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Summary: Great buy but lacking in some areas
Review: I just picked this baby up and after about 5-6 hours of playing around with it i found that this is a awesome little machine, Copying audio/video is a breeze and audio/video playback is excellent(Note the 2780 handles dark areas pretty bad) The only gripe i have about the 2780 is the lack of features right now, alot of basic features that should be included IE: Playlists,Password Protection & Name Tags instead you get a "Will be included in a futeure upgrade meesage", Small price to pay for a new product on the market,Dont let these minor problems effect your decision on buying this gem
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Summary: Looking for the best for my Lyra
Review: I want the absolute best in headphones but i dont know where to look. Does anyone have any suggestions? LYRA ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:):):):)
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This is my second mp3 player, and since I work in the portable electronics section at Circuit City I have to know my stuff and I was very careful in choosing this. The player is fantastic- but has a few drawbacks. The player only records in mpeg4 video and mp3 encoded audio, so be prepared to either buy some $30 converting software, download one (legally, of course, ahem), or only use a few video files that happen to be the right format. It does take some time to find the tracks to play audio, in particular, but anyone who doesn't have fifteen seconds to wait while their mp3 player gets the track ready has some serious patience issues. Note: it only takes that lag to find the artist, after that, every track by the same artist loads instantaneously. The battery life is not terrific- a little less than the ipod on audio (about 6 to 7 hours) and only a few hours on video. Not atrocious, though. The good parts are far more numerous. Video and audio quality are outstanding, the recording is easy and terrific (if you get that error message, make sure the plug is ALL the way into your input on the player. It happened to me too), it's incredibly easy to use, very stylish, I can't say enough. And for all those people who cite the lack of immediately available features- you're wrong. The only feature you'd like that isn't available is the playlist-on-the-fly thing, and they'll get that out soon. All the rest of the features that aren't ready are things you wouldn't use anyway. This is definitely the best product on the market, and to prove it, I don't even care if you buy it from my store. That's how good it is.
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Summary: Excelent product
Review: The lyra is amazing. From past reviews on this site i was a bit worried about this product, but once i got it my worries were gone. This thing does every thing it says it can, some features say you cant do it until a later time, but if you hook your lyra up to the computer and go to the hard drive, then you can do pretty much every feature and those features are mostly just editing anyway. the copying dvd trick is great too, let it record for about 6 seconds and then press stop and let it record nothing for like 10 seconds, then press play and then you got it. i have no complaints so far, it transfers files fast, easy to acsess files, great sound, good video, it has lots of memory, and by accessing the lyra through your computer, it has lots of sorting and editing features. only downside is that it has poor directions for use and may take a while to figure out how everything works, other then that this is a great product that i would recommend for purchase. it is also much cheaper then the other models out by at least 150$ from what i havee seen. hope this helps.
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Summary: AWESOME
Review: I bought this thing for my wife and she hasn't been able to get it away from me. Like the rest of you, I was worried by some of the older reviews, but after using it, I've found that the critics are wrong. I spent hours ripping DVDs and converting to DIVX (for personal use of DVDs I own), and just recently discovered the way around the copyright protection for recording directly from DVD player (mentioned in an earlier review). This makes it 100% better. The features available now are more than sufficient and will only get better as they release more. The only downside is that when recording video, you can't specify a later start time, which kind of defeats the purpose. Hopefully this will be an added feature.
I loaded a movie and took it into the car, hooked it up to the car stereo(included attachment) and was blown away!
Also: I made a photo slide show of my honeymoon and set a sappy song to play over it - brought tears to my wifes eyes.
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Summary: The DUST!!
Review: yes i agree with you the dust is evil and its because the geniuses put holes on the top of the lyra above the screen. the same thing happened with my gameboy sp and it pisses me off. anyway im returning my lyra for a new one because the dust and my stand. LYRA ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:):)
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Summary: Wich could be the best product?
Review: I want to buy the best 10-40GB mp3 portable player, and I check this one but in the RCA website says that this device doesn't play WMA and here in Amazon, the specifications of the product says that this RCA device can play this music format as well. Those who has this portable device, could you tell if this little thing can play WMA as well? And coparing to the Rio, IPod and the RCA 40GB, which one is better? Thanks
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Summary: Return your Lyra and say it just the stand just fell off...
Review: I love my lyra also, but I have dust on the lower right corner that is inside the LCD screen. It is VERY annoying! Otherwise, I think it is great for the price and form factor, plus with ALL the include accessories, unlike the Archos.Just remember to upgrade the firmware at RCA.com which is very easy to do. As RCA updates the firmware, this product will only get better. Plus, you can get this at circuit city for 359...the Archos is at least $100-200 more (depending where you shop), plus the screen on the ARchos is a cheap plastic, and you don't get a carrying case to protect it. The Lyra screen seems like glass, but is probably a good quality plasitc. I already dropped my Lyra on my hard wood floor, but becuase I had it in it's included case (which is thickly padded), no harm was done. If this was the ARchos, it's cheap chinese plastic would shatter!
DVD's CAN be copied onto the Lrya!! There are 2 ways: You can always use a store-bought product that converts your DVDs on your computer to MPEG 4 avi files. I personally use Super DVD ripper which I got off the internet. I've seen others at stores like Circuit city or Best buy for around 30 bucks. Second...to record directly to from a DVD player, hook up the Lyra to the DVD player via the inputs on the Lyra. REcord...up to 6 seconds. At 6 seconds, disconnect the INPUT to the Lyra (or stop playback on the DVD player...both ways work the same....The goal is to cut the signal from the DVD player). MAKE SURE THAT THE LYRA IS STILL RECORDING...DONT STOP RECORDING. At 11 seconds, hook back the input to the Lyra or press play on the DVD player (if you chose the "stop playback" method). VIOLA!! you are now recording a copyrighted DVD. Remember, this is only for archiving your PERSONAL collection. Nobody condones piracy, because in the long-run, we all lose!
Also...to the guy whose brother broke his stand on his Lyra..Just exchange it at the store you bought it for a new one! Tell them that the stand just broke with normal use. They cant prove a thing. Just show them your receipt.Happy new year all!
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Summary: Question to all you lyra owners
Review: Wanted to know if there was anyway to add a photo as sort of a wallpaper at the begining screen in the top right corner because I have seen so many different pictures there on the Rca site and other pictures i have seen. If any1 knows just post it on reviews or contact me at Speedy064@optonline.net
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Summary: Worth it!
Review: It is true that many functions need firmware upgrade to be activated, but the unit is very functional out of the box and there was a firmware upgrade posted on 12/30/03. I absolutely love the video functionality. All you have to do is hook it up to a laptop or desktop with TV-out capability and you can go straight from DVD to lyra. I recorded a 2hr movie with 128Kbs Mp3 sound and the file was less than 700MB, wich means I can transfer it back to the PC and store is on a CD-R until it is time to go on a trip. Before my trip, I will load about 10 of these movies back on to my Lyra and add an additonal 10GB of mp3 audio and still have room for more. It will record straight from a cable box or VCR and let you watch last night's football game while you're on the bus/train or in the waiting room of the dentist's office. This thing kicks ass!
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