Veel MP3 spelers hebben tegenwoordig extra functies zoals een FM-tuner of voice recorder. De jazPiper MVR64P kan naast het afspelen van MP3's ook met behulp van een camera digitale foto's nemen. De jazPiper beschikt over 64MB geheugen dat uitgebreid kan worden met een extra module van maximaal 64MB. De digitale camera wordt via een parallelle kabel aangesloten; dit heeft tot gevolg dat je 15 seconden moet wachten voor je de volgende foto kunt nemen. De kwaliteit van de plaatjes is daarbij nog eens vreselijk slecht. Gelukkig is de camera optioneel.
Having an MP3 player with an attached digital camera is a great idea. It's too bad that jazPiper couldn't execute the idea right. The camera plugs into the parallel port of the MVR64P. That's the good part, get ready for the bad. After the take picture button is pressed, it is about 15 seconds until another picture can be taken. The camera takes pictures of horrible quality. Anything within 5 feet of an object turns out horrible. Beyond 5 feet, the picture turns out all right, if low quality.
[...] Although the jazPiper MVR64P isn't a 1derful MP3 product, it certainly isn't a bad one. It has all the features required of an MP3 player at the dawn of 2001, except for a USB cable. That is the deciding factor between this and all the other MP3 players that cost $170.
On the other hand, the optional digital camera is a bad product. It takes horrible pictures, and it costs $80 dollars and shipping. I've used incredibly cheap sub $100 digital cameras, and they look like $1500 dollar cameras compared to the MVR64P's digital camera. It was a good idea, but it was flawed in execution. Perhaps later iterations of the MVR64P will have higher quality accessories.
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