
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 PageLINK (PC Online)
Update: Looks like this is a rebrand of an
MSI unit (why would RCA rebrand their stuff anyway?). (
Thanks, 4vo)
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Seems to borrow heavily in design from that MSI player a while ago.