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ZVUE's $99 Video and MP3 Player
blackmonday writes "Hand Held Entertainment's ZVUE is an MP3 player, video and photo viewer with a color screen. At the price of $99, I think it might be worth the investment for the hacking potential alone. Uses Secure Digital/MMC cards rather than Compact Flash, but looks very cool. The funniest part - you can buy cartridges (apparently in some propietary format) of low budget wrestling movies and wannabe rapper videos."
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I bet it could be used as a pretty neat MP3 and video player too!
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Just wait till you get buy low budget porn cards. Then things will really take off.
Seriously, I just don't get why you'd want to watch video's at a resolution so small.
... It sounds like the videos are going to shit on you..
Hot new music videos, extreme radical sports, wild, action videos that wreak havoc and lay waste
Who the hell uses the word "radical" anymore? WTF are "wild, action video that wreak havoc and lay waste"
Ugh.. just lame...
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Five comments, and already slashdotted. Sigh.
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Now I'm really going to have to wait for a bathroom stall to open up.. portable pr0n.. just what we all needed...
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Are they using this gadget to power their site?
No specs at all that I can find but at the bottom of their FAQ is this:
Why does the low battery indicator come on after I put in fresh batteries and use them for only a short time?
Depending on the type and brand of battery, the low battery indicator may come on while there are still hours of battery life left. You can continue to use the ZVUE until the batteries actually run down. You should also be aware, that when the batteries are low, the ZVUE may not operate properly.
huh?
$99 for a a nice gadget. Seeing videos in this small screen is awlful, but it looks great to show the digital photos of your last trip for your friends while drinking a beer without computers around. It should be cheaper to have just a photo display device. This is usually a good use of color PDAs, but they are expensive. Does anyone here know about a cheap, good, and linux compatible device just to display photos? An internal HD would be better than a compact flash one.
As opposed to the high budget wrestling movies like "No Holds Barred" and ...,ummm, "All The Marbles" and ...umm, ...films like that.
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Because even beyond the flavor of embedded OS or Ogg support, the portable device deal breaker for the true geek is whether or not it can be added to the "belt arsenal".
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The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
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Please try the following:
If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly.
Open the www.zvue.com home page, and then look for links to the information you want.
Click the Back button to try another link.
Click Search to look for information on the Internet.
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I'd rather have a bigger screen at the cost of some color and video quality.
Hmm.... Looks like I've found a buyer for my 5 year old 10" black and white TV. In fact, I'll sell it to you for the same price as this gadget, just 100 bucks.
Being a "platinum selling rap artist" is alot like wining the special Olympics, yea you won, but you're still a retard.
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WTF are "wild, action video that wreak havoc and lay waste
'WTF' is so dot-com boom. Get with the times.
Ugh.. just lame...
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As for video, it uses a highly compressed, rights-protected, proprietary video format
In the future it may support some more things, but right now no. This thing is more closed than a Microsoft legal meeting.
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