Insignia 4GB Video MP3 Player Reviewed

Mar 28, 2007 MP3 Players, Others Players

Insignia 4GB Video MP3 Player

I’d got the Insignia MP3 player unpacked and now here are some of my thoughts. The model I received is Insignia 4GB Video MP3 Player NS-DVB4G. Frankly, I didn’t heard about Insignia before. It is BestBuy’s own brand of MP3 player. It works with BestBuy DigitalMusicStore (actually the Rhapsody).

At first look, it doesn’t look sexy; no fancy design, no slim body. But it does playback video, FM radio, recording, and Bluetooth-enabled that an iPod Nano can’t do. What’s more it is $40 cheaper than an iPod Nano 4GB. You can get all these at just $160 at BestBuy.

As a budget MP3 player, I don’t expect Insignia to have top sound quality. But it don’t fail me, at least ;-) I’m impressed by its easy navigation and interface menu. Most of time, I need only press on “Menu”, “Play/Pause” and the control wheel. The only bad thing about the design could be it doesn’t look friendly for left-handed fellows like me. The Insignia features a 2.2″ LCD display. The screen is bright and large enough to watch video when you are mobile. Video is playing smooth on it but picture quality still need to be improved.

If you have little more budget, you may add-on a microSD card to expand the memory or get Bluetooth headphones. I would rather suggest you to get a good headphones like Shure E series. Not just get some improvement on sound quality. You can even share your favourites music or video with your love one. Ya, the Insignia has dual phone jack. Nice huh! It is stated that Insignia has 20 hours of battery life. I have not tested this yet since I’d only done a quick test. But no worries, the battery is replaceable and can be easily found at Partsearch.

I give it overall 7/10. The Insignia 4GB Video MP3 Player is a good choice for those who are looking for feature rich and budget MP3 player. It is suitable for a first-time user.

Insignia interface

Main Menu interface

Insignia interface

Playing music

Insignia interface

Playing video

Insignia interface

Playing radio

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  • Daniel
    It also fits great in that mini pant pocket--Its amazing!
  • D
    How do you get the videos to work. I have dragged videos overs from Win/Media, i got to video section on the mp3 but no videos...what do i do?
  • ron
    g8torchix94 im having the EXACT PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!!
  • jessie
    I dont even know how to put the movies in it and what website to get theme from.
  • jamie
    hey if u want the insignia to be good for left hands go to settings then display and go down to rotation there are 2 choices right handed or left handed.
  • g8torchix94
    The mp3 Player works great, but I have had it since Christmas. Just the other day, when I was going through my songs, I couldn't see the names of them. You could hear them but you couldn't see the names. It says unknown on it. I can't figure out how to fix it. So I don't know what to do. It takes me 10 minutes to find a song.
  • zito33
    F*%k all this, if you really wanna get da most for your money buy an ipod touch, it is off the hook, but most of you lames are broke a$$ hell, so stick with the generic brands like insignia and coby which break down like 65% of their products.Oh Yeah Merry Christmas! 8)
  • Mary
    yea u sed that it is bad for people who are left handed but there is actually a way to flip it all around so it is for a lefty. You have to go to settings, then display, then set it for left hand or right hand then the screen flips according to what you have selected! : )
  • Mike
    sweet
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  • This one makes sence "One's first step in wisdom is to kuesstion everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything."
  • Debby
    The player can also be used with windows media
    player and windows exployer. You do not have to
    install the Best Buy media player to use the
    player with unless you want to take advantage of
    their music deal. It works with other music
    stores also including Itunes. The manual has
    instructions for how to install music using Itunes.
  • Debby
    The player does support left-handed operation which you access under settings. It also plays
    itunes songs which has to be dragged and dropped
    into the player when it is set as msc mode and you drag and drop the itunes music in to the root folder of the player. To do this you need to use
    the hold button on the player, then connect it to
    your computer, then open my computer and go to
    the mass storage device and click open or explore.
    Find the root folder and drag and drop the music
    from the itunes player. This is all explained in
    the manual. People need to read the manual. It
    is on the cd that came with the player or avail-
    able on the insignia website.
    I think this is a great little player for the
    price. The controls are easy to use and I like
    the fact that the wheel can also be used to scroll
    with. Which is handy for adjusting the volume. The user replaceable battery, the QVGA 2.2" screen
    two headphone jacks (one can also be used as a line-in jack for recording from other devices), FM tuner, and the ability to play videos and movies, listen to audio books, display photos,
    make this player a great deal for the price. The
    screen is sharp and clear which makes playing
    videos and movies on it a pleasure. It comes
    with software to convert videos and movies to
    mpg4 which can then be installed on the player.
  • Not bad...its above average...cheaper...reasonably good quality...although I do prefer the ipod nano over this..
  • jah from the bronx, ny
    if you can then I'm ordering it today!
  • jah from the bronx, ny
    Can you use mon-aural bluetooth with it? Like a cellphone bluetooth motorola earpiece?
  • cristina
    I just purchased (well, my dad did anyway) an Insignia and so far I'm fairly satisfied but I've run into a little problem: I can't delete tracks from the player! I tried doing the same thing I did with my other player (a Sansa)--plug in the device, open Rhapsody, select the device's icon, right-click the song I want to delete, select Delete from the drop-down list and voila! I'm done. I tried doing that with the Insignia but I didn't get a drop-down list. I tried using the #Delete button and /that/ didn't work. What am I doing wrong?
  • Thanks guy, will look for left-handed setting :-P
  • PSAztec
    I heard from the sales person at best buy, who is left handed, that there is a setting for left handed people. Give that a try.
  • No, this device doesn't work with iTunes. It works with Windows-DRM music stores and does it nicely. When I sync with a Rhapsody subscription download, it also downloads the album's cover art to the player for display.

    The video quality for this player is actually better than I expected. I replaced a Creative Zen MicroPhoto with it because the Zen's harddrive finally died on me.

    I'm actually very impressed by this budget player and while the sound could have better bass to it, it's still a great purchase overall.
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