I am a very big fan of Androids. I have used at least 6 different android phones within the last 2 years.
Currently using the EVO 4G and the Google nexus one classic. Androids are great on phones and not so great on tablets that's why I choose to go with Apple's iPad when I was shopping for a tablet to fill that void that didn't really exist in the first place.

Apple's tablet is a great piece of hardware and I have to admit I love it, but just like every Apple device I know of, you tend to be fully boxed into the platform.

• need itunes to copy files
• no usb port
• no memory card reader
• no 1080p video
• no camera
• the list goes on and on.

Being a Google fan, the options were very limited with the Samsung galaxy tab not really offering me the experience I craved on a tablet medium.
Enter Google's Honeycomb and the new Motorola Xoom and I think the tides may have changed.
While I don't own one just yet, the reviews I have seen online say this is a pretty amazing alternative to the iPad and because I love the whole "free" concept of android this will probably be the gadget for me.

Below are a few videos I found via Youtube showing the Motorola Xoom

BEST VIDEO PLAYER FOR APPLE IPAD - VLC  vs BUZZ Player

One of the reasons, i didn't want to get an iPad was because of the limitation to be expected when playing videos. I wouldn't be able to play mkv, mov and divx format videos plus a lot of other video formats. Because of this i kept off the iPad.


So it was great news to me when VLC for iPad was announced, finally an app that would allow me play other video formats and if this iPad version was anything like its PC or Mac brother then it was sure to be an awesome app.
This single application influenced my decision to buy an iPad.

VLC is a free and open source multimedia player. It reads almost every video file, yet it's very powerful and simple to use.

VLC for ipad plays so many video formats that i was simply blown away but i was shocked when VLC for iPad choked on my mkv files. When ever i tried to play a mkv file i get an error telling me my iPad is probably to slow o play the file, when i tell it to play the file anyway, the audio plays flawlessly but you get no video.

This wasn't acceptable to me as i had grown the habit of converting most of my video files to mkv format to save space and retain quality so off i went in search of a better Video Player for my iPad and i boy did i find one.

At just $2, Buzz Player is in my opinion the best Video player available for the iPad. So far i am yet to come across a video file that it doesn't play.


BUZZ Player HD is a multimedia player supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats, and various streaming protocols.

☆ BUZZ Player can play almost anything, including:
+) Container formats: 3GP, AVI, ASF, FLV, MKV (Matroska), MOV (QuickTime), MP4, NUT, Ogg, OGM, RealMedia, Bink, WMV, XVID, DIVX.
+) Video formats: Cinepak, DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, RealVideo, Sorenson, Theora, WMV, Bink
+) Audio formats: AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR, DTS, FLAC, Intel Music Coder, Monkey's Audio, MP3, Musepack, RealAudio, Shorten, Speex, Vorbis, WMA, Bink.

Supported video quality:
Up to full HD quality (1920 x 1080 pixels) for Quick Time media files (mp4, mov, m4v, mpv)
Up to DV quality (720 x 576 pixels) for other media files (flv, mkv, wmv, avi, asf, divx, xvid, dat, vob, mpg…)

☆ BUZZ Player support almost subtitle types including srt, a*s, ssa, msi, sub and embedded subtitle, it also can display almost languages such as Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, English, French, Italian, German, Thai, Vietnamese… BUZZ Player also allow user to change various settings of subtitle such as font color, font size, font type, position, timing offset.

☆ BUZZ Player supports various protocols: RTP, RTSP, HTTP, FTP, MMS, Netstream (mpst://), SMB, ffmpeg://, that allows user not only play media files from local but also play media files from remote servers and devices. User can use BUZZ Player to connect to their IP cameras and servers to play media from them.

☆ BUZZ Player also Built-in Network Browser allows user to play and copy files from Widows/Mac/Linux PC, remote FTP servers and Media Server (uPnP). (SMB & FTP & uPnP Support).

My ipad wouldn't be complete without BUZZ Player.

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