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RE: Juice Box - anyone heard of these

Additional Information on Juice Box

SD Cards - Must be "tagged" before use by putting them in the adapter and turning on the player. Otherwise it will not work. Also files must be downloaded to it, not just copied, it will not work (unless I did something wrong) . Max size of SD card you can use is 512meg. The "tag" seems to be information added to the begining of the SD card so it can be read by both.

Pictures - Pictures are shrunk to 240x160 and converted to bmp format. Appears to be a standard bmp format since they open in paint and other older editors. Resolution is good considering the size. Average bmp size is 113k after conversion. It will convert jpg and gif formats. I have not tested all picture formats, just some basic testing and so far it seems to work good. Pictures that do not shrink evenly to 240x160 will get black lines on either the left and right or top and bottom so the image is centered. Similar to wide screen images found on dvds. If a picture is in portrait mode juice box will rotate it 90 degrees when it shrinks it. This way it does not add as much black space to the sides.

MP3s are a bit tempermental - must be stereo. if it is not stereo they will not work. Maximum of 128kbps or they will not work. Music files play as well on it as the do on the computer. Your current mp3s should remain the same size from what I have seen.

You can mix images and mp3s on the same SD card. A menu screen asks if you want the photo viewer or mp3s. It will cycle through all of the songs or pictures without requiring any buttons to be pressed. You can press the buttons as it plays to skip forward or back.

One drawback - pictures and mp3 files are played and listed in the order they were placed on the SD chip. You will need to remove them and replace them if you want a diffrent order.


So far I would say it is worth the money (i got it on clearance). Good picture and mp3 playback. Video playback is is also good, but you are limited to what they have. I would like to be able to play back my own videos on it. If anyone learns how, please post.

sample images from juice box
www.homeworld-defense.com/BstarA.bmp
www.homeworld-defense.com/avp02a.bmp

the original pictures that i used
www.homeworld-defense.com/BstarA.jpg
www.homeworld-defense.com/avp02a.jpg
i found these images somewhere on the internet. They are not linked anywhere on my site and i am only using them to show how juice box shrinks pictures.

This item was edited on Saturday, 29th January 2005, 14:13

RE: Juice Box - anyone heard of these

From what I have learned the video format is supposed to be proprietary. I know the video format is 240 x 160-pixel at 10fps but have not been able to find out what format. So far nobody has listed how to play your own videos on it.

Anybody looking for these check you local Wal-Mart. They have begun marking them down. It is marked down to about $30 and mp3 kit was $19 at my local Wal-Mart.

If anyone can find out about the video format and how to create it please post.