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Cowon V5: To Buy, or not to buy?
kyanwan:
--- Quote from: mgz on April 13, 2010, 03:17:46 AM ---cnet also tends to hold everything up to APPLE = GOLDEN STANDARD
which is lolz, thats why i said wait for reviews from ppl who really like players. Im waiting for reviews to be posted on anythingbutipod.com
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I'm seriously sick of that myself. The device looks good to me, but the price is wrong for something that's a bit on the sketchy side.
[ The spoiler button is me ranting about the ipad. Feel free to ignore. ]
(click to show/hide)Now we have people touting: "Oh it's great that Apple censors and limits everything that goes into the[ipod, ipad, iphone]. It makes the quality of the apps "better".
The thing has obvious shortcomings - shortcomings that cripple it in my opinion. Look at these apps - they're all second rate shit. Who the hell says this crap is good?
People who have their heads up their ass - that's who. They're fawning over crap that's just as good as a fucking flash app on a computer. Now we have morons - writing articles - saying "Oh, we're going to have pc games like world of warcraft and halo on the iPad"
Yeah.
My fucking ass.
Now tell me - with this overgrown ipod touch - with a larger display and that's about it - how in the fuck are you going to get that thing to power a display 4 times larger than it was designed to power?
I dunno, maybe if we wish hard enough, and love the planet long enough - and with such passion that trees will grow and wild animals will jizz all over the place ... maybe, just maybe it'll run.
Oh yeah, recycle too, good for the karma. It'll make our apps run with rainbows coming out of a flying unicorn's asshole.
Please.
The thing sucks. :P It's a crippled piece of shit that basically bites ass.
But I guess if you're just a casual user who enjoys playing stuff that has the quality of flash games ( oh, no flash games btw - it don't have flash. Half of the fucking internet is broken ) ... then the iPod is great.
Work on this thing? The only thing I could think of to use it for ( that I would buy it in an INSTANT for ) - it doesn't support. What's that? Custom apps - that I develop. I could use this thing like crazy - but they don't let me, you, or anyone develop for it.
So fuck em. Bastards.
fohfoh:
Apple is a love hate relationship. I like their designs at times, then it goes into (for instance this generation) the ugliest shit ever. I liked the previous gen macbook/MBP look. White/Black or Pure silver. Current = Silver + Black... wtf?
Copies of Apple.... come on. Getting sick of it. Price sucks.
Not to mention I have their stock. Good to know Apple is doing well. Not good to know everything has to be like Apple to be comparable or to be "good". That's stupid.
IMO Cowon is a good buy. Sturdy and nice. It won't die on you firmware wise. But might have small hiccups which are ok to deal with. I hate the accelerometer thing in my S9, but I just have to turn it off and back on maybe ever few days when the issue occurs and the accelerometer makes the GUI get stuck.
nstgc:
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--- Quote from: killazys on April 13, 2010, 03:10:02 PM ---I would get the s9, but there's no native compatiblity for .mkv files, and converting is a terrible hassle. Oh, and space issues.
The prices for the V5 are slowly going down... but slow, as in $3 different from yesterday.
How about an Archos 5? The only thing with this is you have to buy support for different file formats or extra features...
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You can remux videos into mp4 containers can't you?
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Edited for clarification.
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I don't count remuxing as converting. Thats like saying moving one box full of crap into another is cleaning.
I think the guy is thinking about actual converts which reencode. I had one of those for an old iPod. I'm talking about remuxing, which is taking what already exists and putting it into a different container. Its not hard, and its not time consuming.
CvP:
V5 prices will not go down any time soon.
I think V5 is excellent except there's no wifi.
kyanwan:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on April 13, 2010, 06:24:33 PM ---Apple is a love hate relationship. I like their designs at times, then it goes into (for instance this generation) the ugliest shit ever. I liked the previous gen macbook/MBP look. White/Black or Pure silver. Current = Silver + Black... wtf?
Copies of Apple.... come on. Getting sick of it. Price sucks.
Not to mention I have their stock. Good to know Apple is doing well. Not good to know everything has to be like Apple to be comparable or to be "good". That's stupid.
IMO Cowon is a good buy. Sturdy and nice. It won't die on you firmware wise. But might have small hiccups which are ok to deal with. I hate the accelerometer thing in my S9, but I just have to turn it off and back on maybe ever few days when the issue occurs and the accelerometer makes the GUI get stuck.
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I hope you didn't buy apple stock @ a high ( as in: now. )
Doing such = bad idea. ( I heard someone say "buy silver" - according to historical rates, buying silver right now, when it's 4x its historical value, is retarded. Now, if you were forward looking back in the start of the run, about 2001 - you would have made a killing right now - then unload your silver on someone in panic mode, shift your money into a relatively stable currency and bam - you're set. )
But that's just my opinion. ( If I were buying - I'd go for a big bank that is likely to recover - read: citibank - throw in an amount of money I don't mind losing - and sit on it. That's the kind of person I am. I've got a hunch there - last time I had this kind of feeling - the stock I picked multiplied about 40 fold. )
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