I have had the KISS DP-500 for a day now and here are some initial thoughts.
The machine looks rather nice but the CD sledge is gray plastic and looks very cheap when opened.
The Divx3 support comes first in June (they announced yesterday)
You cannot stream any other movies than mpeg4 avi. I.e. MPEG1/2 cannot be streamed.
The webradio feature is rather nice, where you select radio channels at their site and design radio menu. The player “hanged” after playing radio for about 20 minutes though. Not so good.
You cannot fast forward in MPEG4 movies but they claim to have a time search function instead. On some movies this alternative comes up but after doing a seek the video is all choppy, and in other movies it doesn’t come up at all (i.e. nothing happens when you press the button on the remote).
The remote has way more buttons than are used. Rather confusing.
The menu system should be looked over by someone that knows UI design.
You can zoom in the video which is nice.
I added my whole MP3 collection (several thousand of MP3s) to the KISS PC-LINK software and now I have a very good MP3 jukebox.
They state that DVD+R/RW aren’t supported but at least DVD+RW works fine for me.
The photo album part needs more work. It scales the images to way less than PAL resolution and you cannot zoom into the pictures.
Support hasn’t still answered my email I sent them 4 days ago. Big minus!
All in all, I think it is a very good machine and if they could release the Divx3 support then it would be perfect.
During the last weekend I set up a new forum at www.marratech.com. I used the PHPBB software which is very powerful! If you are a Marratech user, check it out! I looks rather good 🙂
I had a long and intensive evening with Tovah. First we went to the library and borrowed and number of story and animal books. Then we went on to MAX a got some fries and a hamburger, which we ate at home. Followed by BolliBompa and some ice cream. Now I am really tired, good night. CU tomorrow and don’t let the bed bugs bite.
Just got back from Ida’s birthday pre-party and we had a marvelous strawberry cake (yummy)!! Congratulations Ida and hipp hipp Hurray! 🙂
The real party is tomorrow evening for anybody interested. Just invite yourselves 🙂
Summer in Riksgränsen. Tovah contemplating over a rock at 1200 meters above the sea level. Her carrier is in the back.The photo was taken in July 2001. More from this series…. We go here every summer as the University has an apartment here in a prefect place for hikes into both Norway and Sweden.
Finis Origine Pendet, loosely translated means “The end depends upon the beginning.” The quotation is taken out of context from the Astronomica of Manilius. This is the great academic motto of the Phillips Exeter Academy (real) as well as the St. Benedict’s Academy for Boys (Hollywood fiction) in the movie The Emperor’s Club. It is a great story about a teachers that strongly believes in good and right and put his strongest hopes onto a young son of a senator whom unfortunately disappoints his teacher by cheating. Being a university teacher myself, I feel strong sympathies for the situation presented in the movie and it really go to me. 10 stars to the movie The Emperor’s Club.
Finis Origine Pendet, The end depends upon the beginning.
SPring is back and I honored it by taking out my bike again and riding 9.74 Km in high pace (which means in my untrained condition a mean speed of 18.5 Km/h). Wooohooo. I feel good! 🙂
En dag som du inte lär dig något nytt, är en förlorad dag!
