Viking PC Card CompactFlash Adapter (CF-ADAPT)

Average customer rating:

flash reader made easy

Cheap & functional

Works well and can't beat the price

Good device

Decent product at a great price

Viking PC Card CompactFlash Adapter (CF-ADAPT)

Manufacturer: Viking Components
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

Inexpensive CompactFlash card reader solution for your laptop

Transforms the PC Card (or PCMCIA) slot of your laptop to a CompactFlash card reader

Enables you to drag and drop files to and from your CompactFlash card from any software program

Very rugged design with no moving parts to ensure a long life cycle

Five year replacement warranty and 30-day money-back guarantee

ASIN: B00000J3SA

Product Description

Viking's extensive experience in modular subsystem design and manufacturing provides innovative, state-of-the-art and industry standard memory and communications technologies. The company's advanced design and manufacturing capabilities offer superior assembly, test, programming, and deployment solutions for all modular subsystem product needs.

Amazon.com Product Description

Click here to see a listing of PCs, notebooks, PDAs, digital cameras, or other products that are compatible with this Viking memory module.

Customer Reviews:

flash reader made easy.......2007-01-04

Good price good product just what I needed Nothing more.

Sometimes that is just the way to go. The more bells that you don't need the more that can go wrong.

Cheap & functional.......2006-11-11

Well, it does exacatly what it advertises. It sits flush with the side of my laptop when in the PCMCIA slot, so I just leave the reader in there all the time. Readspeeds are fine, although I haven't benchmarked it. It seems to be a fair bit faster than reading straight from my D70 (which only supports USB 1 speeds).

I've only used it under linux, so I can't comment about problems with Windows locking up during read/writes -- if it does, then it's a problem with Windows or Windows drivers, as this is not an issue at all for me. It truly worked in a plug & play manner, running on an IBM T42p with Ubuntu Dapper for the OS.

The only "complaint" of any sort, is that the CF card is also flush with the side of the laptop, so you must remove the pcmcia card to get the CF card out. This could also be a benefit, since you *can* leave the card in there if you want to (and not worry about snapping anything off).

Works well and can't beat the price.......2006-03-05

I got this to transfer files from my Nikon 5400. It works well and the fit and finish is very good. I am using a Dell latitude D610 laptop with XP on it. No complaints with this especially for the price.

Pros:
-If you just put the adapter in the PC slot the computer does not recognize it. I like this b/c if I want to take it out then I don't have to deal with disconnecting it in XP. (Once you add the CF card XP recognizes it.)
-The CF card together with the adapter, while inserted in the computer are flush with the side computer. This prevents me from being a klutz when I leave it in the computer and breaking it off.

Cons:
- The CF when inserted is flush with the side of the computer. I like this (see above), but it means that you have to eject the whole adapter to get the CF card out.

Good device.......2006-01-10

It does what is says it does, the only downside I can think of is, that it does not have an eject button for the CF Card, so when the card fits tight, you have to remove the PCMCIA Card to actually get the CF card out.

Decent product at a great price.......2004-12-28

Many people have said that they had trouble with the drivers on this device and my experience was a little more troubled than I had hoped, but since I haven't seen anyone tell people actually how to do the install, I thought I would. This is my experience with what works in Windows XP SP2

1. Install the device and insert a CF card.
2. Windows will say that the drivers aren't compatible with this operating system.
3. Go to the device manager and find the device, it should have an exclamation point over its icon.
4. Double click on the device and click reinstall driver.
5. I clicked 'Yes, this time only' for connecting to Windows Update, although I don't think this step matters.
6. Click 'Install the software automatically' and click Next.
7. Windows will look and eventually find the correct drivers.

This method worked for me, but I'm not sure how it will work for anyone else. I don't know why Windows didn't find the drivers when you attach the device, but it didn't for me.

The only other problem with this device is that when you insert a CF card the card is flush with the device and with your laptop and this makes it difficult to remove the CF card without ejecting the entire device. However, the up side of this is that there is nothing to stick out and get caught when traveling with your laptop.

