Portable Media Center

What exactly does something with a 60GB hard drive expect to do, with 10 days of video, thousands of photos, and more than 40 days of music CDs? With hard drive capacity with exceptional 2-3 / 8 "screen, Toshiba goes to pick up his behalf in relation to MP3 players. Preloaded with Windows Mobile software, and intuitive editing Windows XP Media Center, a TV can be immediately reflected on the Gigabeat. Many features are available, such as the WMV 7, WMV 8, 9 and WMV video - and display JPEG images. It is MP3, WMA, protected WMA and WAV audio fields. Its 60GB holds up to 2,000 hours of home services, up to 240 hours of movies, FM tuner with 30 station presets, high-speed interface with USB cable. It offers up to 20 hours of audio playback or 4.15 hours of video with built-in lithium-ion battery.

With the type of Toshiba's reputation, a person expects them to put the same type of product. Nothing amazing or shocking, but something that does exactly what you want. Therefore, the Toshiba Gigabeat Portable Media Center is so wonderful. But on the other hand, its Gigabeat Mobile Audio Player is less than wonderful. If you wonder what customers are talking, lets start with the screen. Toshiba produces large 2.2 "screen that the views and any digital media player on the market today. Why is it bad? Because the Toshiba Gigabeat Mobile Audio Player is just that, a audio player. You can view photos, but no video. What a waste of a great screen time.

Then, a place where an MP3 player can be labeled great or horrible, it is the navigation system. Toshiba has developed a system PlusTouch forming a cross in the middle of the drive. Like Apple, Creative, and all others, Toshiba believes in their system, but it is weak to say the least. To begin with, sometimes, it reads your actions for something completely the opposite of what you intended (pause when you try to increase the volume, etc..)

But worst of all, the quality of software is not at all desirable. It offers the use of Windows Media, but it is almost impossible to do both. Toshiba Gigabeat Room management software offers that inexplicably attempts to reformat all MP3 files in a format. Sat This format is almost unreadable on a computer that causes a major problem if you're looking to send your files to your computer. But as its been said before, when it comes to electronics it is really "everyone" is their own. And everyone can find what they enjoy what Toshiba has to offer in their player. But Toshiba Gigabeat Mobile Audio Player seems to lag quite significantly in the race digital audio.