Centon 1GB Full Speed 2.0 moVox MP4

leapetra · #1 (**permalink**) 28th Apr 2007, 5:24 am

First time posting; Thought I would share my good luck.
After looking around for awhile for a mp3 player with video. I was going to buy a Creative Zen at Target, but decided to look around. Avoiding ebay and other auctions sites (Personally I don't like to use any of them.) I found on Newegg the player I decided to get.
The main page from Centon is here: Centon 1 gb
Over all I am please. It took me about three hours to figure it out, because the manual is hard to decipher. ie: bad translation.
It doesn't look like an ipod, which is one thing I wanted, but it does everything I wanted it to. Video, MP3, Text, voice record, radio, and even some games.
Some problems is the media manager program included with the software. So I just use cut and paste files, works a lot easier.
The amv software conversion is the same that is offered here. Worked good until I tried to convert an hour long show. It got about half way and stopped. (I used Super first to convert the media file, so I will mess around some more to see if I may have had the wrong settings.
Actually the biggest problem was with delivery, but that was a total UPS screw up, not anything with New Egg or Centon.
It would have been better to get one with an memory card expansion slot, that will be on my list for the next one.

Ely · #2 (**permalink**) 28th Apr 2007, 7:59 pm

looks good but its different to all the other players I have seen; let us know if it keeps working good after several weeks of usage.

My next player might be a Meizu; I have seen some nice reviews here and in other places that really make me crave for one; currently I'm enjoying my second MP4 player I got from UXcell and Im very happy with it, a Perl Z in Black with 2GB of flash memory ; first player I got was a nano clone which was crap and stopped working like the second week after I got it though; I think I'm hooked into this MP4 players world :lol: hehe.

leapetra · #3 (**permalink**) 29th Apr 2007, 4:23 am

I did have one slight problem yesterday. There was a disk error, but I could still access the set up files, and the games. So I knew it wasn't dead. Luckily, the software came with a disk formatter (Although it was very similar to the one on windows anyway) I just did a quick reformat and it's working again.
So far it's lasted longer than my Memorex I bought a few years back. That was just a mp3 player and the first day the screen became unreadable. I will post updates.

leapetra · #4 (**permalink**) 21st May 2007, 2:27 am

Small problem again, nothing major. The little plastic lip that the lanyard threads through, is not that strong. I broke it on Saturday. Luckily thanks to an answer to one of my other posts I had a nice working case already. On that has a good D ring to attach the lanyard to.
I'm glad it happened after I got the case.
I wasn't doing anything strange with it, it just gave out.
Otherwise it's been working great. It is a full 1 GB too.