Product Reviews

Reviewer:
TheSooty
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  1.  a bit of fun

    Posted: 

    I have to admit, I got this as a bit of a joke... I don't have a 3d tv, but am mulling it over. I thought the addition of an anaglyph 3d version to be a nice extra, which tempted me to buy it while i wait. It's something i'd like to see on more 3d blu-rays.during the transition period.

    It uses the Red/cyan glasses which, personally, i find harder to see than green/magenta (my bloody valentine). The 3d effects are fairly contrived, but effective. The only problems i had was with the underwater scenes, they were much too dark to work well with the coloured filters.

    Overall, this is an all around fun 'teen horror' film, get yourself some friends around, some drinks, some popcorn and enjoy! The 3d effects are done with a tongue firmly in cheek, it's enjoyable in 2d, but i look forward to when (if) i do get a 3d tv and can enjoy it properly.

  2.  good 3d system

    Posted: 

    I got this at the same time as final destination, and for me at least, the red/green system used in this is much better. with the cyan magenta, i kept losing it, had to strain to keep seeing it sometimes and ended up going cross eyed more than once, but for this, i just comfortably fell into the 3d, and stayed there throughout.

  3.  Excellent service and quick delivery

    Posted: 

    The pointer is nice, both laser and page up/down.

    The only thing is that wasn't clear from the listing, was what sort of "wireless" this uses to control the pc. It actually uses infra red, rather than radio, which means you need to be able to point it at the computer when using it.

  4.  Nice, but difficult to get used to

    Posted: 

    I have just recieved mine, and the screen, and ebook support is excellent. However, the user interface is unintuitve and a little awkward. The menu's would have been made much more user friendly, if the numbered buttons were down the left hand side, matching the selections, instead of just clustered at the bottom. This has made me understand why sony made a touch screen reader, as the most natural thing is to try and select options by touching them, it's hard to stop yourself!

    For my purposes, it's ideal as a reader, it supports and views a wide range of documents, and the screen is excellent. However, I wouldn't really recommend this to someone who want's to buy ebooks unless you know what you are doing, as there is very little help and guidance, you are pretty much left to your own devices to go off and get adobe digital editions and find sites that sell supported ebooks yourself.

    On to the rest, as you'd expect from eink, the screen is excellent, comfortable to read and sharp. whenever a page turns, the whole screen inverts first, and when small sections are updated they do the same, presumably this is to even it out and prevent burn in, but it is a little odd at first.

    Because of the screen, like all eink, takes a second to update, it feels a little sluggish, but that will be the same on all readers using this technology. The reader is recognised as a removable drive, and the sd card as a seperate drive, so adding books, and organising them into folders is reasonably straightforward, although i'd recommend something like caliber to manage your book collection and handle the transfers/format conversions if you have a few, especially in a few different formats. You have to swap between the sd card and main memory, the library won't mix the content of teh two, so you will probably find youself putting a large memory card in it and sticking with that.

    It's faily solidly built, and rather nicely, comes with a book like leather case, unfortunately though, it doesn't support sdhc cards, so 4GB extra is currently yoru limit. The buttons are functional, but not great, and it might just be me, but i'd have liked the page turning buttons on both sides, the 9 & 0 buttons do the same job from the right hand side, but are not as comfortably placed.

    So in summary, a very nice, very functional, ebook reader, which supports a wide variety of formats. That is just let down a little by it's clunky user interface, and lack of real user support for getting content.