Wolverine MVP-9060 60 GB Portable Storage and Multimedia Viewer

by Wolverine

Product Details

• Item Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BYU63Q
• Item model number: 9060
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #119,495 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

More than just a multimedia player/viewer, the 60 GB Wolverine MVP-9060 is also the perfect companion for professional photographers and traveling with a digital camera. It offers direct download capability from seven types of popular memory card formats: CompactFlash, MicroDrive, Secure Digital (SD), MultiMedia (MMC), Memory Stick and MS Pro, Smart Media, and XD Picture Cards. And it displays photos and videos on its brilliant 2.5-inch LCD screen.

Store thousands of photos and hundreds of hours of music and video on the 60 GB hard drive. It's compatible with MP3, WMA, and AAC music files, as well as AVI (Motion-JPEG), MOV (Motion-JPEG), MPEG- 1, MPEG-4 and DivX-5.x video formats with sound. It's also compatible with JPEG, TIFF, and BMP. It connects to PCs (Windows, Linux, or Mac operating systems) via a USB 2.0 connection.

The high capacity 1800 mA/h rechargeable and interchangeable Li-ion internal battery allows up to 20 GB of memory card data transfer, eight hours of music playback, 3.5 hours of photo or video playback on a single charge.

Other features include:

• Built-in digital voice and line-in recorder
• Display your photos and videos onto TVs (PAL / NTSC) or projectors using video and audio line-out
• Includes IR remote control

What's in the Box
Wolverine MVP multimedia viewer/player, earphones, USB cable, AC power adapter, remote control, video and audio cables, audio line-in cable, carry bag, installation CD-ROM, printed instructions

Product Description

Enjoy the freedom to store and playback photos, videos and music-all without being tethered to a computer. The Wolverine MVP with built-in 7 in 1 memory card readers is the perfect companion to any digital camera. Transfer photos, video, audio and data files directly from memory cards to this portable repository so that you can use your memory cards over and over again. This travel-friendly battery operated device is ideal for any application, both personal and professional, to store data, view photos, watch movies or listen to music. Display your photos and videos onto TV's or projectors using video (NTSC/PAL TV) and audio line-out Photo Viewer - JPEG/TIFF/BMP/RAW (selected digital cameras) Video formats - MPEG-/MPEG-4/DivX-5.x / Audio formats - MP3/WMA /AAC/WAV Rechargeable internal battery - transfer up to 20GB of data or play 8 hours of music or 3.5 hours of video on a single charge Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface / Compatible with MS windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Mac OS9 and above 2.5 inch high resolution TFT LCD Color display Portable, compact size - 5.04 x 3.01 x1.2 (LxWxH) / Weighs only 10 ounces

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wolverine vs. Ipod. The only "con" is the color., February 20, 2006

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Villa (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wolverine MVP-9060 60 GB Portable Storage and Multimedia Viewer (Electronics)

I saw this media player by accident while looking into an ipod. I was having a hard time deciding between the ipod and a Creative Zen Vision (the big one) because both had many negative reviews online.

While at my local Fry's I see it there. I asked the guys there about it and nobody could tell me about it. So I called my brother to look up some user reviews online and they were all positive.

This was enough for me to buy it and take it home. I wasn't planning on opening it until I researched it myself. After finding nothing but positive reviews, I took a chance and opened the package.

This thing is awesome!
I don't own an Ipod, but can give you some differences between them after researching both.

With this media player you do not need special software like Itunes. It is read like an external hard drive on your system because it is an external hard drive. If you have Windows XP or Mac OS 10.1 you don't even need to install drivers. This was a big plus for me. I don't like idea of having extra software on my computer.

You can drag and drop files straight onto the player. You can even add non-media files like text files, etc.

The device supports 7 media cards as well. Ipod does not. You can take pictures on your digital camera and pop your card right in to either view or download. To get photos on Ipod, you need to add them through Itunes.

The MVP9060 even supports many Windows video formats as well as quicktime .mov files. With an ipod, you'll need to buy quicktime pro to convert videos to a usable format that Ipod can read.

