Mach Speed Trio TV5 Video
Mach Speed Trio TV5 Video Transcript
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>> Hello. I'm Donald Bell, senior editor for MP3 and digital audio and today we're going to take a first look at the Mock Speed Trio TV5. It tries to do just about everything, but unfortunately it is crippled with a lot of undeveloped features, lots of problems using any one of these features that keep it from doing any one of those things well. The trade off is that it only cost 110 dollars, which for a portable movie player or a digital video recorder, is like laughably inexpensive. Unfortunately, it just doesn't do any of those things well. So even at 110 dollars, if it doesn't do anything well, it's still not worth the money. It also makes a really loud sound when you navigate through the menus. The first thing we did after we spent some time laughing at the sound was turn it off because it gets really annoying. There's no way to organize music on this player. You can hook it up to your computer and transfer MP3 files or WMA files or WAV files over to it, but it all goes in the same directory. You can't make subfolders, you can't make play lists. And the organization of the actual play list, plays in order of the date you added it to the player. It really makes it so that it's a feature that's on here that no one would really use. The display shows first few letters of a title. Unless you really know your MP3 collection well, getting the first three or four letters of a song or an artist is not going to really help you find out what song is playing on this thing. The recording results weren't bad on the highest setting for video. But the audio quality on even the highest setting was a low bit rate, so even though the video results were okay, the direct-recorded audio results were horrible. It only has 512 megabytes of memory. They pretty much are counting on the fact that you're going to be using the SD card slot on the bottom to add up to 2 gigabytes of memory and use that. One last thing on here, there's no way to really tell what the battery life. It's a very confusing battery icon on the top here. That might be a blank battery, it might be a full battery, you can't really tell what the status is until it finally decides to conk out and give you a funny little error message that's all in Chinese that's indecipherable. I'm Donald Bell and we just took a first look at the Mock Speed Trio TV5. ^M00:02:32 [ Music ]
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Mach Speed Trio TV5 Review
The good: The Mach Speed Trio TV5 offers an incredible list of features at a price that's too good to be true.
The bad: Nearly every one of the TV5's features is handicapped in some profound way. Sound quality and battery life are poor and the internal memory is only 512MB.
The bottom line: The Mach Speed Trio TV5 is proof that sometimes a product can be less than the sum of its parts.
Mach Speed Trio TV5 Specs
Manufacturer: Mach Speed Technologies Inc
Part number: PMP-TRIO TV5-512MB
- Product Specifications
