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From: Ignoramus18705 on 1 Feb 2008 22:53
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16855228017

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/gnu/cowon_a2_bsp_source_070622.tar.gz

Very interesting. Many consumer devices, for example TiVO, are also
Linux based.

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From: Robert on 1 Feb 2008 22:57
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:53:53 -0600, Ignoramus18705 wrote:

> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16855228017
>
> 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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