The package was also complete with everything I need to get going. It comes with an ac power adapter. With Ipod, you have to charge through usb or buy an additional ac power charger. It comes with the wiring needed to view videos and photos on your TV. You have to buy those separate for Ipod as well.

The only bad thing I have to say is that the color was not a good choice. On the box it looks like a cheap "made in China" toy. Don't let that fool you, it is a wonderful player.

It's also a little bulky, but I couldn't care less. Good luck to you in finding a perfect media player.

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gadget for the Geek, December 17, 2005

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Sam Clemens "Sam" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wolverine MVP-9060 60 GB Portable Storage and Multimedia Viewer (Electronics)

The Wolverine MVP is a fascinating piece of technology.... rougher around the edges then the video iPod, the current benchmark for Personal Video Players, but still very useful. It is a USB 2.0 device which functions as 60/100gb hard drive, mp3 player and video player. It has a lot of functions which I won't get into there, but will highlight my personal reaction.

PRO: (1) uses a 2.5 drive, which means it is probably upgradable, (2) it uses a user replacable digital camera battery which means that battery life is not a problem (I priced them at $5 for generics on eBay, (3) the built-in flash memory card slots work really well and are the best thing about this product.
CONS: (1) the unit is largish but understandable given the drive and slots, (2) the finish is bright red shiny plastic, a bit garnish, but cool in a retro way, (3) the unit locked up a couple of times apparently because of mp3 file format, but I couldn't quite figure it out, (4) same problem with video file formats, won't show some files, but I didn't have it long enought to figure it out.

CONCLUSION: The interface will scare off those used to the iPod's, but it is quite similar to that on the Archos, gMini personal video players. So if you like the styling and the plastic finish, the screen is decent, although not as good as the video iPod. I didn't keep the unit, because I have an iPod for digital camera files and don't need the video functionality. The video output was quite good when hooked up to a screen, although there were artifacts when the scene had a lot of motion.

TIP FOR iTunes OSX users: I used the program SyncTunes to transfer over my mp3 files from my iTunes collection. The playlist didn't make it but the file structure was preserved.

59 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Satisfied for the most part, so far, July 14, 2006

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IcemanJ (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wolverine MVP-9060 60 GB Portable Storage and Multimedia Viewer (Electronics)

When I decided I wanted an mp3 player, I did quite a bit of research because for as much as they all cost, I wanted it to work exactly the way I wanted. I wanted video support and at least 60 gigs of space. I wanted to be able to easily transfer any kind of file from computer to computer. I wanted to use this as a backup/storage device as much as listening to it; so if the hard drive on my PC crashes I can still have my mp3 collection that I can upload back on to a new HD. According to all the reviews I've read the Wolverine seemed to be more dependable and have fewer annoyances.

Reasons why I did NOT go with the following brands: (I did not actually own any of these, just did a lot of reading up)

Ipod:
- Have to use iTunes to manage your collection and transfer songs; have to convert all mp3's to m4a's.
- Have to BUY QuickTime Pro just to convert movies to watch on the iPod, or buy the videos off iTunes (which you cant share with others)
- Everyone says the first time you wipe the screen to clean it you see a million tiny scratches.
- Quite a few complaints about the system failing after a few months or a year.
- Bad technical support reported.
- No AC Power adapter included which you need to recharge it.
- Not to mention, this is more expensive than all the other brands already.
- Battery can only be recharged so many times and you cannot replace it yourself, you have to send it into Apple, pay shipping costs and labor costs for them doing the work, instead of simply being able to buy your own battery and put it in yourself.

Cowon iAudio X5:
- Maximum number of files allowed is 10,000. Why make a hard drive that can hold 15,000 songs and limit the number to 10,000? I don't get it. This was my only complaint about this product and I would have seriously considered buying this if it wasn't for that limit.

