PANASONIC Portable MP3 Player

by Panasonic

Product Details

Product Manual [605kb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 1.9 x 2.9 inches ; 8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006LIKD
• Item model number: SVDS50
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #420,130 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 16, 2002

Product Description

This MP3 Recorder and Player doesn't play tapes or discs. There are no moving parts. If you own a computer and access the Internet (dial or broadband) you can download music files from various websites. It's the next wave of music portability. Catch the wave now. Multifunction screen Frequency Response - 20 Hz to 20,000Hz Panasonic Media Manager CD-ROM Includes RealOne Software Fast Data Transfer using USB port Selectable S-XBS Multiple playback modes Size (H x W x D) - 2 13/15 x 1 15/16 x 7/8 Weighs about 2 ounces with battery Includes - Earbud Stereo headphones, CD-ROM with software, USB reader/writer, 64MB SD memory card, Neck Strap

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very Good player; absolutely appalling software, May 8, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: PANASONIC Portable MP3 Player (Electronics)

The sound quality is excellent, the player works beautifully and it's easy to use. BUT getting your music onto the memory card is painful. You can ONLY do it with RealOne's software - you can't drag and drop an mp3 file to the card. The RealOne software is buggy, slow and takes over your PC. It took a good deal of time to reset my PC back to how it should work with the music file associations as I like it and adverts removed.

Using RealOne is a pain. It frequently fails to transfer the music, giving unhelpful error messages so you have to keep clicking the "transfer" button until eventually it succeeds in transferring the music over. And when you get a new memory card, formatting it takes forever because RealOne keeps failing. You have to click "format" over and over until eventually it works.

At first, I thought it was a problem with my PC but if you check out the online forums, you'll find the problems I mention are common.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Im a transformed man..., December 6, 2002

By 

leebo "World Affairs Junkie" (dallas, tx) - See all my reviews

This review is from: PANASONIC Portable MP3 Player (Electronics)

Well, I must say that it took me a while before I decided to switch over to the mp3 player. I have about 6 gig's worth of music on my computer and it was about time to because I have about 500 burnt CD's that I lose track of...Anyways, this mp3 thing is quite revolutionary, and by the rapid decline of prices, it will become the new music media for the next generation. First I have to say that they state the size of this thing, but that does not do it justice. It is so small and light. I have showed it to most of my(cd listening) friends, and I nor they could believe how small it was. It has been a month now and I could not be more pleased. It is nothing short of revolutionary. And I do not work for Panasonic. But one of the main reasons I bought it was because of their past performance with me. I own a few panasonic devices. I even have a home stereo from them that survived an apt. fire(except for the cd player-ironic?), and it still sounds wonderful. Panasonic seems to have competitve prices and keeps putting out quality products. This player also comes with a separate SDMMC Card drive ( for all those that dont understand all the new terminology-compactflash-smartmedia-etc., picture a very small floppy disc-postage stamp size-that holds 30 times more data than an old floppy-wow!!) and
a 64 meg SDMMC card.The sound is great, but buy some good quality sony headphones and sound becomes exceptional. When I run or ride my bike I am basically in another dimension while I blast my music (cheesy line but true), and the AAA battery has lasted more than 3 weeks at loud levels. There are only two drawbacks to this miracle of a music player. The Software-Real One attempts to monopolize your system upon installation, feel free to ask me questions on how to avoid this-and it only comes with a neck strap. This player would be more than perfect with a beltclip or an arm strap, and a radio tuner. But hopefully that will be in next year's model! And one more thing, I dont know why there is almost no advertising for MP3 players at local electronics stores with over 100 on the market. Perhaps because of the whole controversy of copyright infringement and ease of file trading with MP3's. ...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Like it - but don't like the RealOne software, April 2, 2003

By 

J. Abercrombie "Scott in Calgary" (Calgary, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: PANASONIC Portable MP3 Player (Electronics)

I really like this unit - but find it incredible that I have to use RealOne software (read "AdWare")to transfer my tunes.
Sound is great, unit is small, love the "hold" button feature.

Just lose RealOne and it would be so much better.