I saw the Viliv S7 info but this unit did not appeal to me. The email address is on the Viliv web site. I sent an email to viliv@myviliv.com and they responded to me within a day. There is a ton of information on the S7 in this forum.

I am not sure about the release date (Chippy can comment on that if he knows) but from what I read. Viliv sold 100 units in Korea and they had to be sent back to have the casing modified. The plastic shell (casing) of the unit was not molded correctly and the finish quality ended up looking horrible. I don’t remember all of the details, came across this during my research of the S5. Most of the info was in Korean so I had to use Google to translate the pages. You can firm that up with your own research.

I may be going with a Everun D60H after all of my research. I just wish there was another product capable of handling .mkv 720p movies without a stutter. I am quite impressed with the D60H, battery life is not as great as I would like. But I guess power is a the trade off to battery life.

Even the Viliv website have only the S5 up for sale.. what about the Viliv S7 and X70… anyone knows when they are expected to be released, any hint or idea would be highly appreciated as I am thinking about buying a Gigabyte 7″ m704, but if Viliv is launching any of the 7″ devices I will gladly wait…

Any idea Chippy, Mike W ???

Please someone reply

(Note to Mike W to which VILIV email address did you send, was it in english??)

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Not sure if this helps but here is whats inside the mkv container:

720p : English, 6065 Kbps (6372 Kbps) 1280*688 (1.860) at 23.976 fps, AVC

1080p : English, 8446 Kbps (8892Kbps) 1920*1040 at 23.976 fps, AVC

By the way I emailed Viliv and they said this product will be realeased near the end of April in the US. Not sure if they will make that happen but I hope they do. With the Korean market creating such a demand as you said, I dont know if they can supply the US market anytime soon.

Viliv also sent this over to me. Its all pretty much on there web site and UMPC Portal, this just makes it easy to find it all:

EXPOLING THE POSSIBLITY: VILIV S5 PEMIUM.

Multimedia Experience with I-TUNES
By simply downloading the I-tunes from http://www.apple.com, you can enjoy the same experience of I-POD touch. It is strength of “Window XP based Portable open platform”. You can enjoy the millions of contents such as video and mp3 files through I-tunes shop, Amazon.com and etc.
Availability of contents can be varied depending on region of county.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6xIGzqW_kc

Full Internet Experience and Dual Browsing System: FastWeb Browser service vs. MicroSoft IE
Viliv S5 has MS IE for full internet experience as well as Fastweb browser like Apple’s Safari.
Comparing with MS IE, Fastweb Browser is server based web viewing solution. It is at least 5 times faster than MS IE due to reducing the browsing data even though it does not play the movie clip in the internet. It must be shinning more under limited bandwidth environment such.
The fastweb service is not free. It will be charged after 6 month user trial.

You can feel the difference how it is different from MS IE after watching the linked video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGW1sEf1WJM&feature=related

TURN-BY-TURN NAVIGATION AND GPS APPLICATION
Viliv S5 is a GPS built in window based ultra mobile PC system. You can feel the performance of GPS and exploring the possibility of “Window XP based Portable open platform”. Also, Video will introduce you how it is easy to install viliv S5 in your car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=BbBKl7-nB6s

For North America,
You might realize how you can utilize the GPS built in viliv S5.
http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,2806,4832,00.asp

See the detail review of GPS software for North America
Garmin Mobile PC: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2336525,00.asp
Microsoft Streets & Trips 2009 with GPS Locator: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2334407,00.asp

And Europe and Asia PC map are available for Garmin and MAP King as well. New PC Map will be added.

720P & 1080P HD VIDEO PLAYBACK
Atom Silverthorne processor equipped viliv S5 can support hardware accelerated video Playback. Most of 720P HD video is supported except WMV 720P, and H.264 codec encoded 1080p video clip can be played.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvrYL2Xksig&NR=1

720P TV out through Multi-Output Cable Port & Cable(Cable is optional)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su-0IU4BU_g&feature=related

In General Performance of Viliv S5

http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/02/viliv-s5-pre-orders-sold-out-in-15-minutes-review-information.

EXPOLING THE POSSIBLITY: VILIV S5 EXPRESS: NO GPS, 16G SSD MODEL.

The long lasting battery life and XP based Ultra mobile system gives new possibility of mobile office. Viliv S5 Express equipped with SSD can increase the battery time at least one and half hours.

See the lots of B2B application for your sales person using mobile office viliv S5 with existing PC infrastructure.

Sales Force Automation S/W
http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,2806,4828,00.asp

AND LOTS OF APPLICATIONS: EXPLORING THE POSSIBLITY
http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,2806,2201,00.asp

I Hope that helps. Thank you

Mike

Also what are the options for video output? I can see there is a multi I/O port but what does it support? I hope there is a HDMI/DVI and s-video output.

Also could you please try if it is possible to run Elisa (http://elisa.fluendo.com/) and XBMC (http://xbmc.org/) on the S5? That would be perfect for multimedia playback.