Conclusions

Let's see...how do I best describe this product?  Well, for those who have had the pleasure of attending CES, there is always this large exhibit you can visit where you'll find a large number of re-branded and "knock-off" products resembling some of the most popular on the market.  This digital media player happens to be one that will fit in here quite well.  There is no doubt that this product is one that did not take much creativity or effort to design.  In fact, the company boldly exceeded these boundaries to mask what is only an average media player with the look and design of what remains the most popular on the market.  While I'm no Apple fan, this alone is something I'm not fond of nor do I find it acceptable.  However, that doesn't mean its not loaded with features.  In fact, it offers just about all, including one typically not found in such a product to date.  For this, you have to give them some credit.

You have an FM radio, recording capabilities, a text file viewer, and expansion capabilities...four simple features that apparently many companies still fail to offer.  However, not all actually work though.  This player claims to support lyrics via a service that does not even exist to begin with.  This is bad and not something many will be happy about.  Also, I'm not even mentioning the games feature because this is completely useless after testing the only game loaded on the player.

As far as navigation and ease of use goes, this player will disappoint.  Not only does it fail to support ID3 tags, but navigating can be frustrating at times.  Also, there was no way to at least set an auto-scroll feature, making it easier to identify files you would like to play.  Finally, its interface can really annoy you at times and is truly poorly- designed.  Buttons for certain functions that should work don't and activating some of them may require more than one tap on the screen to get to them. 

In terms of performance, this player had its share of issues as expected.  It tends to hesitate at times when accessing certain menus and struggles heavily with pictures.  Also, there were some slight issues with FM recordings as well and there was also static when moving around too much.  Despite all these flaws though, there are a couple of things to like.  One of them is the screen.  It shocked me actually and does have vivid colors with no issues related to viewing angles.  Second is its video playback performance.  Despite the fact that it struggles with all other media, it plays videos extremely well and all look great on its somewhat impressive screen.

The Super Talent is obviously no competition to many other respected companies that produce quality products.  However, not all can afford such products and that's where this player has the advantage.  Knock off?  Yes.  But it manages to have many other useful features that the product it tried to imitate still can't seem to offer.  It is basically a full-featured digital media player that is highly affordable and one that will appeal to those looking the best bang for the buck.

More information on the VIDEGO28 can be found on the Super Talent Website.

The Super Talent 4GB VIDEOGO28 is available at Geeks for only 109.99.  Grab one while you can though...they had plenty in stock but are now almost sold out!

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