February 27th, 2008

Epson’s P5000 viewer provides a compact high-capacity storage and multimedia-viewing system, which, like its forbear the P4000, combines excellent screen quality, plenty of storage space, ease of use and tough build quality.
And what you get is a tough little device that provides card format compatibility aplenty including SD/SDHC and Multimedia cards (up to 1Gb restriction for the latter), CF Type I/II that, of course, includes Micro Drives. Use of an appropriate adapter means other card formats can be used as well, but these are optional extras of course.
You get some excellent video and audio capabilities (see below) and an excellent LCD screen, a speedy 80-gigabytes of hard drive storage and a rechargeable Li-On battery pack for excellent long life reviewing while on the move.

Connectivity is dealt with by a high-speed USB 2.0 connection, enabling storage and image/video organisation capabilities for both Macs and PC computer platforms. Actually, using the P5000 is intuitive and you can very quickly get to grips with the system.

More info at pocket-lint.co.uk