Viking - Card adapter ( CF ) - flash: CompactFlash - 80 MB - PC Card

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Viking - Card adapter ( CF ) - flash: CompactFlash - 80 MB - PC Card

Manufacturer: Viking Components
ProductGroup: CE

Product Description

This Compact Flash card with adapter is used in conjunction with either a notebook computer, personal digital assistant, or a digital camera so that pictures saved to the compact flash memory, when used in a digital camera, may be viewed on a notebook computer.

Amazon.com Product Description

Total capacity: 80 MB; Type: CompactFlash with adapter; Contents: 1 piece totaling a 80 MB upgrade; Technical support: (800) 845-8777, toll free, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Viking - Card adapter ( CF ) - flash: CompactFlash - 8 MB - PC Card

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Viking - Card adapter ( CF ) - flash: CompactFlash - 8 MB - PC Card

Manufacturer: Viking Components
ProductGroup: CE

Product Description

Viking flash cards are a high-performance storage solution that can be used in most laptops, PDAs, digital cameras, and network systems. They are superbly suited for portable applications because they are solid-state (no moving parts). This makes them 5 to 10 times more shock resistent than a normal rotating hard drive. Viking flash cards manage data blocks dynamically in order to maximize the life of the device they are installed in. An embedded EC function manages data to insure its reliability.

Amazon.com Product Description

Total capacity: 8 MB; Type: CompactFlash with adapter; Contents: 1 piece totaling a 8 MB upgrade; Technical support: (800) 845-8777, toll free, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Viking - CompactFlash Card adapter - PC Card

Average customer rating:

Worth the buy???

Viking - CompactFlash Card adapter - PC Card

Manufacturer: Viking Components
ProductGroup: CE

Product Description

Viking 56KCF-ADAPT CF modem adapter kit allows you to use a CompactFlash modem in a PC Card slot. It is manufactured with premiere components to guarantee flawless operation - even under the harshest conditions. Compact design creates a perfect portable solution.

Customer Reviews:

Worth the buy???.......2001-02-19

If you are looking for a labtop that isn't too expensive but and isn't a cheap piece of junk than this is your labtop. It's got the right amount of memory, RAM and everything else you can think of.

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Viking - Card adapter ( CF ) - flash: CompactFlash - 8 MB - PC Card

Manufacturer: Viking Components
ProductGroup: CE

Product Description

Viking - Card adapter ( CF ) - flash: CompactFlash - 64 MB - PC Card

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Viking - Card adapter ( CF ) - flash: CompactFlash - 64 MB - PC Card

Manufacturer: Viking Components
ProductGroup: CE

Product Description

Viking - Card adapter ( CF ) - flash: CompactFlash - 24 MB - PC Card

Average customer rating:

Viking - Card adapter ( CF ) - flash: CompactFlash - 24 MB - PC Card

Manufacturer: Viking Components
ProductGroup: CE

Product Description

Viking 32 MB CompactFlash Card with PC Card Adapter (CF32M-ADAPT)

Average customer rating:

Easy to setup & use - works great
Goodbye to connecting cables

Viking 32 MB CompactFlash Card with PC Card Adapter (CF32M-ADAPT)

Manufacturer: Viking Components
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Targus DMC111 Digital Memory Card Case - Black (Koskin)

Product Features:

Optimized for use in PDAs, MP3 players, or digital cameras
Write speed guaranteed to exceed 1.2 MB per second (8X) with independent test results exceeding 2.25 MB per second (15X)
High quality components guarantee steady performance, the utmost durability, and breadth of compatibility
Individually tested to ensure each product works the first time, everytime
Five year replacement warranty and 30-day money-back guarantee

ASIN: B00004TE73

Product Description

Customer Reviews:

Easy to setup & use - works great.......2001-09-21

I've never heard of Viking before but decided to try it. Setting up on my ancient Toshiba 2130 (it's a 486dx75) was so fast and effortless. It didn't come with instructions, but none were needed - i just slid the card in and Windows did the rest.

The 64MB CF card can hold about 65 pics in normal mode (I use a Nikon CoolPix 800) so that should be more than enough for a weekend trip. Using the laptop adapter should provide for limitless photos.

I'll look for Viking products from now on. And to think they just sat in coffee shops singing about Spam.