Creative Nomad Zen Xtra:
- Seems to be Discontinued...
- Headphone Jack seems to easily break according to reviews
- Unit seems to easily break
- No Video

Toshiba Gigabeat MEG F60S: (MES60VK wasn't out yet, but looks pretty decent)
- No Video
- Mp3's must be converted to ".SAT" format and cannot be put back on the computer or on a different computer. Sorry, next brand...

iRiver:
- biggest one is 40gig. What a shame. My music collection is 45 gigs and I want some extra space for videos.


Reasons why I like the WOLVERINE MVP-9060 over other players

- Plug-and-play & Drag-and-drop. Plug it into a rear USB Port and drag and drop your files just like moving them from one folder to another on the computer. Done. No converting, no software to install, and they transfer pretty quickly. One thing is, the base folders must be organized like \Data, \Media, \Backup, and \System; and \Media is further divided into \Music, \Photos, \Videos, and \Voice. But it's quite self-explanatory and not really a limitation or annoyance.
- AC power adapter included.
- Replaceable battery.
- Audio and Video Jacks included. I didn't even know this at the time but you can hook it straight up to your stereo system and play it through the speakers, and also hook up the screen to your TV while choosing songs and such. (also to watch videos and view pictures) If I'm not mistaken, if you wanted to do this with an iPod you have to buy an entire stereo system just for the iPod that is another $300. Along with buying Quicktime, and a AC Power adapter, you're getting all these features on a Wolverine for $350 and the same features on an iPod would cost you $750, not to mention all your songs, videos and stereo system is all converted to Apple mode and isn't compatible with anything else. No thanks!
- For people like me who have massive music collections and want their ENTIRE music collection on their player, they have great hard drive capacities. This unit is available in 60, 80, 100, and 120 gig hard drives. Twice as big as any other company offers. If I had too much money that I knew what to do with I probably would have got the 120 gig one.
- The 7-in-1 data card reader is very nice. I dont need to worry about my usb-camera cable or installing the camera software to get my photo's on a pc.

Cons with the WOLVERINE
- Bulky compared to other Mp3 players, but still is a good size I think. I used to put a portable CD player in my pocket and this is slightly more than half the size. I have big pockets.
- Filenames only display the first 30 characters. This was the main issue for me but I got around it. My files were originally all in one folder named like this: "Artist - Album - Track # - Song Title," so almost all the titles would be cut off in the middle of the album name, sometimes even on the artist name. However, I organized my collection into separate folders for each artist, and if the album names were long, then separate folders for each album. It's much easier to find stuff on my computer now, and on the wolverine too because I couldn't imagine scrolling through 10-15 thousand songs in the same folder, it would take an hour to find what you wanted.
- When you put it on "random" it only plays the current folder. To get around this IcemanJ loads every single song into Winamp, shuffles the playlist, takes only the first 100 or 500 songs and saves the playlist IN THE ROOT \MUSIC FOLDER and then COPIES it to the root music folder of the Wolverine. You CANT save it straight to the wolverine because the m3u file will write full filename paths to the music on your computer and it is _most likely_ not in folders called <root>\Media\Music unless you specifically set it up like that. You can do this many times for a different random playlist every day, and delete the old ones when you get more in your collection. It is very simple.
- Temporary playlists are kind of weird. You don't want to have everything in the same folder because it will always "pre-load" everything in the folder when you play one song in it and that is unnecessary and probably wasting the battery. You can go to "play in background" and add songs in order when the current one finishes but it still has to finish the folder for the first song you added. So you have to skip to the newest song you added, but only after the first song. Not that big of a deal. I'm just picky.
- (Edit, July 30) Took me a month to figure out how to pause a song (simply press the joystick in while listening)
- The FPS for the video is noticeably slower than a TV or Computer screen's FPS. And some of my videos don't take up the whole screen, it looks like they could be proportionally enlarged. Oh well.
- It displays ID3 Tags, but only ID3v2 so if your mp3 has ID3v1 it won't display.

So far, what I've read has been pretty accurate, and I think the pros outweigh the cons on this unit compared to other brands. I'm satisfied.

Happy Hunting,
IcemanJ