Wolverine MVP-9100 100 GB Portable Storage and Multimedia Viewer

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BYVR66
• Item model number: 9100
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #67,981 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 10, 2006

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

More than just a multimedia player/viewer, the 100 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 100 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. Built-in Digital Voice and line-in recorder 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 Portable, compact size - 5.04 x 3.01 x1.2 (LxWxH) / Weighs only 10 ounces Other included accessories - USB cable, CD driver, AC/DC Universal 100-240V auto switch power adapter, A/V cables, Remote Control, Audio Line-In Cable

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Multimedia Player, January 7, 2006

By	A. Sharma - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I recently brought the 60GB version from J and R. It is more bulky than the average MP3 player or the video IPOD. However, it is more elegant than the pictures reveal. It is somewhat garish with its red color and the size and dimensions are big so that is impractical if one wants to carry it in the pocket. On the other hand it works beautifully with Windows, does not need itunes and has the drag and drop functionality when connected to the PC. In addition, you can delete and organize files without the computer. I have been listening to the MP3 player in my car nd it plays beautifully. The shuffle function works well. There are several different folders that lets one organize pictures and videos. I also downloaded all the pictures from my camera using the SD card slot. The display is wide and resolution is good. Overall, excellent and works well!

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's so-so..., March 21, 2006

By	A. Acero (NY, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

[...] I'm afraid that I'm not very impressed, but I come to the Wolverine after setting up and extensively playing with a friend's ipod nano. The Wolverine came with lots of cables (good), and a ridiculous carrying pouch with an external speaker that more than doubles the size of the unit (bad). The unit itself is rather large and seems to be fragile -- it doesn't look like it would survive a significant fall. The current firmware (v 1.2.4) is not very good. When I'm playing a video and try to go back to the file listing, the screen goes black and the unit needs to be powercycled or reset. The data itself is all there, it's just that the unit won't display the file listing until it's powercycled or reset -- you would've thought that would've been ironed out during QA testing.

Pros:
nice screen, decent sound quality, rechargable battery, lots of cables supplied, easy file management (no Itunes required!), 7-way memory card reader

Cons:
flaky firmware (keep a paper clip handy), bulky size, sparse manual, lack of sensible holster or armband to tote the fragile looking device around, limited playback options, cost

I'm tempted to rate this 2 stars because I am disappointed with my purchase, but I'll give it 3 on the hope that future firmware will render it more stable and usable.

Jan 8, 2007 update: Later firmware releases *did* tremendously improve the stability of the unit! If you're having the kinds of stability problems I mention above, you can get the latest firmware from Wolverine Data's support site: [...]

At this point it's been over 8 month since a paper clip was needed. The Wolverine has also proven to be fairly sturdy, although we still haven't performed a drop test, and certainly wouldn't want to risk it.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for Photographers, August 11, 2006

By	Dr. Nick (New Haven, CT) - See all my reviews

I entrusted a whole trip of photos from Alaska and Vancouver to this device and it worked beautifully. I use a Nikon D70 and had over 2600 pictures on this thing and it didn't hiccup. Photo download speed is very fast. I would recommend this to photographers looking for a more econimical databin that others that are availabe (IE Epson).

The screen is just ok, but you can see what your pictures look like, and your EXIF info. I had no trouble watching movies on this device, it seems to have enough battery life for over one DVD movie. MP3s work fine as well, but it cannot sort or browse by ID tag info, which is a bummer cause that is how my library is arranged. You can work around this. It's not as slick as an Ipod (which I also have), but the Wolverine is so much better for photographers.

Don't know if I would recommend it for someone looking for just an MP3 and Video player,it is huge compared to most of them, but for someone like me who needs a databin for images in the field, this thing is great. In addition, the battery is use replaceable and I hear it is dead simple to swap in a bigger hard drive.

Highly recommended. I also bought mine on sale, so it was an excellent deal compared to a similar Ipod's price.