Rave-MP is reentering the MP3 player market with at least two new units, the Rave-MP ARC [pictured] and the Rave-MP AMP, the former a hard disk-based player available in 2.5GB and 5GB versions, with the latter a less-interesting but still decent flash-based player. I had a chance to sit down with some of the folks from Rave-MP the other night and play around with both units, and they seem nice enough as far as that goes — and the price is right, at $229 for the 5GB version — but I can’t really get past the fact that the ARC looks sort of lifeless. It looks a little better in person, but not by much.
Still, I think Go Video has some commitment to getting back into the game, so it will be interesting to see where they go from here. If they could release an ARC 2 with the same specs and a more stylish form factor, I think they’d take a nice bite of the market (especially if retails drop the price a little. $230 is a little too close to the iPod mini’s $250.)
Read – Press Release [GoVideo]
