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COWON A2 Portable Video Player

Cowon a2Some movies or clips are just too good to pass. And sometimes, we just have too much time eating at our hands, especially when we are traveling or getting stranded at nowhere. To reconcile both scenarios, and a lot more, we found out about the Cowon A2 portable video player with its bright and crisp 4-inch wide-screen LCD, perfect for the most perfect movies or any visual treat for that matter.

Cowon a2The Cowon A2 portable video player has a clean and visually appealing form and interface which makes just looking at it a treat in itself. It also performs well with great audio, coming equipped also with an excellent FM radio with great recording quality. Of course, to play all these treats the Cowon A2 portable video player also comes with a long battery life and supports a multitude of audio and video formats. The rated battery life for the Cowon A2 is up to 18 hours. Its other functions include a voice recorder, a photo viewer with zoom and a PVR. Also, it can conveniently serve as an A/V line-in cable, instead of a hub, for doing all the dirty work while recording audio and video tracks. Needless to say, the Cowon A2 portable video player can support an amazing number of formats and resolutions of video files without having to go through the tedious video conversion. Because of these numerous formats, the Cowon A2 portable video player also included a software to convert all the non-compatible files and chances are, this player can play any video files you throw at it. It also comes with the latest firmware update (v 1.61E) which will enable you to multitask so that you can view photos or text while listening to some great music simultaneously.

General Specifications 

Size 133.4(W) x 78.5(H) x 22(T) mm
Weight 298g (10 oz
Video  
Display 4 inch, 480x272 Resolution,
16,000K Color, Digital TFT LCD
Video Format NTSC / PAL
Audio  
Channel Stereo
Frequency Range 20Hz ~ 20KHz
Max Output 16 Ohm earphones : 32mW + 32mW
SNR 95dB
Built-in Speaker Stereo
Built-in Microphone Mono
FM Radio  
Frequency Range 87.5~108 MHz (KR,US,EU)
76~108 Mhz (JP)
   
Power  
Built-in Battery Built-in Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery 4300mAh
Battery Charging  
Time Takes 5hours to fully charged
AC Adapter DC 5.0V, 2A
Capacity  
Hard Disk

1.8inch 20G / 30G, FAT32 File system

USB Interface  
USB Device

USB 2.0 High Speed (Max. 480Mbps)

USB Host USB 2.0 Full Speed (Max. 12Mbps)
   
Software Specifications  
Movie Player  
File Format AVI, ASF, WMV
Video Codec DivX 3.11/4/5, XviD, MPEG4, WMV9(MP@LL), MPEG1
Video Resolution Max. 800x576, 30 fps
Audio Codec MP3, AC3 Downmix, WMA
Audio Resolution Max. 48KHz, 448 Kbps
Subtitle SMI Format
Max. Continuous  
Playback time Max. 10 hours
   
Music Player  
File Format MP3, WMA (ASF),OGG, FLAC, WAV
Audio Codec MPEG 1/2/2.5 Layer 3, WMA (ASF), Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Wave
Audio Resolution

8Kbps ~ 1.4Mbps
(Up to OGG Q10 & FLAC Level 0~8)
ID3 Tag ID3 V1, ID3 V2.2/V2.3/V2.4

Lyrics LDB
EQ 5Band, 7set
(Normal, Rock, Jazz, Classic, Pop, Vocal, User)
Sound Effect Jet Effect
  (BBE, Mach3Bass, MP3 Enhance, 3D Surround)
Visualization Sound Spectrum, Album/ID3 Meta Image
Max. Continuous  
Playback time Max.18 hours
   
Photo Viewer  
File Format JPG, BMP, PNG
Video Codec JPG - Unlimited Pixel (File size up to 6.5M byte)
JPG(Progressive type) : Max. 1.6M Pixel
PNG - Max. 2.1M Pixel, 1.6M Pixel(include Alpha channel)

BMP - Max. 2.1M(24bit), 1.6M(32bit),

 
   
Text Viewer  
File Format TXT<EUC-KR (Korean), EUC-JP(Japanese), GB2312 (S.Chinese), Big5(T.Chinese), ISO-8859-1(Latin), UTF-8
File Size

Unlimited

   
AV Recording  
File Format ASF
Video Codec MPEG4 (Max. 640x480, 1Mbps)
Audio Codec MPEG-1 Layer 3 (Max. 44.1KHz, 192Kbps)
   
Line-in, Mic. Radio Recoding  
File Format MP3
Video Codec MPEG-1 Layer 3
Audio Resolution Max. 44.1kHz, 192Kbps
   
Playable media files  
File+Folder 15,000

Notice of GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
This product has some free software which are copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation and the library includes the software is subject to the observance of the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.

System Requirements

PC  
CPU : Pentium II 200Mhz or Higher
  Windows XP / 2000 / ME / 98SE
MAC OS 9.x, 10.x (Only data transfer supported)
RAM : 128MB or More
CD-ROM Drive  

DirectX 9 or higher
Windows Media Player 9 or higher
QuickTime 6 or higher

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