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Insignia Pilot 4GB Media Player With Bluetooth |
Last weekend Best Buy made a quiet release of their latest line of the budget-minded Insignia media players, one of which being the 4GB Insignia Pilot. The Insignia players have always been somewhat in the background, offering decent “Best-Buy brand” players at affordable prices, but this latest release has some competitive features at a very competitive price which should give a lot of more popular brands a run for their money.
The player supports playback of MP3, WMA, WMA Lossless, WMA DRM, WMA Pro, OGG, WAV and Audible audio files along with MPEG4 (30 fps) and WMV (30 fps) for video. It will also support viewing JPEG still images. Users can watch video and view images on a nice-sized 2.4″ widescreen LCD and it offers up to 25 hours of audio playback on a single charge.
The Pilot also has an FM tuner with 20 presets available, and has built-in RDS letting you view the artist and song information from FM stations that broadcast RDS. When you hear a song you like you can even save this RDS data to reference later.
This PMP also has wireless Bluetooth letting you listen with a wireless Bluetooth headset and lets you expand that 4GB of internal memory with an SD card expansion slot. Its compatible with PC’s and Mac’s, connecting through USB 2.0 and measures only 3.3″ x 1.6″ x 0.4″.
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AAannnnddd the pilot has Tv-out (320*240 as of yet, possible hacks firmwares of course) annnnddd SD expansion support… SDHC that is!
& the already mentioned stereo bluetooth. This is on my Xmas list foooshoo, if it doesn’t make the cut. I guess I’ll have to fit the bill on my own, but this things sounds welllll worth it.
Good job best buy!
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And it has two head-phone jacks, for those occasions when you’ve just gotta show a fellow music-listener a song, or if you’re on a long car-ride you and your friend can sit back and chillax to the music.
Did he mention FM Recording?
so jealous
my gpa got one
how do u do the FM recording??? gt_hotboi AT yahoo.com plz e-mail me if you know
@rico:
You can find the instructions on this PDF, on page 26:
http://www.insignia-products.com/skins/skin_1/Topics/Documents/07-328%20NS-4V24%20&%20NS-8V24_web.pdf
The insignia pilot is NOT MAC COMPATIBLE. STOP saying that it is. The only thing that you can do is load your tunes from itunes. It does NOT allow any playlists. It freezes constantly, and when you approach the capacity of the internal, or loaded sd card, it (surprise!) FREEZES. Mac compatible should be COMPLETELY Mac compatible. Best buy told me that you can do playlists with itunes. Not possible without Rhapsody, a service that NOBODY USES. Customer support also sucks. Some foreigner (nothing against foreigners) who has a hard time understanding you. Hangs up when you try to get some answers. STAY AWAY!!!! False advertising is as false advertising does!!!!!!!!
DEAR GOD I HATE THIS PIECE OF CRAP. Ok, i have had my insignia pilot for around 3 months now. IT just started acting up, and wow is it bad. It refuses to charge, cuts on and off by itself, and the battery drains even when off. it is a piece of crap and i am PRAYING that BB will take it back. i swear, i will pay them to take it back. DO NOT GET THIS. choose something better. check with cnettv.com first. read some reviews. Although….. this one SOMEHOW got really good reviews
Best Buy of Paramus, NJ told me that in June or July of 2008, the entire Insignia MP3 line will be upgraded. Notice how the 8gb version has been pulled from the shelves. I was told that the NEW players will be COMPLETELY Mac compatible, COMPLETELY Itunes compatible right down to playlist compatible.
I hope so. The one I owned and returned sucked so bad that I almost smashed it with my fist!
Ran across this and thought I would update my thoughts after having it.
It’s pretty nice, a tweaked EQ almost makes up for the “lackluster” sound quality (I say lackluster because if you don’t have descent headphones or speakers, it can sound a little tin-canish)
The battery lasts forever, even with bluetooth on and in use a full charge will last a long time. I’ve got like 700 songs, three movies, an hour long discovery program, some p0rn (im that guy!), and still like a little under a gig free.
I don’t recomment using the video convsersion software that came with it if you plan on using the TV out, being 320×240 you really wanna polish the vids you put in it to make them TVworthy.
Sometimes the peice freezes on me. I even went and popped the battery out a few times, turns out, if you hold the power button long enough, with paitence, it will turn off no matter if it has frozen or not. getting the battery out wasn’t a nightmare, but it should be easier.
Over all it, as said, was the only stereo bluetooth 8gb mp3 player out at the time, the tv out, dual stereo ports recording, raido tuner, ect. ect.
Good deal. She’s a good MP3 player indeed, hope this lasts forever!
Don’t listen to Dusin Thayer. When I returned this piece of garbage to Best Buy, they told me that they have gotten hundreds of returns. Nobody wants to use Rhapsody. Nobody USES Rhapsody. EVERYBODY uses Itunes to organize their tunes.
Wait for June or July. They’ve upgraded the entire mp3 line of players. My insider says that they will be the first non-ipod mp3 player that is completely itunes compatible.
If not, stay away from this crap. Don’t bother calling Dudley Doright up in they’re Canadian customer service dept. The lady who answers is a wise ass who will just cop a bad attitude towards you and hang up.
By the way, if McCain gets ellected, we are ALL screwed!!!!
Well Right after a song the thing froze. Just a black screen with the clock which stayed at 10:30pm. I would have to say though this is better than the ipod in so many ways. It is also not as good as the ipod in many ways. For starters the ipod navigation is setup better. I hate having to either add one artist or song to the now playing section one at a time or all at once. There is a library but everything you click there goes into now playing.
