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RCA M5000
comment: 22 | Saturday, August 05 (2006) 10:20AM | Posted by Lone
There's always so much going on over at RCA it's hard to keep up. This "new" DAP showed up on their site recently, and it sounds like some sort of weapon from Doom or something. The M5000.

The M5001 and M5002 are 1 and 2 GB models, respectively (flash memory of course). It was a few more features than RCA's latest, the H106, including FM radio/recording, line-in recording, voice recording, photo viewing (JPEG, BMP, TIF, GIF, PNG), and video playback (MOV, AVI). Apparently all of this is possible on the units' 1.8" color TFT display, though it's not obvious that it supports color from the picture on RCA's site. Format support is the RCA-standard of MP3, WMA, and WMA-DRM, and the M5000 does lyrics too if you're into that. RCA adds a nice touch with the bundled goodies, including 100 Free mp3 Downloads for eMusic.com, and free trial offers from Yahoo! Music Unlimited and Audible.com.

PC Online (a Chinese site) has a bit more info, with mentions of TXT support, A-B repeat features, and SRS equalizer options. They also list the screen as having 65K colors.

Product Page
LINK (PC Online)

Update: Looks like this is a rebrand of an MSI unit (why would RCA rebrand their stuff anyway?). (Thanks, 4vo)
Comments

4vo

Comments: 160
Aug 05 (2006) 10:46AM  

Seems to borrow heavily in design from that MSI player a while ago.




Steve

Comments: 1197
Aug 05 (2006) 11:03AM  

Good set of features and 100 non-drm mp3's, not bad!




Dominic
Location: Ireland.
Comments: 2408
Aug 05 (2006) 11:04AM  

or....they are the same thing???




Lone

Comments: 973
Aug 05 (2006) 11:12AM  

Looks like you're right 4vo.

[Linky]

I actually thought the same thing too, just forgot to search for it before posting.




dap_pad

Comments: 519
Aug 05 (2006) 11:40AM  

LOL thought it looks familiar the control thing was really cool on the MSI thing LOL and stil looks cool here LOL the controls looks somewhat like a Bohr-Rutherford diagram




4vo

Comments: 160
Aug 05 (2006) 11:45AM  

Wow! They are the exact same shell.. except the RCA seems to have a less-impressive monochrome-looking GUI/menu.

I wonder if this is the "new" generic MP3 player shell..




Saijin_Naib
Location: Warren, NJ
Comments: 927
Aug 05 (2006) 11:56AM  

Wonder if its any good? I might pick it up and see.




dap_pad

Comments: 519
Aug 05 (2006) 12:09PM  

lol RCA's GUI has never been too flashy or ergonomic for that matter LOL




Dominic
Location: Ireland.
Comments: 2408
Aug 05 (2006) 12:32PM  

Another one?
[Linky]






pecker

Comments: 501
Aug 05 (2006) 01:25PM  

yes dominic that would be another one




Dominic
Location: Ireland.
Comments: 2408
Aug 05 (2006) 01:56PM  

lol




4vo

Comments: 160
Aug 05 (2006) 02:02PM  

Ohnoes, it's an attack of identical clones.

Looks like someone did a pretty poor job of keeping some hardware plans secret.




Steve

Comments: 1197
Aug 05 (2006) 02:14PM  

I wonder if you can cross-flash the firmware. So you could buy one and try all three.




dap_pad

Comments: 519
Aug 05 (2006) 02:17PM  

LOL i wonder... maybe you could cross-flash the firmware and Cnet seems to like the Packard Bell's GUI LOL maybe someone could buy one and review three LOL Buy 1 get 2 free!




undesign

Comments: 805
Aug 05 (2006) 02:39PM  

GUI looks similar to my sony HD5.

overall design of the thing has sony styling anyway (not entirely, but a little).

I kinna like it.




Donnie

Comments: 247
Aug 05 (2006) 02:41PM  

RCA/Thomson's designs are like an "unhip" person attempting to be "hip". At least they're not too late in the game, but who knows?




Agent Smith

Comments: 83
Aug 05 (2006) 04:13PM  

Unless someone has some evidence to the contrary, the MSI unit could actually be a rebranded player made by RCA.

Let's not forget that RCA had one of the first 40GB mass storage compliant players. They started out on the right track, but somewhere along the line they lost their way.




Dominic
Location: Ireland.
Comments: 2408
Aug 05 (2006) 04:28PM  

or a rebranded packard bell ha ha ha




Michael
Location: New York City
Comments: 2802
Aug 05 (2006) 05:59PM  

4evo, it's the same GUI too. I'm sure both this and the MSI I posted back then are rebrands of something else.




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