This is probably gonna sound weird coming from someone who works in (new) media, but I don’t watch TV. I watch less than an hour of TV every week, and that includes those moments when you just turn it on for background noise. I have been known to use the TV as a viewer for stuff I’ve pulled off the P2P, which is why this tiny credit-card-sized TV Box from ComPro looks mighty tasty. The fact that it’ll fit in your pocket and leave enough space for a big ol’ chunk o’ change is the kicker here I think. According to the press release, this thing has everything you need from a TV Box – MPEG-1/2/4 formats scheduled recording, timeshifting, channel surfing, still frame capture, S-Video, composite video and stereo audio capturing, remote control and supports universal TV system broadcasting reception (NTSC, PAL, and SECAM) and NICAM stereo — all without having to carry around an extra power adapter. Not sure exactly how much it’s going for, but its brother the U800 costs about 2880 Taiwan dollars (an educated guess, so don’t quote me on that) or US$85.
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Videomate U900
20 Oct 2005Leave a Reply
