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Sony Walkman E-340 Series 8 GB Video MP3 Player (Black)

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Sony Walkman E-340 Series 8 GB Video MP3 Player (Black)

(86 customer reviews)

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Features

8 GB capacity for about 2,000 songs
Up to 50 hours of audio or 10 hours of video on a single charge
2-inch, 262,144-color LCD with 240 x 320 QVGA pixel resolution
Supports MP3, WMA (DRM), AAC, and Linear PCM audio formats; AVC, MPEG-4, and WMV (DRM) video formats; JPEG image files
One-year limited warranty

Description

Walkman Video MP3 Player features a long-lasting battery for up to 30 hours of music or up to 4 hours of video playback. Video functions include play, pause, fast forward, rewind, fast rewind, forward slightly and beginning of current video. User-friendly interface on 2 QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) color LCD lets you easily navigate through your music, pictures, and videos. Easily manage your files through drag-n-drop capability on your PC. Use the built-in FM tuner to listen directly to FM radio stations. Supported high-quality video formats include AVC (H.264/AVC), MPEG-4, and WMV as well as a variety of audio codecs (MP3, WMA, AAC-LC (.mp4), and L-PCM (.wav) for more freedom to download. Clear Stereo and Clear Bass Audio Technologies are designed for clearer, deeper sound without distortion. Walkman Video MP3 Player features an 8GB memory, clock with alarm, sleep timer, and auto shutoff, and includes headphones, USB cable and built-in rechargeable Li-ion battery.

Product Details

Product Weight:	0.3 pounds
Package Length:	5.7 inches
Package Width:	2.3 inches
Package Height:	2.3 inches
Package Weight:	0.25 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 86 reviews

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 4.0

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51 of 51 found the following review helpful:

Sweet little media player from Sony Oct 28, 2009 By S. Sarkar "Neil"
The E-series walkman has really good sound quality, long battery life, easy to use UI and classy look all combined. Also, it is a really open system (specially considering it is from Sony): A. simple drag-and-drop is all that is required to transfer music (though you can create a traditional sync partnership with Windows Media Player 11 if you want to) -- not having to deal with a bloatware like iTunes is pure bliss; B. no special port/sync/charging cable -- the player has a mini-USB port, and a (supplied) mini-USB to USB cable does sync and recharging the battery. Only one gripe: there is no way to create on-the-go playlists from the walkman; you must create the playlists beforehand in Windows Media Player and sync. Oh, and the 2" LCD screen is bright and has nice contrast.

55 of 58 found the following review helpful:

excellent sound Nov 20, 2009 By Erik Nelson "Erik"
I have owned many of the high end tape and cd players sony has offered,
including the most recent ultrathin DNE20 cd player, a mini-disk player
and the original silver-blue metal walkman.

The sound quality on the E series player is exceptional, qualitatively
exceeding all previous offerings. Listening to a good recording of,
say, classical piano music, you may get the impression that the piano
is in the room, and even be able to make out some level of structure
( for instance, how far away the piano was during recording ).

The user interface is self explanatory and very adequate for listening
to cd's. If you have a pc with the right windows operating system
and media player, it is easy to transfer disks to the player using the
few printed instructions that come in the box.

The actual execution of transfer still has some problems : If your disk
was sold by a distributor not linked to microsoft's ( proprietary? )
database, you may find that the cover photo and track titles have been
replaced by the closest thing microsoft can find in its online database.
Although I could type in the right titles myself, I couldn't find a
simple way to insert the right cover photo and occasionally ( once or
twice ) cover photos did not get transferred into the player.

On the other hand, windows media player is supposed to 'rip' the whole
content of the cd, which does appear to get transferred into the player.
This, along with the onboard 5-channel equalizer may account for the
difference in sound quality compared with the ipod.

If your main interest is listening to music, and have regular access to
a windows pc, the E-344 is very well worth the ~$75. Sony also offers to
replace the player after 2 or 3 years for an up-front payment of ~$11
( 2 years ).

21 of 21 found the following review helpful:

Excelent Ipod nano Alternative Oct 23, 2009 By Ulises Gamiz "ugamiz"
I wanted a cheaper MP3 that I could use for the Gym and in the plane, still wanted to have a way to scroll to my music library but still have a portable device that played my ACC itunnes files,

Well I find it all, this device is smaller and ligher than a ipod nano, play ACC, sycn easily with the windows media player or a light sinc apllication included, browsing files was easy, and sound is good, I have not test how long battery last so I can not say about that

Cons:
-I have not been able to play my itunes videos, but that was just nice to have, no big deal for me
-headphones included are cheap, I bought a 10 dollar phillip headphones that sound decent but are more confortable.

Bottom line, is an excelent alternative to ipod nano.

31 of 38 found the following review helpful:

Internals could be better designed Oct 29, 2009 By My Pen Name
Got this player about a month ago, and while it seems very solidly put together, it doesn't seem like much thought was put into the "software" that runs on the player. Examples:
- fast forward and fast rewind feature is pathetic; holding down the button for a longer time doesn't increase the speed of the ff/fr search, it just continues to search at the same slow speed. Pathetically slow, for any track longer than a minute or two. <>
- When you're listening to a track, total track length isn't displayed, nor is a countdown to the end of the track. All that is shown is how much time has already passed on the track.
- Can't create playlists on the fly. That is, there's no way to "add to playlist" when you're listening to a different song.

Ridiculous shortcomings, in my opinion. No excuse for any of them.

On the plus side, I have to say that I like the option of searching through music as it's organized in folders on the device, rather than having to use the tag structure. It's nice to have both options available, which, as far as I know, is not an option on ipods.

I'd give this 4 or 5 stars if I had any confidence that Sony would issue a firmware update addressing the shortcomings described above, and others listed in other people's comments. It's well-priced, feels solid, looks flashy. But internal design is poor...

9 of 10 found the following review helpful:

Compared to Ipod Nano Nov 14, 2009 By Zeno
I've owned all the Ipod Nanos, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generations. I returned the 4th generation due to poor battery life and an oversensitive click wheel and opted for the Sony Walkman instead. This review is a comparison between Ipod Nanos and the Sony 8g Walkman.

Pluses compared to Ipod:

1) Sound quality is noticeably superior--crisper, more defined, cleaner sound.
2) The Sony Walkman can be used as a portable device, i.e. it will carry documents and other files it can't play just like a flash drive.
3) The battery life on the Sony Walkman is superior to the 4th (current) generation of Ipod Nanos but not the 3rd generation nano, which in my experience was the best Ipod Nano.
4) The Sony is about $70 cheaper than the Ipod
5) I believe the Sony supports a few more file types than the Ipod

Minueses compared to Ipod:

1) The Ipod's interface Apple Itunes is the most intuitive and easy to use music file management system I've ever used. The interfaces that work with the Sony all pale in comparison. I avoid them and just click and drag files onto the Sony without using a file management software. This has a couple of drawbacks. You can't create playlists, certainly not while you're "on the go." You can't edit file genres so that for example all your hip-hop and R&B are categorized together.
2) The lack of a click wheel makes searching between and within (large) files a hassle. If you're listening to a book you can only skip forward with the Sony in 5 second increments. The Ipod's click wheel allows much faster skipping and/or searching within a large file (such as a 1 hour podcast) and between folders as well.
3) The design of the Ipod is superior to the Sony even if the 4th generation Nano's click wheel was too sensitive for me and the battery life too weak. Again, the 3rd gen. Nano was the best!

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