Open-Content GBA Movie Player Reviewed

wraggster writes "The helpful people over at EAGB have done a great review of a new third-party GBA SP Movie Player Adapter. According to the review: 'This adapter... uses Compact Flash Cards (CF)... [and] comes with its own encoder software which gives the user free reign to encode any movie or music he wants.' They note the 'steep learning curve', and a 'rudimentary' feature set, but conclude: 'nothing beats that wow! factor when you see your first movie playing on the GBA/SP'." This is an interesting alternative to the recently announced U.S. and already-released Japanese GBA movie players, both of which restrict the movie content you can put on your Game Boy in some way.

Comments

10 FPS

[Anonymous Coward]

One thing that wasn't pointed out in that otherwise excellent review is that the player maxes out at 10FPS, even at the higher quality settings.

Or as they put it in Engrish on their site:
"Photo scan rate: 10fps, photo playing quality equals to a digital camera! Our digital photo enhancing technology ensures you fresh display in your GBA (SP) screen!"

Very simple cartoons like South Park looks ok at 10FPS but Simpsons etc start to look a bit wonky. Action scenes are completely unwatchable. You can't descipher what's going on.

Re:Come on apple. We want iVideo!

[JFMulder]

Actually, Robert Cringley, whose predictions end up being right about 70%-80% of the time predicted that Apple would in fact announce such a device next Christmas. So now you just have to hope that he's right again. :)