Iaudio D2 Views

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Upgrading the firmware is kind of a hassle compared to some other Cowon/iAudio players. You have to drag and drop the firmware in three separate steps into the D28′s root folder and several restarts between the steps are needed. All content gets deleted from the D2p′s memory in the process, and all settings are reset to default. As you already may have noticed, the current firmware (v2.41) isnm’t very mature.

I have never owned a digital media player. I run only Linux at home, and I received an 80gb ipod for Christmas. Before I opened it I started researching compatibility. Didnh’t take long for me to decide to return the ipod. I went and bought an 80gb Archos 605 and tried it out for a few days but decided that it was way beyond what I needed, and too fragile due to the HDD. Nice device though, and worked flawlessly with Linux.I have settled on the D2 for a few reasons. Linux, Audio quality, codec support (FLAC and Ogg Vorbis) and size. The SD slot was the deciding factor between the D2 and the iAudio 7.Ordered yesterday from NCIX.com. They had the best price of any retailer in Canada. Looking forward to not having a stack of trashed CDs in my car.HAPPY NEW YEAR!

http://www.iaudiophile.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=53 Alot of info can be found at the above. My best mp3 player so far after creative and ipod. They are nowhere near Cowon iAudio in terms of sound quality. Its a good buy. U have Hardware control for volume control, Next song, Pause. Cowon always have firmware upgrade to give suprises. Latest is 3.45 with notepad function to draw and color. Next is flash implementation. There will be more to come like even higher SDHC support (Now is 8GB) in next Firwareupgrade. They might be supporting 640x480 AV output since D2 is able to handle 2000kbps rate for their video which is totally insane.

The iAudio D2 player is a portable device that uses a touch screen to access menus for watching video and listening to music. You can record video from the TV to watch on the iAudio D2 by copying a TV program directly to a Secure Digital (SD) memory card as it is being viewed through a TV tuner card in the computer. The SD card can then be inserted into the iAudio D2 for viewing on its built-in LCD screen. A few supplies from a computer store will be needed.