Friday, March 17, 2006
Epson Announces the Epson Photo Fine Player P-4500
Posted by Damion Chaplin in "NEWS" @ 09:00 AM
"Epson Japan has today announced the third iteration of its Photo Fine Player 'Multimedia Storage Viewer'. This new version sports an 80 GB hard disk (the same as the P-4000), the same beautiful 3.8" VGA LCD screen, SD/CF slot and USB 2.0 interface. Improvements include a new image processing system with support for images of up to 30 megapixels, wider RAW format support, wider video format support (including MPEG-1/2/4 and DivX) and new display modes (including grouping by EXIF tag). The P-4500 will cost 75,000 YEN (approx. $640) when it goes on sale in Japan."
While this does indeed look like a nice player, $640 is just slightly less than my camera cost in the first place! Personally, I think Epson should just give up and call this thing a media player. Give it full media player interface, and center the unit around the media - not the photos - and I think they would have a better chance at convincing people to throw down that much cash. It certainly would have a better chance with me. How about you?
While this does indeed look like a nice player, $640 is just slightly less than my camera cost in the first place! Personally, I think Epson should just give up and call this thing a media player. Give it full media player interface, and center the unit around the media - not the photos - and I think they would have a better chance at convincing people to throw down that much cash. It certainly would have a better chance with me. How about you?
