RCA Opal (2GB, blue)

Pros: great GUI, plug & play, allows videos and photos, good sound, excellent preloaded content

Cons: line-in and usb are through headphone jack, battery could last longer, video is choppy, long album and song titles tend to get cut off

Summary: This is a great little budget player. It does have video and photo, but the video is ridiculously choppy and it needs to be converted via a program (which takes a while), the sound out of it is nice and the headphones fit snuggly in your ear. The buttons take a little to get used to and line-in goes through the headphone jack (and so does the USB, so if you lose the USB, you're screwed)...There's no radio on this, and you can't go "back" (what do i mean? well, if you just got done listening to "Don't Let's Start" by They Might Be Giants and wanted to listen to "Bouncing Around the Room" by Phish, you'll have to go through ALL the menus to get it), which is my biggest problem. My Opal had some great preloaded content by bands I actually have heard of (Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Thunderbird are Now!, Of Montreal). In closing, if you're buying this as a budget mp3 player, you will be satisfied with it, but it's real draw - the video playing - was a huge let down.