December 22nd, 2007Review Of The Wolverine Data MVP
Category: Hard Drive Player
Storage Capacity: 60 GB
Audio formats: MP3, AAC, WAV, WMA (secure)
When you’re talking about the obscure Wolverine Data MVP, you can’t avoid chatting about size. Obtainable in 60GB ($400), 100GB ($500), and 120GB ($600) capacities, the MVP 9000 series offers more memory than most MP3 players on the market. Like an iPod, it plays video, audio, and image files from an interior hard drive and has a high-quality full-color show. not like an iPod, the MVP slot in a multiform at memory-card reader and comes with a liberal collection of accessories, including a wireless remote control, a power adapter, and a moving case with built-in speaker. Those features, dual with on the whole honest recital, make the MVP an OK contender for some users, but we wish it weren’t so bulky. bodily speaking, it must live the biggest MP3 player in the world. Its lack of DRM bear also seems to us like an understandable oversight at this period of the game.
Features
Carry audio-file formats include MP3, undefended WMA, unprotected AAC, and WAV. The Wolverine Data MVP also supports M3U playlists transferred from your computer and has an add-to-queue-type active playlist meaning. The presence of support for DRM-protected files will put off Internet-music-service users. In the video monarchy, the MVP plays MPEG-1 files at 352×288-pixel declaration and 30 frames per second (fps), as fine as MPEG-4 and DivX 5.x/6.x files at either 720×480-pixel resolution and 25fps or 640×480-pixel decree or 30fps. Unhappily, MPEG-2 and WMV files aren’t supported.
Given its large hard drive, multitude of card slots, and decent LCD, the MVP makes a good tool for store and viewing digital photos. It can display JPEG, TIFF, and BMP image files as well as raw files from certain digital cameras. Although this trait is not listed in the specifications, the device is also able to display a no animated GIF file. You can configure the MVP to automatically stretch images to fill its entire display. It is clever to go fast still images up to 4X advantage rotate them. Viewing a photo slide show with musical accessory required a few more configuration steps than we would have liked, but it was nonetheless a fairly quick and painless process.
The MVP can play media files straight from an inserted memory card or copy the files to its internal hard drive. Expediently, when connected to a computer, the Wolverine doubles as a PC memory-card reader. hold up memory-card format include SD/MMC, Smart Media, Compact Flash, Memory Stick/Memory Stick Pro, Micro Drive, and XD. An optional adapter lets you use a few other memory-card set-ups.
Performance
Supported audio-file formats include MP3, unprotected WMA, unprotected AAC, and WAV. The Wolverine Data MVP also supports M3U playlists transferred from your computer and has an add-to-queue-type on-the-go playlist meaning. The absence of support for DRM-protected files will put off Internet-music-service users. In the video realm, the MVP plays MPEG-1 files at 352×288-pixel resolution and 30 frames per second (fps), as well as MPEG-4 and DivX 5.x/6.x files at either 720×480-pixel declaration and 25fps or 640×480-pixel resolution and 30fps. Unfortunately, MPEG-2 and WMV files aren’t supported.
Given its large hard drive, multitude of card slots, and decent LCD, the MVP makes a good tool for storing and viewing digital photos. It can display JPEG, TIFF, and BMP image files as well as raw files from certain digital cameras. Although this feature is not listed in the specifications, the device is also able to display a no animated GIF file. You can configure the MVP to automatically stretch images to fill its entire display. It can zoom still images up to 4X and rotate them. Viewing a photo slide show with melodious accessory required a few more configuration steps than we would have liked, but it was however a fairly quick and painless process.
The MVP can play media files directly from an inserted memory card or copy the files to its internal hard drive. expediently, when connected to a computer, the Wolverine doubles as a PC memory-card reader. support memory-card formats include SD/MMC, SmartMedia, CompactFlash, Memory Stick/Memory Stick Pro, Micro Drive, and XD. An optional adapter lets you use a few other memory-card formats.
Design
Measuring 5.04 by 3.01 by 1.18 inches and decked out in a coat of glossy red, the bulky Wolverine Data MVP be reminiscent of a brick with an LCD. It’s larger than an iPod in all dimensions and more than twice as thick, though its 2.5-inch-diagonal color LCD is the same size as an iPod’s. Despite weighing 10 ounces, it looks like it would fare well in a hard fall, but we didn’t want to tempt fate. Its fire-engine-red color plus black side panels help give the device a playful but not high-end appearance. It’s like a prop from the eighties.
A four-way keypad located on the MVP’s front panel allows intuitive navigation of menu levels, file lists, and other features. An Escape button takes you back to the previous device mode, while the Menu button access various skin, including playlists, the six available EQ presets (there’s no user-programmable EQ), repeat one/all, and shuffle. A rocker switch on the left side of the device lets you go fast still images and adjust the volume.
Among the MVP’s main-menu options are music, picture, and video icons that you select to drill down into the respective categories. In terms of interface design, the MVP’s only significant drawback is that it doesn’t filter by ID3 tags. Because a consequence, you have to find the way music using the filenames and the directories under which files be store on the unit. In other words, you can’t browse music by categories such as performer, album, plus genre. You can, however, arrange the music folders to your liking.
The MVP’s connectivity includes a high-speed USB 2.0 port, a power-adapter jack, and three multi format memory-card slots. Mini jack video and audio outputs allow you to play the unit through your home-theater system, for instance. A mini jack audio input for line-in recording rounds out the MVP’s connectivity. The unit also has a built-in microphone for voice recording.
In the package, Wolverine includes a small, basic remote control with 10 blister-type buttons. Although you’re improbable to use the remote for portable applications, it’s good to have if you connect the MVP to your home-theater system. The corporation also supplies a black hard-shell carrying case with a built-in speaker that’s powered
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