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Best for Tape decks in Cars/Vans
Posted by Desmound on 6/12/2008
Involvement: General (knows how to use it) - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

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Pros: Very useful, if like me your boss buys you a new van with a casette player rather than a cd player. he's a skinflint!!! but thats another storey. Used my 1gb scan disk memory card and filled it with tunes. The sound quality is far superior than the old version i had that had a wire going to my mp3 player. really easy to use. just turn it on put it in your casette player and away you go. to forward track just press the forward tape button on your player and it goes to the next track.same for other way too. comes with mains charger, fag lighter adaptor and also charges from your usb port on computer aswel. there no excuse not to have it fully charged all the time. also comes with a very handy usb lead which works with other stuff i have.


Cons: no display on it, but hey you wouldn't be able to see it in the cassette player anyway. works as a standalone player but needs better headphones!


Other Thoughts: the fact is has a built in battery which you can charge up: with mains: in car : or on pc is great and it saves searching for batteries if you have any left that is.


Bottomline: this is a great product and everyone how has a cassette player in their care or van should have one, very fast delivery too. thanks deal extreme for another great product at a great price.


Great gadget I was searching for a long time
Posted by PM_CZ on 5/29/2008
Involvement: Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

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Pros: Exactly what I needed for my car, better than FM-based transmitters, since I don't loose the traffic announcement capability of RDS radio.
Plays quite good in the tape player, supports FF and REW via cassette player controls (but you must keep them on for several seconds).


Cons: European buyers, please note that this gadget comes with US AC adapter (also it is rated 110/240V, you would need an adapter to be able to plug it to your socket). Since the car adapter is included and you can charge the player through USB, it is not such a big problem.
Also the USB A to USB mini adapter is so small I was not able to use for in-car charging since the player weight was prying the charger apart.


Other Thoughts: I was hard pressed to replace the car radio with a CD model, but reluctantly bought a 3.5 jack cassete adapter, which I never used.
This product is almost all I wanted for my car, the possible improvements I can think of would be random play, directory skipping for a longer run of fast forward/rewind, charging from movement of cassette deck parts (if possible at all) and WAV recording via the audio head to record your old tapes to MP3s in your double cassette decks. I think that a display is not necessary due to the primary use of this player.


Bottomline: Great idea for a player, quite cheap, the product which brought me to Deal Extreme web site.


Much better than a cord hanging out of your stereo
Posted by Twistynix on 5/4/2008
Involvement: General (knows how to use it) - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

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Pros: Wonderful now you can have mp3 useability in a tape deck.
Well made and is quieter than a conventional 3.5mm to tape adapter.
Standalone function.
Skip pause and play using your tapedeck controls.


Cons: Could do with a usb to charge with rather than the usb dongle provided.


Other Thoughts: Nice and easy to use even for my 60 year old dad, Use it as a card reader to add music to a memory card or insert a memory card with music on already into it. Turn on and press play.


Bottomline: Good product, thanks DX.


Value for money
Posted by krish1 on 4/30/2008
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Pros: Compact, good sound quality with equaliser. Easy to use and useful especially if your car is only equipped with a cassete player. Enclosed AC and car chargers are useful and handy also for other USB powered devices. On the first charge the battery lasted about 6 hours. I had no problem connecting to my desktop with Vista operating system altough the package states it's only for XP/2000.

Cons: Packaged headphones are of low quality. Get a good pair. No possibility to fast forward or reverse a song when used in the casste player.Machanical rotating noise emmitted when used in the cassette player. No USB cable enclosed.

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Bottomline: No regrets.