PNY Attache 2GB Ghostbusters Edition

Software

Probably the biggest selling point of this drive is that it comes pre-loaded with the original Ghostbusters movie. Opening is, metaphorically, you get a few different files and a folders. The “videos” section is the actual files for the Ghostbuster movie, the Argos file opens up your browser to the Argos website – where you can buy the drive, again? – and the Ghostbusters file, starts the movie in the Attaché’s built in, basic media player.

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Checking the menu of the player you have 3 options, “Browse Files,” “Options,” and “Exit.”

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Browsing files simply lets you browse through the Ghostbusters movie; that’s it. Of course if you added other movies to the drive then you’d probably have those as options too. However, at 2GB, how many movies could you fit on there?

Within the options sub-menu there are options to:

• Always Display Time
• Always Display Seekbar
• Time Display Normal or Countdown
• Remember Position

During the playing of the actual movie it opens in a window which unfortunately you cannot completely “fullscreen”, so you’re always stuck with the top bar containing the name of the windows, and of course the 3 little top right corner icons. If you move the mouse during playback, you are given two basic controls: Volume control accessed through a slider on the right hand side, and at the top of the window is a slider that controls which bit of the film you’re watching; which also displays the time code for the current bit of film being viewed.

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The video quality is in a word, ok. It appears to have been taken from a VHS master copy or something pre-remastering as it appears to be far from the HD 1080p quality which is insinuated on the packaging. However, on closing inspection it merely states that the drive can hold 1080P videoor pictures. Really PNY? A floppy disk could hold 1080p video, only for 1/4 of a second, but still, it’s 1080p!

Audio quality is similar with nothing being particularly crisp, but the entire package is perfectly watchable. Just as when watching Blu-ray the whole “ooh look how good it looks” or in this case “ooh, it’s a bit fuzzy” idea goes away quickly and you’re straight in to watching one of the true cinema classics of the 80s. It’s a nice addition, but it’s a shame that the video and audio quality wasn’t higher.

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