A few scribbles on the Polaroid PMP-700-4
This is a media player sold at Big Lots and probably other clearance stores on the when their gone, their gone basis. While the slim pamphlet says it only supports plain text and LRC (Karaoke lyrics), I found thru trial and error that it sorta supports Mobipocket (mobi), fictionwise (fb2) and pdf files in the ebook reader. It will display them and using the top scroller, can navigate by page (more or less) but table of content entries are not clickable. Which means to me its use to hold shop manuals is nil but ok for reading novels, etc.
Video and audio files generally play as long as the video size does not exceed 800×480 (or so) . NTSC 16:9 dvd ready files do play sized to the display but there is drop out occasionally. X264 encoded video is problematic, however, since I prefer avi format, not a problem to me.
Will leave aside the interface which is functional but spartan.
I posted some findings with this same player on my blog as well. Since the manual that came with it really doesn’t specify the supported files and formats, I’ve done a bit of trial-and-error too.
mykmyrs
December 15, 2011 at 6:09 pm
[...] audiobook support sucks. It plays *.txt files, *.lrc files and simple text-based PDF files. I read a post here that claims it supports Mobipocket (mobi) and fictionwise (fb2) formats, but I have not [...]
Polaroid PMP700-4 7″ Digital Media Player « Myk Myrs
December 15, 2011 at 6:29 pm