On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:53:53 -0600, Ignoramus18705 wrote:

> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16855228017
>
> This is a portable music and video player. I bought it for my wife as
> a present (with 30 GB of memory though). It arrived and looked interesting.

Looking at the reviews sounds like it needs to be sent back after a short
time to be replaced.


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Ignoramus18705 wrote:

> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16855228017
>
> This is a portable music and video player. I bought it for my wife as
> a present (with 30 GB of memory though). It arrived and looked
> interesting.
>
> It does not require any "software", to the computer it looks like a
> USB drive, which it is. So you just copy your movies to it for
> viewing.
>
> It works fine and handles very many video formats. My wife likes
> movies, so, I hope, she will enjoy it.
>
> When it booted up, it looked kind of suspiciously linux-y with nice
> blue colors and menus. So I did some searches and learned that it is
> indeed a Linux device. It runs Linux OS inside. Cowon used GPLed
> software, so they were obligated to release their source code. Here's
> something I found for a previous player.
>
> http://www.cowonglobal.com/download/..._070622.tar.gz
>
> Very interesting. Many consumer devices, for example TiVO, are also
> Linux based.
>
> i

Wow, if you wrote interesting 3 times, its gotta be interesting. How
interesting.

- Miguel

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