All I Want For Christmas – MP3 Video Players

Mp3 Video Players

By Anne Ahira

Do you remember the time when to take your music with you required a huge boom box and a bag of batteries? Times have surely changed! Portable music players have continued to shrink while their capabilities have increased dramatically.

Could you have imagined just 15 years ago carrying mp3 video players in your pocket? All your favorite music and now movies too can be toted around in your back pocket or favorite purse!

Mp3 video players are the newest kids on the block when it comes to personal portable media. They come in all shapes and sizes as well as brands and capabilities. The main difference however is in the type of memory they contain. Whether it is flash or hard drive.

Flash Memory

Flash memory is the best for mp3 video players that will be constantly on the go. This is because there are no moving parts to be damaged by excessive jostling. Flash memory what you find on jump drives and older mp3 players.

The downside if any is that flash memory is generally much smaller than what you can get with a hard drive based memory. Mp3 video players with flash will range in size from 1 GB to 8 GB. When compared to hard drive that does not sound like a lot of memory, however for most people it will be more than sufficient.

Consider the Latte Communication Ice 8 GB mp3 video players. They are beautiful players compatible with mp3, wav and wma file formats. In addition, they have a 2.8 LCD screen that has awesome clear display and an expansion slot for SD memory cards.

The modest 8 GB of memory will hold 2,000 songs or 24 full-length movies. Now that is a lot of entertainment to carry around in your pocket! Even if you have every song and movie known to man there is little chance that you must have them all at your fingertips. You would probably kill the battery just looking for a movie or song if you had much more than that available. At $99 on Amazon, this is a great mp3 video player.

Cons:  The more technologically advanced were not happy with the small memory expansion, this unit will only accept SD cards of 2 GB, but other than that, the player had great reviews.

Hard Drive

Now if you are the collector of music and video and must have millions of songs at your beck and call then you will want to consider mp3 video players with hard drive storage.

The most common application you will find in mp3 video players is the IPod. While the IPod is an excellent product, there is enough information and marketing available without touting them here.

Creative Zen created a very nice line mp3 video players with built in hard drive. The 20 GB hard drive is large enough to store 10,000 songs with a quoted battery life of 19 hours.

Customer reviews are widely positive but there were a few issues.

Cons:  The unit tends to have a few bugs and functionality issues at first. The player is not the most user friendly on the block and a few customers took exception to this. It must be noted for as many who had trouble with this player there were more who had no issues at all.

Here's MP3 Video Players Selections:

Coby 4 GB Flash MP3 Player with FM and Color Displ...	Customer Review: The product loooks great and the quality of the music is good for this price, as per my thoughts. Only reason for a 4-star is that the buttons are slightly harder to press and also shakes a little. I got two of them and both are same in this aspect. ... Read More	$39.99 (51)
SanDisk Sansa Fuze 8 GB Video MP3 Player (Black)...	Customer Review: Pros:1. Small/light weight2. Easy interface, "almost boring" - cnet reviews3. Micro SD slot for extra storageCons:1. Small screen - watching videos a chore2. Windows XP did not recognize this device - SanDisk forums has a good thread3. Did not come w... Read More	(251)
Zune HD 16 GB Video MP3 Player (Black)...	Customer Review: I admit at first seeing this out of the box, I wondered how something this size could measure up to other media players out there. Fortunately, everything about this player makes up for it. I don't know the size of the iphone or itouch; I honestly th... Read More
Sony Walkman E-340 Series 8 GB Video MP3 Player (B...	Customer Review: The Sony Walkman E-340 Series 8 GB Video MP3 Player is very easy to use.You just plug it to your pc and either use windows media player, windows explorer, or the provided transfer program.Songs and videos that are in a non-compatible format will be a... Read More	(37)
Sony Walkman NWZS545BLK 16 GB Video MP3 Player (Bl...	Customer Review: Bought this to use on my motorcycle. Needed something with long battery for those long rides. Disappointed with the actual battery life, but is enough for my needs. Lasts about 16 hours, not the advertised 44 hours. Sound quality is great. Can't... Read More	(82)