I wish it would just play the song in the library and not make me have to go back and forth from now playing to library.As far as the freeze it had a few minutes ago, I read where dustin said if you hold the power button with patience it will turn off. Well, he was right and thanks Dustin for sharing that. So don’t worry people it will turn off and restart back to normal. As for the battery problems and the other random system issues “sad owner” was talking about…sound like a bad apple. mine is fine and I have had it for a month. We will see in the next month or so what happens. Probably nothing will I assume.
Wait - Insignia is coming out with a line of MP3 players that are completely iTunes compatible? Even the songs you download from the iTunes store?
I’ll believe it when I see it. I’m having a tough time seeing Apple agreeing to a deal which would essentially kill off a large number of iPod sales…
I’ve had mine for 2 weeks and its frozen twice ( but thats because of improper bluetooth headset disconnection ) and it a pretty good player and to Rhonda:, I fuc$%N hate Itunes and not EVERYBODY uses iTunes…… i tried to set up playlists and the best way is to use Winamp. and still better than an ipod ( you can transfer the music out from if you hook it up to another computer ) WINAMP and LIMEWIRE is the way to go!!!!!!
Edgar, Edgar, Edgar, the WORLD uses Itunes. And why the fuck would you need to use another computer. If you need another computer, you’re spending thousands of extra bucks to be able to load playlists on a $100 mp3 player?
Sarah, wait until June or July, you’ll see. Don’t listen to EdGirl!!!! and, by the way Eddie, limewire is illegal you idiot!!!!!!!!!
Jomama, I’d love it to be true, that Insignia would come out with a line of MP3 players that are 100% compatible with iTunes. I just don’t see Apple cooperating to make that happen. Why the heck would they? Every kid in the world would ditch the expensive, limited iPod and buy an affordable Insignia wtih tons of features.
Right now the big reason iPods are so popular is that only they can make full use of iTune’s library and playlists. Why would Apple give that exclusiveness away to Best Buy’s house brand? What’s in it for them?
Nah, I still don’t believe it. But I’ll keep an eye on the Best Buy circulars, just in case… (any word on when the thing is coming out? Is it June or July??)
What Apple gives up in Ipod sales, they will make up a million fold in itunes sales. If Apple DOESN’T do this, like they didn’t license their operating system early on, they will go under when the next big thing comes along.
Jorama about the computer thing, i never said to go buy another comp you idiot. My fu**n computer’s hardrive crashed because of a drop accident and lost all my music but i was able to recover them from my insignia and other mp3 player ( lets see ipod do that! without any special software of course ) and if i want to transfer ALL my music to my bros comp i can. and if Limewire was Illegal then why is it still around?????????? i like Apple but i just don’t like itunes. I Like to tell my electronics what to do not the other way around!!!!! NO SIR I’m am not an idiot.
Does it has a built in playlist? ON THE GO. I really don’t like to make it on winamp or windows media player.. It’s complicated.
Yall are some idiot. This is a good mp3 player. Who the f#%k wants to waste 1 dollar on every song you purchase on itune. If you are smart. You download Frostwire and get all your music from there and into your mp3 player. God, people are so lame now days. This is an mp3 player, and it doesn’t have to support itune. You just download your music and drag and drop from this mp3 player (Yes, it’s that easy). And creating orders for your songs and artist is not complicated either. just require a little work, but when it’s done. You’ll be satisfied.
Well, it’s the middle of July and no upgrades from Insignia yet. Any word on a timetable?
Went to Best Buy yesterday and sure enough, same old Insignia on the shelves. Asked a clerk if Insignia was updating and he said, not that he knew of. Asked him about iTunes and he said flat out, “Insignia will never be completely compatible with iTunes.” He stated that Apple will never let go of their proprietary software.
So, I’m going to stop wasting my time waiting for something that’s not going to happen and just buy an iPod. Jomama and Rhonda’s Other One, somebody was yankin’ your chains…
I am a Mac junkie and choosing the Pilot over the Nano was a painful decision, but the Pilot just had so much more going for it!!
The Pilot is certainly Mac compatible.
I’ve had one for two months now and am finding all kinds of neat stuff I can do with it that I can’t do with a Shuffle.
You certainly CAN drag and drop a playlist on your desktop.
Then go to the player settings and browse folders. Open the playlist folder and tell it to play what ever playlist you choose. POW!!
The biggest complaint I have is that it doesn’t play while charging, but does he Nano?
Anonymous, does the Pilot play songs that you’ve downloaded through iTunes?
mine is working with my mac but it hasnt been charging…WHY???
Hey there Anonymous,
Please spell out exactly how to create playlists, using a mac and get it onto the pilot.
Thanks
I would like to thank Dustin on the info on mp3 freeze about holding the power button. thanks.
What do you mean by:
You certainly CAN drag and drop a playlist on your desktop.
Then go to the player settings and browse folders. Open the playlist folder and tell it to play what ever playlist you choose. POW!!
How the hell can you do that with a non-ipod? Dragging the playlist onto the desktop doesn’t work.
Went to Best Buy over the weekend, and it seems that Insignia is coming out with an update very soon - at the end of this month, or the beginning of September.
No word as to whether the updated player will be 100% iTunes compatible…
I vote for hope not fear, wind farms not drilling for oil. I vote for Obama NOT McCain.