Best MP3 Players - Elapsed Time On Screen Display, ATRAC3 Audio Format

'The joypad was a bit too small for our liking'

'In a cutthroat marketplace that is not unlike the mobile phones', pulling up your design socks is tantamount to preventing your toes from getting flattened by the competition.'

'No FM tuner or recording features.'

'It's neither the player's design nor its stiff $400 price tag that is generating the negativity, though--it's the fact that the HD1 does not natively play MP3 files.'

'There are other sound settings such as the “VPT acoustic engine” which I think is basically worthless.'