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* EPSON P-3000 Quirk list (or a Review in Bullet Points) *
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I was excited to receive my Epson P-3000 a couple of weeks ago. This little bit of not-so-miniature tech is a sort of jack-of-all trades in the realm of file transfer and playback.

I won't go into the nitty gritty deets of what it can do since you can peep them elsewheres, but here are the bits of info that I did not find elsewhere before I bought this thing:

1. You cannot (as far as I can tell), run a photo slide show while listening to music. The exception is that if you set up some photos as your screensaver, it'll play while you listen to music.

2. Selecting files for move, copy, delete operations from the device's UI can be a pain. You have to select each one individually. There is no way to select a bunch of files all at the same time for deletion (except by deleting the entire folder). There should be a "select from here...to here" feature that makes selecting a sequence of files easier.

3. Also acts as a card reader for a PC.

4. Does not charge via USB and cannot charge other USB devices. Also USB powered devices don't seem to work with it (as evidenced by my 2.5in portable 60GB drive not working with it).

5. User interface is very quick except when just after dropping new Divx files on there. It can freeze for several seconds while it see what files are there and tries to create a screenshot icon for them.

6. You can choose a still frame from a video clip to be the clip's icon. Neat.

7. It outputs to a TV via RCA cables for easy viewing of anything on the device.

8. The screen is NICE. The speaker is not so nice.

9. It can copy stuff to/from external drives (powered ones only it seems...see #4 above). So if you have another external drive that is powered, the Epson P-3000 can copy to/from that external drive without a PC.

10. Music playback is a little sparse. It works well enough but does not show album art (perhaps my files did not have them properly embedded since iTunes doesn't quite do the trick and I don't have time to fix them all up properly).

The trade off for all of the functionality and the gorgeous 4" screen is a little chunkiness (it definitely is not pocketable). Surprising it's not that heavy so it can't be packed to the gills with electronics. At any rate, it's a solid device and my new fav. If it had wifi, an rss reader, and a bitorrent client, I would have it surgically attached to my body so I would never had to be apart from it.












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