A-MAX Technology CD / MP3 / VCD player

Two years ago, the Napa DAV310 was one of the first MP3/CD players on the market. Its RRP was about £120, and I bought mine for £85 - which is not too bad, even by today's standards. The DAV310 is a combined CD-audio, MP3 and Video CD player, runs off an internal rechargeable Li-Ion battery, and comes with an infrared remote control - unusual for a portable player. Its white and orange casing is garish to say the least - an optimist would call it an anti-theft feature. Its buttons are well laid out and adequately sized. Build quality is reasonable - the lid is a bit flimsy, but when shut, the ... more

I bought this product for £100 a couple of months ago but ended up selling it as it is flawed. The premise is excellent, a portable remote control CD player that also plays vcd's and mp3 discs, which means in the compressed mp3 format you can get 13 hours of music on 1 CD. As soon as it was delivered I set it all up and connected it to my TV which wasn't too tricky as the manual was fairly good, and all the leads a mains adapter and headphones were included. I tried a normal audio CD for a start and so far so good the sound quality was not going to set the world on fire but it was okay. I then ... more

I bought this at a computer fair because of its wide range of features. I took it home and was really escited about watching a Video CD on, but when i plugged it in and played the VCD the quality was the worst i had ever seen. I put a CD full of MP3 in it, the CD had about 200 tracks on but the device only found 52, 30 it jumped. It was hard to select the track i wanted. I put a normal Music CD in and was pleased to see that every track came up, but when i was listening to the music it would freeze, the product has very very poor anti shock. The sound quality is absolute rubbish when playing ... more