Panasonic SV-SD85 e-wear SD Audio/MP3 Player with 128 MB SD Memory Card

by Panasonic

Product Details

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• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000AXKBI
• Item model number: SV-SD85
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #204,901 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

With wearability and fashionability in mind, the SV-SD85 is one of the smallest SD Audio players available, a mere 1-3/4 inches tall. You can wear it around your neck or put it in the included water-resistant case that straps right onto your arm. The SV-SD85 weighs less than an ounce (without the battery), so it won't get in the way of your active lifestyle.

The SV-SD85 comes with a slim, rechargeable battery that fits right into the body of the unit and provides up to 18 hours of playback. You can get up to 50 hours of playback when using it together with one AAA alkaline battery in the included battery case. That's over two days worth of music with one rechargeable and one AAA alkaline battery.

Play back MP3, WMA, and AAC files with the SV-SD85's built-in triple decoder. The SV-SD85 also comes with SD Jukebox software that allows you to retrieve your existing MP3 and WMA files, and burn CDs into high quality AAC files.

The included SD Jukebox software allows you to organize all your songs by title, artist, and genre. It even has a Mood Analyzer that analyses and classifies music into different categories. You can then instantly select songs by feeling or mood.

The SV-SD85 comes with a 128 MB SD Memory Card to hold all your MP3, WMA and AAC music files. And since the SV-SD85 uses SD Memory Cards, its memory capacity can expand up to the size of the SD Memory Card being used in the player.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I really, really want to like this player, but...., November 24, 2003

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Fungus "FTB" (Valencia, Spain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Panasonic SV-SD85 e-wear SD Audio/MP3 Player with 128 MB SD Memory Card (Electronics)

I really, really want to like this player. It's small, it's cute, it's got "unlimited" memory via cheapo SD cards, it's got really neat accessories and an amazing battery life... but tomorrow I'm returning it to the store where I bought it.

Why?

Simple. The UNBELIEVEABLY stupid "anti piracy" features they put into it.

No, You can't just copy your mp3 files to the player and listen to them. The player only wirks with specially encrypted files. To use it with an mp3 file you have to use the special software to "check" the files into and out of your hard drive

And yes, the files on your hard drive ARE MODIFIED for some evil reason when you check them out. Don't ask me why or what happens if I stick the card in my camera and format it without "checking" the mp3 files that were on it back into my hard drive. I don't know, and I'm not waiting to find out.

And OF COURSE the upload software is horrible to use, and YES it fails to install properly until the tenth try. Even then it took me ten minutes to get it to recognize the special SD card writer they supply. I mean, what else could it do?

What on earth were they thinking? They took this beautiful little gadget that somebody had designed and totally ruined it. Their hardware guys must be crying right now.

Did they think this system will somehow keep me from "pirating" the mp3 files THAT ARE *ALREADY* ON MY HARD DISK??

Whatever. Tomorrow I'll go and swap it for something by Creative or iRiver or something. Anything but Panasonic.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional hardware, bad software., September 11, 2003

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Alberto Rojas (Santiago, Chile) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Panasonic SV-SD85 e-wear SD Audio/MP3 Player with 128 MB SD Memory Card (Electronics)

It's tiny, it's easy to use, has excellent battery life, and it sounds great. They had to spoil it someplace. The software, as usual.
Instead of letting you copy MP3/WMA/AAC files directly from Windows explorer, you are required to encrypt them and use their proprietary software. You can't even use your own SD card writer; the software won't recognize other than the one supplied.
I don't get it. Who at Panasonic could have made such a terrible decision, allegedly to "procect music copyright". Stop the BS... if I want to, I can pirate those songs even using the supplied SD Card reader. It's just that they won't play on the SV-SD85 if thet are not encrypted with the software.
Hopefully a better software will come out (if it were at least integrated into Windows explorer, I wouldn't complain so much).
Don't get me wrong; it's still a great buy. Besides, it seems that all players use some kind of proprietary software.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WARNING: Can not use protected music files, even leaglly pur, April 22, 2004

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rajco20 (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Panasonic SV-SD85 e-wear SD Audio/MP3 Player with 128 MB SD Memory Card (Electronics)

WARNING: The Panasonic SD-80 does not allow any protected files to be uploaded, legally purchased or not. It a great little player, the right size and lots of functionality BUT, if you can't upload your favorite music its not very functional. Since the future trend is to purchase songs rather than albums, more and more music will be purchased off Internet sites. None of these songs will be useable on the SD-80 and Panasonic has stated it has no intention of revising the software to allow the upload of legally purchased protected files. Great little player, BUT A WASTE OF MONEY.