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I've used Medeawiz as well. Its important that the removable flash card has
the same hertz rating or higher than the player. This will save you DAYS of
trouble shooting and trying to get in touch with customer service.

John Kelton
www.keltondesign.com

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:53 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I've used a tiny thing called the Viewstream 300 for a couple of projects
> and found it simple and effective. UK agent is Blackbox AV Ltd. I haven't
> tried anything too fancy with it. When switched on it just plays and repeats
> whatever is on its removeable Compact Flash card, in JPG, MPEG1 or MPEG2
> formats. Up to eight pushbuttons can be wired to the special connector cable
> supplied for this purpose. I'm setting this up right now for a current
> project. I don't anticipate any problems. I'll report back if I do!
>
> Ian Russell
> www.interactives.co.uk
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: Jon Haavie
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> Subject: Solid State Media Player: Which ones works?
> Sent: 19 May 2009 08:46
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> Dear all,
>
> I have been trying to find a good programmable solid state media
> player for some time now.
>
> I have testet a number of products to play music, images or video but
> they all seem to have the following problems:
> -The software used to program the player is full of bugs.
> -The player is unstabel, unreliable or unable to play the media formats
> -Controlling the player with buttons is a mess. There is a lot of
> delay and the players need a lot of extra expensive hardware to work.
> -The producer is unable, unwilling or uncapable to update software,
> firmware or give proper support.
>
> Have you got any experience with a media player that actually do the
> job?
>
> Jon Haavie
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