iRiver PMP-140 Portable Audio / Video Player, anything better?

[Big.Wayne]

Hiya,

I have owned an iRiver IHP-140 (audio player) for a year and a half and it has worked well but as always maybe its time to upgrade.

Just been offered an iRiver PMP-140, 40GB audio/video player and picture viewer

Just spent an hour reading several web reviews on the PMP-140, everything seems pretty decent, plays DivX and XviD videos, MP3 and other audio codecs (Ogg WMA?) 5 hour battery life for video, 10 hours for audio. It has a USBv2.0 connection to the PC and a USBv1.1 Host USB port (for plugging in a digital camera etc, would have prefered a USBv2.0 host though!). The killer feature for me is the on-the-fly direct-MP3-encoding!


iRiver don't have any mention of the PMP-140 on their website anymore? not sure why? is it that old? Instead they have a model called the PMC-140 which doesn't appear to be as good as the older PMP-140?

Had a quick look at the U10 but 1GB/2GB is simply not enough storage space.

Wondered what the competition is to this player for around £220?


Any of you guys own or used one of these, or can recommend something similar I would be interested to hear what you have to say

[edit] just saw the Apple iPod Video 60GB MP3 Player (£299.04 inc)

any good?

 

[Big.Wayne]

thanks for the replies. Just remembered a friend has a PMP-140 so I gave him a quick call to see if I could loan it for a day or so, sadly its been sent back to iRiver in germany for repair. something to do with it not turning on properly?. The worrying thing is this is the second unit he had, the first one did the exact same thing. . .

Think I'll sit this round out!