COWON A2 Portable Video Player
Some movies or clips are just too good to pass. And sometimes, we just have too much time eating at our hands, especially when we are traveling or getting stranded at nowhere. To reconcile both scenarios, and a lot more, we found out about the Cowon A2 portable video player with its bright and crisp 4-inch wide-screen LCD, perfect for the most perfect movies or any visual treat for that matter.
The Cowon A2 portable video player has a clean and visually appealing form and interface which makes just looking at it a treat in itself. It also performs well with great audio, coming equipped also with an excellent FM radio with great recording quality. Of course, to play all these treats the Cowon A2 portable video player also comes with a long battery life and supports a multitude of audio and video formats. The rated battery life for the Cowon A2 is up to 18 hours. Its other functions include a voice recorder, a photo viewer with zoom and a PVR. Also, it can conveniently serve as an A/V line-in cable, instead of a hub, for doing all the dirty work while recording audio and video tracks. Needless to say, the Cowon A2 portable video player can support an amazing number of formats and resolutions of video files without having to go through the tedious video conversion. Because of these numerous formats, the Cowon A2 portable video player also included a software to convert all the non-compatible files and chances are, this player can play any video files you throw at it. It also comes with the latest firmware update (v 1.61E) which will enable you to multitask so that you can view photos or text while listening to some great music simultaneously.
General Specifications
| Size |
133.4(W) x 78.5(H) x 22(T) mm |
| Weight |
298g (10 oz |
| Video |
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| Display |
4 inch, 480x272 Resolution,
16,000K Color, Digital TFT LCD |
| Video Format |
NTSC / PAL |
| Audio |
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| Channel |
Stereo |
| Frequency Range |
20Hz ~ 20KHz |
| Max Output |
16 Ohm earphones : 32mW + 32mW |
| SNR |
95dB |
| Built-in Speaker |
Stereo |
| Built-in Microphone |
Mono |
| FM Radio |
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| Frequency Range |
87.5~108 MHz (KR,US,EU)
76~108 Mhz (JP) |
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| Power |
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| Built-in Battery |
Built-in Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery 4300mAh |
| Battery Charging |
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| Time |
Takes 5hours to fully charged |
| AC Adapter |
DC 5.0V, 2A |
| Capacity |
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| Hard Disk |
1.8inch 20G / 30G, FAT32 File system |
| USB Interface |
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| USB Device |
USB 2.0 High Speed (Max. 480Mbps) |
| USB Host |
USB 2.0 Full Speed (Max. 12Mbps) |
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| Software Specifications |
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| Movie Player |
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| File Format |
AVI, ASF, WMV |
| Video Codec |
DivX 3.11/4/5, XviD, MPEG4, WMV9(MP@LL), MPEG1 |
| Video Resolution |
Max. 800x576, 30 fps |
| Audio Codec |
MP3, AC3 Downmix, WMA |
| Audio Resolution |
Max. 48KHz, 448 Kbps |
| Subtitle |
SMI Format |
| Max. Continuous |
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| Playback time |
Max. 10 hours |
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| Music Player |
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| File Format |
MP3, WMA (ASF),OGG, FLAC, WAV |
| Audio Codec |
MPEG 1/2/2.5 Layer 3, WMA (ASF), Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Wave |
| Audio Resolution |
8Kbps ~ 1.4Mbps
(Up to OGG Q10 & FLAC Level 0~8)
ID3 Tag ID3 V1, ID3 V2.2/V2.3/V2.4 |
| Lyrics |
LDB |
| EQ |
5Band, 7set |
| (Normal, Rock, Jazz, Classic, Pop, Vocal, User) |
| Sound Effect |
Jet Effect |
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(BBE, Mach3Bass, MP3 Enhance, 3D Surround) |
| Visualization |
Sound Spectrum, Album/ID3 Meta Image |
| Max. Continuous |
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| Playback time |
Max.18 hours |
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| Photo Viewer |
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| File Format |
JPG, BMP, PNG |
| Video Codec |
JPG - Unlimited Pixel (File size up to 6.5M byte) |
| JPG(Progressive type) : |
Max. 1.6M Pixel |
| PNG - Max. 2.1M Pixel, 1.6M Pixel(include Alpha channel) |
BMP - Max. 2.1M(24bit), 1.6M(32bit), |
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| Text Viewer |
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| File Format |
TXT<EUC-KR (Korean), EUC-JP(Japanese), GB2312 (S.Chinese), Big5(T.Chinese), ISO-8859-1(Latin), UTF-8 |
| File Size |
Unlimited |
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| AV Recording |
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| File Format |
ASF |
| Video Codec |
MPEG4 (Max. 640x480, 1Mbps) |
| Audio Codec |
MPEG-1 Layer 3 (Max. 44.1KHz, 192Kbps) |
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| Line-in, Mic. Radio Recoding |
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| File Format |
MP3 |
| Video Codec |
MPEG-1 Layer 3 |
| Audio Resolution |
Max. 44.1kHz, 192Kbps |
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| Playable media files |
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| File+Folder |
15,000 |
Notice of GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
This product has some free software which are copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation
and the library includes the software is subject to the observance of the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
System Requirements
| PC |
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| CPU : |
Pentium II 200Mhz or Higher |
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Windows XP / 2000 / ME / 98SE |
| MAC |
OS 9.x, 10.x (Only data transfer supported) |
| RAM : |
128MB or More |
| CD-ROM Drive |
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DirectX 9 or higher
Windows Media Player 9 or higher
QuickTime 6 or higher |