Goodbye to connecting cables.......2001-06-04

The search for aproppiate memory devices can prove frustratingly complicated on compatibility aspects, not to mention price, however Viking Components has answered my prayers time and again. This flash card, like other products from Viking Co i ve purchased, has performed excellently on a digital camera and laptop computer, (with the aid of the adapter). This combo is far easier to use than than the uncomfortable plugging and unplugging of slow USB cables, since it becomes, in essence, another drive in your laptop. Overall this has expanded my phototaking possibilities and made my life much easier transferring them.

Viking - Card adapter ( CF ) - flash: CompactFlash - 48 MB - PC Card

Average customer rating:

Great Item....

Viking - Card adapter ( CF ) - flash: CompactFlash - 48 MB - PC Card

Manufacturer: Viking Components
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

Product Description

The Viking CF48M-ADAPT is a CompactFlash card with PCMCIA adapter that increases the number of images you can shoot with your digital camera, music you can hold for your MP3 player, or files you can store with your PDA.

Customer Reviews:

Great Item...........2000-09-27

My school has one of these for the yearbook's digital cameras. Its a great addition to any Digital camera that accepts compact flash cards. The thing that makes this an even better deal is the adapter. So if you don't want to go buy a 64MB with the adapter and you want more than 32mb and the adapter then this is the one for you.

Viking 16 MB CompactFlash Card with PC Card Adapter (CF16M-ADAPT)

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Viking 16 MB CompactFlash Card with PC Card Adapter (CF16M-ADAPT)

Manufacturer: Viking Components
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

Optimized for use in PDAs, MP3 players, or digital cameras
Write speed guaranteed to exceed 1.2 MB per second (8X) with independent test results exceeding 2.25 MB per second (15X)
High quality components guarantee steady performance, the utmost durability, and breadth of compatibility
Individually tested to ensure each product works the first time, everytime
Five year replacement warranty and 30-day money-back guarantee

ASIN: B00004TE71

Product Description

Average customer rating:

Great compact little unit, good value

Good Product with Poor Remote

Fewer components the better

Well Worth The Money

JVC RX-DV3VSL DVD/Receiver Combo (Silver)

Manufacturer: JVC
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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Product Features:

AV receiver and DVD player combo unit with Direct Digital Progressive-Scan output for seamless, flicker-free display on HD or HD-ready TVs

Plays DVD-Video, CD, CD-R, CD-RW, VCD, SVCD, JPEG, and MP3 formats

100 watts x 5 (into 8 ohms at 1 kHz with no more than 0.8 percent THD; offers 100 watts from 40 to 20,000 Hz in stereo)

DVD includes variable search, slow, resume play, digest, strobe, angle and zoom

Component-video, composite-video, and S-video outputs for compatibility with a range of TVs

ASIN: B000065UVM

Amazon.com Review

As electronic devices do more and more, design simplicity grows ever more important. JVC's RX-DV3VSL is not only simple to set up and use, it's also incredibly stylish in its silver sheen and vivid blue lights. And it performs well, offering stunning progressive-scan digital video, clear sound, and myriad inputs and outputs to accommodate a range of other gear, including non-progressive-scan TVs. We found the RX-DV3VSL a delight for both home theater and music applications. The disc player loads DVDs and CDs quickly and delivers an ample 100 watts per channel. A handy "top menu" button zips you past the FBI warnings, previews, and other pre-menu annoyances written into many commercial DVDs.

The RX-DV3VSL even offers compatibility with JPEG image CDs (we love the slide-show feature!). Higher-resolution images take longer to load--up to 10 seconds on shots from a 1-megapixel camera--but higher resolution pics offer greater rewards when zooming: the unit takes you beyond 4x and 16x all the way to a blurry but amazing 1,024x. No, you can't listen to the tuner or any other source during a slide show, though that would be a good option. We found only a few other disappointments: the plastic volume knob feels cheap to the touch, and the multibrand remote control is poorly designed, with tiny volume buttons. Further, there's no onscreen display for the receiver settings, including relative speaker levels. But these are offset by related pluses: The volume decreases in appropriately tiny increments, the remote allows activation of progressive scanning from your seat, and the onscreen display shows track and artist information on MP3-encoded CDs.

