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Vizo Opera Portable Media Player Review 1/5
Bluetooth 5 Apr 2006

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Opera - Portable HDD Enclosure & Multimedia Player

Do you feel bored with the endless repeating programmes on your terrestial and cable TV. The same thing happens again when you go overseas as it is broadcasting in some language that you don't understand? Well this happens to me very often and I have been looking for a portable device that can store images, music, video files and best of all, be able to playback.

Vizo a relatively new company brings you OPERA, a 2.5" mutlimedia player which allows just that. The device comes without a 2.5" HDD and it weighs only 215g. In fact, the lightweight of this devices makes it very portable to carry around. As it coms with a USB connector, you can safely connect it to your notebook as an external Hard Disk.

To watch movies, view photos or listen to your MP3 collection, all you have to do is just to connect AV inputs on any television, Opera's user-friendly interface can play MPEG-4, DVD, VCD and Digital camera photo on TV or Computer monitor with a touch the remote control. At the back of the panel are output ports for VGA monitor, RCA cables for TV, USB, Digital AC3 5.1 channels for the best surround-sound experience and power plug.

For movie buffs, most will try to RIP the DVDs into DIXV, XvID or VOB. The device is able to play them back without any issues. Other formats supported are listed below :

Movie: MPEG 1, 2, 4 (MPG, MPEG, AVI, M2V, DAT, VOB, IFO etc.) DivX, XviD except GMC, Qpel option applied)
Music: MP3, AC3, OGG Vorbis, WAV, WMA (except WMA9 pro.lossless)
Photo: JPG(JPEG)
Available OS: Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP

The player also supports playback with English and Chinese language subtitles (depends on firmware). SUB format is supported.

Specifications

Power: DC 5V / 2.0A
Weight: 215g (without HDD)
Dimension: 131 x 80 x 19 mm
Interface: 480Mbps USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 Compatible) / Master / Slave
HDD Type : 2.5" IDE HDD
HDD File System: FAT32
TV Type: NTSC / PAL , VGA

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