[cccp]

By Visionary

Creative has just launched the MuVo² FM 5GB player powered by Seagate's new 1-inch ST1 5GB, 3600rpm hard drive with RunOn Technology. Of course, we are very interested to know if this drive can be used in digicams like what the Hitachi 4GB Microdrive has been able to achieve therefore we take it apart and test it out.

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awesome write up
I wish I could find these players in the states
how much do they go for in your country ?

[FusionTiger]

Originally Posted by Hyper_Psycho

awesome write up
I wish I could find these players in the states
how much do they go for in your country ?

it's roughly going for around >S$450 or >US$220.



wow hey, by the way. I have just only noticed that you have joined this forums somewhere in april 2002, and this is your first post? Interesting. :victory:

Originally Posted by FusionTiger

it's roughly going for around >S$450 or >US$220.



wow hey, by the way. I have just only noticed that you have joined this forums somewhere in april 2002, and this is your first post? Interesting. :victory:

yeah its pretty weird
i thought i havent joined this forum
so i went to register
Hyper was taken
then i went with my usual forum name and wham bam its used ?
i tried my password and got in
how weird !

anyway ... when will this muvo be available in the states
I want to get my hands on it

what would it be its X rating like ... fast CF cards are like 40X or so ... ?

[cccp]

its not really fast on the D70 as noted by the photographer using it.

anyone wanna verify this works on canon?

Originally Posted by cccp

its not really fast on the D70 as noted by the photographer using it.

anyone wanna verify this works on canon?

darn.... I guess I'll just go out and get an ultra 2 card from sandisk

Originally Posted by cccp

its not really fast on the D70 as noted by the photographer using it.

anyone wanna verify this works on canon?

Yes, It works well on my Canon 300D.
Can anyone tell me which CF card works well w e new muvo2 5gb? my transend card dont work when replaced. :sad2:

Originally Posted by chilicrap

Yes, It works well on my Canon 300D.
Can anyone tell me which CF card works well w e new muvo2 5gb? my transend card dont work when replaced. :sad2:

300d is a nice camera
im looking forard to getting my hands on the 20D ... oh its gonna be a beautiful day ... soemthing like :jump:

[cccp]

Originally Posted by chilicrap

Yes, It works well on my Canon 300D.
Can anyone tell me which CF card works well w e new muvo2 5gb? my transend card dont work when replaced. :sad2:

from what i heard sandisk works fine

You may want to try the kingston CF, works well with the orginal Muvo2 (4 gb version)

Ok, I've been doing some reading on this all over the 'net, and have some questions and comments.

This can be done with the 5gb Rio Carbon as well, which some Best Buys in the U.S. have in stock. People are having very limited success with installing flash memory cards in the Carbon after taking the Seagate drive out though. Some people suspect that it's a case of the carbon only working with flash cards that are capable of True IDE mode, which not many flash cards are, but there's no confirmation on that yet. It'd be cool to find out if that's the case with the MuVe2 FM too.

There has been one person who claims to have taken the 5gb drive out of their Carbon, and installed their 4gb Microdrive from an iPod (the fixed drives that don't work in cameras). They said that after they installed the Carbon firmware on the Microdrive, they took it back out and put it in their camera AND IT WORKED! Anybody that can confirm that this works with a Carbon OR MuVo2 FM will get my vote for president

[tenankers]

well heard that creative ppl know about our review and is rushing out a firmware lock to lock the seagate 5 GB hdd to be usable on muvo only

[lightz]

Originally Posted by tenankers

well heard that creative ppl know about our review and is rushing out a firmware lock to lock the seagate 5 GB hdd to be usable on muvo only

the firmware lock is already implemented on the later batches of MuVo2 4GB...
Wonder why didn't they implement on the 5GB products...

[cccp]

must be because of the deadline to launch this product during the warehouse sale period

I'm actually interested in the MuVo2 FM as a music player.

Do you have a closeup picture of the front?
Is the selection button much improved over the earlier models?
What is the built in radio like? Good reception?

Does it come packaged with a case & what is the remote that is mentioned?

Is the menu system different with any autoplaylist creation?


I'm looking to get one but not much info about yet.

What do you think of the player. The only other I would be considering is the Rio Carbon but seeing as that doesn't have an FM tuner or removable battery the MuVo2 FM is my main choice (like look of the Carbon though).

I have a 1.5GB MuVo2 so am confortable with size but the menu selector isn't great.

Would appreciate any advice/opinion.