Purchase Centon 2GB moVox MP4 Player - 2GBMP4-001

First off, I want to emphasize that although I'm giving this product 1 star, Amazon deserves a lot of credit for their excellent refund service, which was quick and easy.

This player uses the same ACTION chipset that those Chinese-made imitation iPods you can buy on eBay do. The difference is basically the casing and the fact that you can buy those for $[...] less. Good luck returning them back to China, though, which is why I went with Amazon. Also, most of the imitation iPods have a memory hack that creates the impression of the player having twice as much RAM as it actually does. This CENTON does not have that issue. It is a true 2 GB player.

I had just just such an ACTION chipset imitation iPod for nearly two years; it had the same operating system and user interface as this CENTON. That player served me well for nearly two years of rough use and continued working perfectly before I lost it on a bus. This CENTON on the other hand worked beautifully for two days, then bright lines started appearing on screen. These lines became worse and were permanent, making the screen, and player, unusable.

Maybe this was the one that slipped through quality control, and is just a fluke, but I still wouldn't recommend buying one after my experience.

Also, the player sent did not match the picture in the Amazon ad. The one I got had several silver buttons on the front.

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I've noticed that some people who bought this and similar players complain that they can't play videos. This is not so. Here's an explanation. These types of players can only play a specific kind of video format called ".amv". You have to convert your mp4's and avi's to the .amv format first. You can download the software that performs this conversion from the manufacturer's website, if it doesn't come with the player itself. Once you load the amv videos on these players, they play just fine.Get more detail about Centon 2GB moVox MP4 Player - 2GBMP4-001.