Aluratek Cinepal 8.9" HD 720P 4GB All-in-one Personal Media Player, Black

Plays most formats well, except for a few that doesnt want to go with the flow. Nice that it takes a SD card, internal memory could have at least been 8gigs rather than 4, but oh well. Screen is average is size, good enough not to strain it

A couple of movies I loaded on it plays but with stutter. It is quite annoying, I didn't think it was the player but the flash drive. I played different low end movie files from flash drive and it played perfectly, meaning its the player that cant play...

Great picture, good selection of video/audio formats, much more rugged than the portable DVD players that the kids have been destroying (along with the DVDs) for the past year or so, also a lot more compact ; As an added bonus it makes a nice...

User interaction can be a little confusing at times, the navigation buttons to move up/down a list or across a list can take a bit of getting used to ; Probably need someone in the family with a degree of technical knowledge of video formats and...

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Had to go through the return process with this this. The first one sent screen didn't work. I had to pay for a return label. Then the second one I recieved had a crack through the screen. Didn't want to go 0 for 3. I'm getting my money back this time

Does play most codecs without issues ; Best feature: can play HD video from an external (powered) hard drive, and with almost no stutter ; Screen is very nice ; For the money, playback quality is fantastic. If all you want to do is watch movies and can...

No firmware updates as of yet ; Some AVI codecs will not play (though I haven't yet determined what they are) ; Probably weak support from Aluratek based on their web site ; Menu system is not very intuitive; different buttons do different types of...

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everything from the placement of the buttons to the interface. when I first turned it on the screen was all messed up. had to return

As usual, Newegg delivered as expected without delay. The only positive that I can attribute with this purchase

I'm afraid that the unit I received although brand new out of the box is defective through no fault of the retailer. The picture is heavily distorted even beyond tolerable. Did not even get to try it for reasons that I can't barely discern what I'm...

Reads srt files and has a large screan. Many formats are played and easy to use

The srt files are displayed with black letters which can be hard to see as apposed to white letters

I am surprised by the screen quality ; Video playback is awesome. I haven't needed to re-encode any video to play on this. That includes an h.264 1080p Blu-ray rip ; Video playback is completely smooth (no skipped frames or jumping) ; Battery life is...

Poor audio support: It only supports mp3 and wma. A lot of high definition content is encoded in ACC which means the audio for some videos wont play. Re-encoding the audio to mp3/wma is required (can be done quickly on most machines) ; Poor reader...

Plays everything, small and light, large screen, low price, longer battery life than a portable dvd player and smaller as well

No car charger, clunky interface

Plays almost everything. Great screen. Very portable

Box lists a "quick start guide". Does not have one. When I called Aluratek they advised it was a printing error on box ; Instructions a little difficult to follow ; You need patience because it takes a while to load. Other than that very nice