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Sony NWZ-E436FB 4GB Drag & Drop MP4 Video Player with FM tuner in Black | 
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| Brand: Sony
Category: CE
List Price: £69.99
Buy New: £44.21
You Save: £25.78 (37%)
New (8) Used (2) from £42.95
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 53
Colour: BLACK
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Native Resolution: 2 QVGA LCD
Connectivity: USB 2.0
Display Size: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3
Dimensions (in): 1.7 x 3.3 x 0.3
nv: AC Power Adapter Supplied: No
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Audible Support: No
Audio Output Connections: 3.5 mm headphone socket
Battery Life: 45 Hours Audio 8 Hours Video
Bluetooth: No
Built in Speakers: No
Charging Time (approx): full charge 3 hours fast charge 1.5 hours
Codec Support: MP3 WMA (DRM) AAC
Colour LCD Screen: Yes
Copyright Protection System: Yes
Depth: 0.8cm
Designed for Sports Usage: Yes
Direct encoding: No
External Battery Pack: No
External Microphone Option: No
MPN: NWZ-E436FB
Model: NWZ-E436FB
EAN: 4905524526530
ASIN: B001F0QBYI
Release Date: August 28, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Good basic product let down by periferals January 6, 2009
Like others who have reviewed Sony NWZ range of products I've found the sound and visuals to be excellent for such a compact product. (But then I was brought up on B&W TV and vinyl records!)
Radio-I wanted a small radio to carry around the garden to use whilst digging and weeding. FM and digital radio reception where we are located in North Bucks is not good, and hence any product would be a gamble. However the device autotuned picking up many stations with good clarity. It is a bit crackly out doors, but not so bad that written speech can't be followed easily.
Video- The video downloads from BBC iplayer are excellent, and take surprisingly little space. 4gb is fine for my needs, but if you were away from a pc for months travelling you might well invest in a device with a larger memory.
MP3-This worked fine.
The not so good bits.
My main grumble with electronic devices is that say they play video and list some formats that they claim to play. Then mostly they don't play them. Sony product info and website give a little more info on details of video formats, but not enough to easily output home movies from Adobe premiere 4, which would play on the device. I must have exported 20 files types before finding some that were playable and acceptable quality.
Files can simply be download to the device using file manager in windows XP. However some movies then don't play even though in a supported format. The product comes with a software disk containing, windows media player 11, which will convert WMA files to the right format, but would not detect any of my .mp4 files. There is also content transfer software, which give a pretty colour coded summary of the type of files on the device, but did not upload all files, even though it indicated they had been transfered. There is Sony media manager which added little to windows media player, except it would not transfer in compatible movies files so saved some time working out incompatible formats. The solution upgrade to media manager pro (8 to download) then all my file formats seem to be convertible....... (Have yet to test throughly.)
In the box are basic instructions- good enough to get going. On the disk a .pdf instruction manual with more detail, not that that this answered my questions about video formats, and was for the S series which contains some features not on the E series. Other niggles- there is no case, and the charger is though usb socket on pc. You can't use the device whilst it is conected to the pc. Initially I plugged the device in via a usb hub- the product said it was charged but when disconected gave a low battery warning. This was solved by plugging directly into a usb port. A mains charger is available, but finding the right extras for this device on line is not easy (Amazon please note!) There are so many models it would be easy to choose the wrong one, and our local high street stores seem to stock mostly ipod extras not walkman. To have a clear explanation of the product and be able to bundle the bits you need would make this 5 star product.
Great buy January 5, 2009
I bought this product to replace my Creative Zen Neeon that I lost. Its an excellent all round mp3 player - looks nice, sounds good even with bundled headphones and easy to use. Very simple to load music onto and has really good battery life. Has the function to store photos and video too, but dont really need this feature. Would definitely recommend it.
Fantastic value for money! January 3, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sony NWZ-E436FB 4GB Drag & Drop MP4 Video Player with FM tuner in Black
This really is a fantastic piece of kit. Amazing value for money, and beautifully built as well. Unlike some rather cheap plastic MP3 players I have looked at, this is solid and appears to be made of metal. The buttons and switches are all smooth and positive, and everything works well. Firstly sound quality. Excellent with the supplied headphones, plenty of rich bass and a graphic equalizer with either preset sound options or a couple of custom options to choose your own settings. The FM radio is also superb, crystal clear and doesn't break up when moving around which some players seem to do. It will search for stations, and you can preset them. The video playback on the small screen is also great. It is one of the few players on the market that can handle programmes from the BBC iplayer, so I put it to the test and tranferred several programmes to watch. It was a simple process, and was faultless to do. Playback was superb, crystal clear once you get used to looking at the small screen. My Grandson watched Wallace and Gromit under the bedclothes, and his laughter was heard well after bedtime!! It can also be used as a photo album and will store lots of jpeg photos as well. Several options to tranfer stuff to it, the supplied software worked well, but I used Real Player which was already on my PC, and that was the simplest option for me. I am really impressed with this, so much so I may even buy another one (a his and hers) Battery life is amongst the best on the market, and is easily recharged from the PC USB socket with the supplied lead. Highly recommended, and an astonishing price from Amazon for such a versatile and compact player.
Well impressed! December 31, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Stone me, this is neat! Downloaded Wallace and Gromit from iplayer. Just like watching telly only smaller. Thats my only problem. I dont need glasses to watch telly but I do for this. (Not unexpected!) Quality of video and audio is perfect - even an old git can work it out without instruction manual (I'll read it later in case I've missed things it can do). Best to use Windows explorer to copy stuff to it as the 'Media Mangler' supplied is slower and can't see my iplayer downloads, even though I've told it the directory to look at.
Anyway, off to work out what a playlist is - and probably read the manual! haha 9.9 out of 10
A good Buy! December 21, 2008
39 out of 39 found this review helpful
After using my Samsung 1GB MP3 player (very basic pen drive style) for a couple of years, I decided that I was going to give myself a Christmas treat and get myself a new MP3 player with a bit more memory. I'm not a technophobe but I have never been interested in all the "hi tech" features that newer players have. I looked around and found the Sony NWZ-E436FB 4GB Drag & Drop MP4 Video Player with FM tuner in Black. It was a reasonable price as my Husband had bought a 2GB MP3 player for the same price 3 months back. After receiving it in the post at 9am, by 10am I had put all my songs on there. I didn't even have to look at the manual as it is so straight forward and easy to use. The display and menu system is very much like a mobile phone and very well set out. I had never used BBC iPlayer before, and after discovering that I could download and add them to the player I did so and it was very simple and ended up watching BBC's Hole in the wall in bed that evening! The one con I found with the MP3 Player is that it uses half a GB for the operating system it has which does limit the amount of music, videos and pictures that you can place on there. Apart from that issue, the MP3 player is a winner and I would highly recommend it to all that enquire!
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