Myvu Personal Media Viewer Solo Plus Edition (MA-0495)

 (34 customer reviews)

I recently purchased a set of these. Personal video glasses are a difficult item to purchase because it's very hard to find a store that carries them, let alone lets you try them on before purchase, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect.

First impression out of the box: these glasses are amazingly tiny and lightweight. The branches fold up, and they can very easily fit into a jacket pocket. That's a very important point when it comes to a device meant to travel a lot: you will not think twice about carrying them, unlike a DVD player.

I found the descriptions of what you see in the glasses quite misleading: the panels are actually collimated at about a foot in front of your eyes, so the illusion is quite similar to watching the screen in the seat in front of you on an airplane. It's perfectly acceptable, but falls short of the pompous comparisons to watching a 44" big screen from 9 feet away. The field of view may be identical, but the focusing isn't...Read more

I just purchased the myvu Solo Plus and this thing is really pretty cool. I got it as a birthday present for my son who's surgically attached to his Nano iPod but I think we're going to battle over it! The myvu glasses let you watch any video that's on your iPod only it's like watching it on a regular tv and, most importantly, it's private. No more having to hold the iPod in your hand and watch movies on that little screen.

With my son's permission, I took the myvu glasses with me on a flight the other day. I just connected the myvu glasses to my iPod (which is an older model iPod but I guess the myvu works with all of them), put them on, and I'm in my own little movie-world. And no more "neighbors" seated next to me craning their necks to see what I'm looking at - although someone was very curious and asked me what the glasses were - call it "myuvu envy"! The battery lasts for about 4 hours so there's plenty of time to watch a full-length movie.

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This product works very well. The instructions are poor. You need to go to the myvu website and download the more helpful pdf version. Remember to charge it as soon as you open the package. There is a small rubber usb flap on the pendant control. Lift the flap and a usb connector is underneath. This product is well worth the money!!