap a few more pictures to ensure you have a good one.
Scene mode. This is a bunch of presets setup to produce the best picture for specific situation so you don't have to muck around with the advanced settings. The settings available are Children (for action photos in bright light), Party (photos of people in indoor settings), Beach, Snow, Fireworks, Self Portrait, Night Portrait, Portrait (full frame photos of people or other subjects), Sport (for subjects in motion).
Movie mode, This is great for capturing short little clips at 640 x 480 resolution (better than or equal to most web cams). There also a built in microphone to record audio along with your movie clips.
The camera also has all the advanced options you could need like exposure compensation, exposure bracketing, long time exposure, white balance, ISO speed and black and white / color mode.
Dislikes:
The blur indicator can be too sensitive and about 5-10% of the time it will indicate excessive blurring on a picture that has no apparent problems.
Jun 15, 2006
Good solid player
74 of 79 found this helpful I bought one of these a few weeks ago to use with Napster to go. Although I love the player there are some problems.
Sometimes the player will stop playing an Napster tracks but will still play regular mp3s. This just seems to happen out of nowhere and the only way to fix it is to reformat the player using Windows Media player and reload everything. (Updating to the latest firmware did not fix this).
Video files have to be converted to quicktime. The bundled conversion app choked on many of my videos. One wouldn't play and with most the others the sound was distorted even at low volume levels (the video looks great however). I have only been able to get a few videos to play with good sound quality but it probably has something to do with how they were originally encoded and is not a problem with the player itself.
On the positive side the player is much cheaper than a iPod.
Works with Napster To Go so you can pay $14.99 a month and download and load anything in the Napster library that is not 'buy only' (Unlike iTunes where you have to pay for every song you want).
The player looks great (I bought a black one) and is packed with features. I love having the ability to play video files and the built in FM turner eliminates the need for any other portable audio device.
One other note if you are really looking to load it up with videos spring for the higher capacity versions (they make 2, 4, 6 and 8GB models) 2GB is just not enough for both music and videos and the memory cards you can use to add capacity are limited to 2GB.
Update 3/10/2007:
I have not had the downloaded tracks refusing to play out of nowhere problem in months. This appears to have been a syncing problem with Napster that has been improved with recent versions of Napster.