Can you get better quality with separate devices? Sure. You'll especially want an outboard audio-video receiver if high power, pristine audio quality, and extra features are priorities. But for saving space and getting the job done affordably, the RX-DV3VSL will do just fine. Ample connections foster hookups with a range of AV gear. You get four stereo analog audio inputs (two outputs), two digital-audio inputs (optical and coaxial, with an optical out), and two composite-video and S-video inputs and outputs. A set of component-video outputs feeds a DVD signal to a compatible TV. Speaker terminals are the spring-clip type. A .125-inch headphone jack grants private listening. The unit comes with FM and AM antennas, a remote control, two AA batteries, a user's manual, and a composite-video cable. --Michael Mikesell

Pros:

Easy setup, two-in-one convenience
Fast disc operations (start-up, chapter advance, etc.)
Top Menu function a real time saver
JPEG slide shows a nice option
Pristine, progressive-scan video output
Sturdy build

Cons:

Cluttered remote control
Will not scan within MP3 tracks
Cannot listen to tuner or external source during JPEG slide show

Customer Reviews:

Great compact little unit, good value.......2004-02-04

Won't blow your windows out but for the price it's a very competent package. I replaced a Technics home theatre receiver and my old DVD player with this to upgrade to a DTS capable system and I haven't looked back. Excellent full-featured DVD player (slo-mo, zoom, progressive scan), and a good number of inputs for other devices including s-video and optical audio inputs which are handy if you have a latest generation game system for instance.
Sound is crisp and good considering what you pay for this little beauty and I haven't had it complain yet about driving the 12" woofers in my main speakers.
Front panel gives great quick access to sound level and balance/fade adjustments.
DVD video quality is good through the s-video output.
A few down sides: front panel buttons have a very "cheap" feel, though I haven't had any problems yet, and the remote is an ergonomic nightmare. I've had the unit for 4 months at least now but I still have to stare at the remote whenever I'm watching a DVD and the volume controls are in my opinion undersized.
Also, like most JVC players it seems, the player is slow to react to control inputs, ex: Play (when stopped), and chapter skip, and slow switching titles (for instance when accessing bonus features or when switching to the menu after the feature is over).
All told though I'm really happy with the unit's video and sound quality and convenience and and you can't beat the price.

Good Product with Poor Remote.......2003-11-20

A solid replacement for a DVD/CD player and a receiver at the same time. Excellent, clean power. Great picture. Fairly easy to set up, although the connection diagrams in the manual do not make it clear which connections are options for each other nor what are the advantages and disadvantages of the various options.
It is large and very heavy so make sure you have room for it.
There is a blue light in the middle of the DVD slot which could be annoyingly bright in low light conditions but luckily there is dim button on the remote.
The remote in general is poorly designed. It is hard to tell what does what. The common keys such as volume are no larger than, or more centrally placed, than all the other keys. This is also a problem with an older JVC DVD player I have. I would hope at some point JVC's designers would study what, for example, the Tivo folks have done to make remotes easy to use.
Displays (such as volume level) on the main unit are small and cannot be read from accross the room.

Fewer components the better.......2003-03-25

I have been using the JVC RX-DV3VSL DVD/Receiver Combo for three week and I love it. This is my first experience a combo unit and I was not sure what to expect. This is the first time I have used a HD component on my HD-ready monitor and what a difference. My regular DVD player produced a good picture but I did not realize what a difference the progressive scan makes.

For the best audio quality you need to use the fiber optic lines and get rid of the analog. The 500 total watts realy makes you feel what is happening.

I did not give it 5 stars because the remote is too small and very hard to read.

Well Worth The Money.......2003-01-01

Great DVD/Receiver combo. It has a great flicker free picture and plays a variety of media. The receiver combo makes it easy to have a realitively high powered system with only this piece, a TV, and speaker system. No other bulky components to clutter your shelves. Being a 500 watt receive does make it get quite warm so suggest an open shelf, not inside a cabinet unless it has good ventilation. So far, no complaints. A great start for a Home Theater System.

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