IOGear GMD2025U 120 GB Video MP3 Player (Black)

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 3.2 x 5.2 inches ; 1.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0016BENFA
• Item model number: GMD2025U120
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #25,551 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 21, 2008

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description IOGEAR's Portable Media Server Player stores all of your favorite standard definition pictures, movies and music for easy playback viewing on a standard definition TV, HDTV or display. IOGEAR's 720p HD upscaling capability allows you to play your standard definition content at up to 720p HD resolution on your HDTV. Compact yet high capacity design allows you to carry a multitude of entertainment wherever you go!

Carry and Play Your Videos, Photos, and Music Everywhere

Plenty of Room
With its 120 GB capacity, there's plenty of room for your media. Store up to 30,000 MP3s (or 3000 uncompressed songs), 50 hours of DVD quality video (9 hours uncompressed DV), or 34,000 digital photos.

Simple Transfers
Transferring your multimedia content from your PC/laptop is easy. Simply connect the Portable Media Server Player to the PC via USB with the provided USB cable. Then, transfer away.

Video Outputs
Connecting your Portable Media Server Player to your TV/display is also simple. Component and composite video outputs are included for a quick video and audio connection.

Features

Enjoy all your digital media. Click to enlarge.

Features composite/component video outs. Click to enlarge.

• Enhances standard definition video playback viewing up to 720p resolution on an HDTV
  
  
• Ultra-slim design allows for maximum portability
  
  
• Easy and convenient command control using the built-in pushbuttons on the media player or with the remote control
  
  
• Built-in controls for your media (Play, Pause, Skip , Stop, Fast Forward, Rewind & Menu)
  
  
• Supports FAT32 & NTFS file systems
  
  
• Supports full DVD Menus
  
  
• Support for subtitles
  
  
• Supported File Types: DAT, MPG, MPE, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VOB, IFO, M2P, AVI, DivX, xVid, JPG, JPEG, MP3, WAV
  
  
• DivX Subtitle: IDX/SUB, SRT, ASS, SSA, SUB (type II), SMI, PSB
  
  
• 120GB 2.5" SATA drive

What's in the Box
IOGear GMD2025U 120 GB Video MP3 Player, Remote Control, Travel Pouch, Universal Power Adapter, USB Cable, Component Cable, Audio Cable, User Manual

Product Description

Carry your multimedia content with you everywhere with IOGear's portable media player. It stores all of your favorite standard definition pictures, movies, and music for easy playback viewing on a standard definition TV or on your HDTV. IOGear's 720p HD upscaling capability allows you to play your standard definition content at up to 720p HD resolution on your HDTV. Its compact yet high capacity design allows you to carry a multitude of entertainment wherever you go.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very well done., July 20, 2008

By	Russ (NJ USA) - See all my reviews

I was looking for a simple, portable way to get a digital media collection on the TV (without dedicating a PC to the TV), and this IOGEAR player does the job very well.

This is something the non-geeks can understand and use right away. The controls are intuitive, and they seem to have got the details right (a DVD ripped to sequentially-numbered video files plays back just the way you would want: each file right after the other in numerical order).

I'm using this for kids, and it's good to be able to move their video collection from house, to car, to friend's house. It would be nice if folders on the drive could be password-protected to block non-kid items. Another nice feature would be a Bluetooth or WiFi interface so that the media could be loaded from afar.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best Little Portable Media Drive, February 11, 2009

By	0515ACC15A "J" (LA) - See all my reviews

UPDATED REVIEW. 5 STAR RATING NOW

The IOGEAR media player does exactly what it claims to do; it allows you to carry movies (in various formats), photos, and MP3s and display it on televisions with composite video inputs. And it does an (almost) excellent job.

PROS:
Size - This is your standard small external HD case size and is fairly light. Much smaller than previous media players which were the size of large external HD cases.

Controls - Has the controls on the actual player so you can use it even if you forget or lose the remote control.

Carry Case - It comes with its own carry case which has slots for the accessories (cables, remotes, AC adapter, USB cable)

CONS:
*** No Longer a problem *** Skips - Because it is a HD, sometimes (infrequently) as you watch a movie, it blacks out and comes back about a second later in the movie. I'm not sure if it is the HD that is used or if it has to do with the onboard processor but I've noticed this on two separate players (I returned the first one because it skipped incessantly). The replacement I got is doing a better (but not perfect) job. (- 1 star because it still skips)

Does not support WMV or iTunes (AAC/M4P) file format - If you have a large library of songs purchased on iTunes, unless you convert them to MP3, this will not play your music.

Besides that this is a great little media player to have if you're going to spend a week on vacation or go to a sleepover and have access to a TV and want to have access to some movies. This is also good to have on Deployment since many locations have TVs but not a great selection of movies (This was my primary use for it).

p.s. You can also password protect a specific folder on the media player.

Here's how (only works on XP and not VISTA):

Go to the Inoi website (See comment below)

Go down to the section for the model MH720 Mobile Video Hard Disk.

Then download the Utility Program (filename is V3).

Once you download and install the software, you can plug in your IOGEAR media player and you can password protect a folder with a 4 digit code. When you want to access the hidden folder while it is plugged into the TV, input the code into the remote and the folder with your files show up as another folder on the main level.

UPDATE:

So now I've had it for a year now and the skipping has disappeared (I'm figuring it wasn't the player but rather the software I was using to convert the vob files to avi). It works GREAT and I'm still able to password protect a folder.

However, the power adapter failed after three months. I had to send it into IOGear after obtaining a RMA (I paid for shipping and insurance) and they sent me a replacement (not the same size since the new one is a bit larger but somthing that still fits into the bag).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy To Use, May 10, 2009

By	Greyghost (Cedar Hill, Texas) - See all my reviews

The IOgear GMD2025u120 is very easy to use. I bought mine for using in place of the DVD collection. The kids were just tearing them up, especialing when taking DVD's on trips. I haven't actually used the player on a trip but I have tried it out in the drive way with an extension cord to power the player. It worked just fine. It connects to a tv just like a DVD player or vcr. I haven't tried connecting it to my home stereo to try it out playing mp3's. You would still need to send the video to a moniter that will accept video through an RCA type jack. The player connects to a computer with a standard USB to MP3 player type cable. You can copy a whole DVD right to the drive and it will function just like a DVD. I rip my movies to DivX or avi's they are smaller electronically and they can used by MP3 player software to be made into movies installable on the kids mp3's. Just open the media player window and drag what you want right in,the same as you would loading pictures on a CF card or thumb drive.
I have found it works best to put individual movies in their own folder. The player will read and play the first thing it sees in a folder. If you have more than one item you have to let it start and hit stop and it will return to the open folder and from there you can select what you wish to play. I wish they sold little moniters so I can get rid of the cd changers and all of the cds and just down load mp3's. I would use it as a component on a home stereo. I still need to actually listen to an mp3 on a stereo rather that on a computer or mp3 player.
It is so easy to use that over the holidays you could show up at mom's house with 60 movies and pictures of the kids all this in something that fits in one pocket.
To run it in the SUV on a long trip I need to get a a dc to ac inverter to plug in the power supply for the media player and you can run out of road before you run out of movies. You can spare a lot of damage to your DVD,s with a device like this. I like having this and I didn't pay much over 100 dollars for it on amazon. Other sites have it listed for nearly 300 dollars.