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This was a nice media player I bought for my daughter for Christmas. It is a little tricky getting movies to play and sync. Must find the right combo. Has a good amount of features. How ever my daughter droped it and crack the LCD screen. To bad because I really like this media player.

This are the issues with the coby 4330

- The player is easily broken seeing as there is no durability(my headphone insert broke and went in the player)
- The player does play Xvid Mp4 Wmv however that is not guaranteed(I tried to play a whole bunch of movies die hard and casino royale to name a few they didnt work they were MPEG4 and Xvid formatted)
- The battery isnt external so that not so bad but it get overcharged EASILY.It shuts itself off in 2-2.5 minutes after you turn it on.
- And oh yea the cool feature of recording off external devices hah this thing has such unclear and hard to understand instructions that make no sense.
- This thing desperately needs a firmware upgrade which coby seems like it will never provide

Now I had all these problems so I did what anyone would do call customer support 7DAYS!!! thats how long it took me to get a hold of them on the phone after about like 50 tries or more. Currently i sent it in for repair which by the way cost me about 24$ more on this piece of junk.
Maybe i just have had bad luck or this particular unit was defective but coby has certainly lost my business. I would not recommend this to anyone this is a waste of money completely.

This PMP I bought it from J&R and around 5 weeks later unit display is showing white color as yellow. Save your money and buy omething else.
Display is yellow-ish.

I received a unit from J&R....all was intact but the unit was DOA.
Needs to be charged at least 4hrs before using. There is a red light at the top rt of the unit that should change from red to green. The unit remained red after 12 hrs and it never got warm ( common with a good charge)
J&R quickly issued an AR but I believe the ship back/insurance is at my expense...according to the docu's. I don't care for that.

Another unit will be shipped and I will test/review the unit. What I received looked good.

UPDATE....received another unit. All is well.
I am pleased with video....good colour...audio. Just watched a Survivor episode.
Watched a slide show...no problem.
I have not tried d/l music or FM yet.

Re SD...I don't think it supports SDHC.

I will try and find s/w upgrades.

I have not seen any other similiar types of units so I have nothing to really compare to.

POSITIVES:
+ The quality of the screen is pretty amazing.
+ The size of the storage is just enough for me, and the transfer rate is satisfactory.
+ The design of the PMP is fabolous. ;)
+ Video recording feature is pretty amazing.
+ It is so convenient to connect it to your TV, Camcorder or any AV terminal.
+ The price is very affordable esp. for a quality product like this.

NEGATIVES:
- Not all the codecs are supported and yet there is no firmware upgrade that COBY has published for this product.
- For some movies the video codec works but the audio codec is not supported and it takes years to convert.

RESULT:
definitely a "BUY" !! ;)