Mustek PVR H240 40Gb 7 in 1 Portable Media player (PMP)
Filed under: Electronics, Portable Media Players | By: John
Posted on: June 17, 2007 | 1 Comment
We have had a few people looking for this PMP on product reviews over the last few days so here are some details on the Mustek PVR H240 40Gb 7 in 1 Portable Media player.
The PVR H240 packs some nice features like 40GB of storage space, TV playback through AV Out, USB 2.0 support, 2.4 inch Color TFT LCD with adjustable LCD brightness and Up to 30 fps AV recording in MPEG 4 file format.
The Mustek PVR H240 operates as a Portable 7-in-1 Multimedia Center which includes a Digital Voice Recorder, MMC/SD Card Reader, USB Pocket Drive, Music Player, Digital Photo Player, Digital Video Recorder and Digital Video Player.
Maybe not the best but packs many more features than most.
Product Page on mustek
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MY REVIEW:
OK, i know i started critically, but the fact is, this player was completely unusable for me.
I bought a brand new Mustek (Yukai) PVR-H240 from a Powerseller on Ebay.de and it came with a non-working software (Video converting software was the problem, rendering uploads of videos from PC to player impossible. And that’s surpose to be the main use from it)!
You guys need to understand that software that Mustek ships with the player is incomplete and very old (at least in my case it was. For example, Adobe Reader version 5.0 was included).
You are instructed to download a Video-Codec or Encoder from microsoft, but the version that Mustek software supports is only version 7.1, which is old.
You can only download newer version 9.0 from microsoft.com. That means you can’t convert video files on your PC to format supported by the Mustek player.
And another big minus is: you can only record for 4 hours continuosly. I also planed to use this player/recorder for video security recording, but 4 hours is nothing (and of course, nowhere in specs. are you gonna find this info)!
The online support is horrible. First of all it’s a bit confusing to figure out how to contact them (contacts on included documents were out of date), because they have so many websites and email addresses. And when i finally reached them, the lady told me she would send me a CD with microsofts 7.1 version encoder, but nothing arrived.
So mine went back and i just got refunded today.
Conclusion: first and last time i bought a Mustek/Yukai product. (what are they called anyway?)