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ZVUE's $99 Video and MP3 Player

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the still-no-hard-drive dept.

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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  1. My Own Low Budget Rap... by blackmonday · · Score: 5, Funny

    After 2 years of tryin,
    I' think I must be dyin,
    Today sure hits the spot
    cuz I got my first article posted on slashdot!

    Can I get a hell yeah?

    1. Re:My Own Low Budget Rap... by liquidsin · · Score: 4, Funny

      I was gonna visit your band site, as linked in your sig. Then I read your post...



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    2. Re:My Own Low Budget Rap... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      My ISP is cryin'
      My web server is die'n
      The CPU's too hot
      cuz my site got posted on slashdot!

  2. Why can't you just USE the damned thing?? by Trolling4Columbine · · Score: 5, Funny
    "At the price of $99, I think it might be worth the investment for the hacking potential alone."

    I bet it could be used as a pretty neat MP3 and video player too!

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    Socialism: A feeling of discontent and resentment caused by a desire for the possessions or qualities of another.
  3. Low Budget Porn Cards by DaRat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just wait till you get buy low budget porn cards. Then things will really take off.

    1. Re:Low Budget Porn Cards by Lord+Kano · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think that they'll need to start selling a stand or tripod or something, a "handheld" player would be useless for porn without one.

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      "Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
  4. I just don get it... by DeionXxX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously, I just don't get why you'd want to watch video's at a resolution so small.

    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" ... It sounds like the videos are going to shit on you..

    Ugh.. just lame...

    --D3X
    NeoX3.com: The One Site for Free Adult Entertainment...

  5. I hope their video players... by Rikardon · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...are more durable than their servers!

    Five comments, and already slashdotted. Sigh.

    =)

  6. great... by thrillbert · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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    How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.

  7. Loading ... by No_Weak_Heart · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are they using this gadget to power their site?

  8. ..low budget wrestling movies ... by burgburgburg · · Score: 3, Funny

    As opposed to the high budget wrestling movies like "No Holds Barred" and ...,ummm, "All The Marbles" and ...umm, ...films like that.

  9. Page text, for those that couldn't read it : by Glonoinha · · Score: 4, Funny

    The page cannot be found
    The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

    ---

    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.

    HTTP 400 - Bad Request
    Internet Explorer

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    Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
  10. Re:Full Color! High-Res! on a 2" x 2" screen :( by Yi+Ding · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  11. Re:Wannabe - not quite by Monkelectric · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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    Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley

  12. Re:Wannabe - not quite by jwriney · · Score: 4, Funny

    (scholarly voice)
    Lil' Jon : Pardon me, sir, but will this post reflect negatively upon my karma rating?
    Mod : It depends on if the other moderators find it funny.

    (brief pause)

    Lil' Jon : What?
    Mod : It depends on if the other moderators find it funny.
    Lil' Jon : What?
    Mod : It depends on if the other moderators find it funny.
    Lil' Jon : What?
    Mod: (-1, Troll)
    Lil' Jon : OKAYYYYYY!

    --riney
    (a-skeet skeet skeet skeet)

  13. Re:Six inch floppies? by martinX · · Score: 4, Funny

    When 3.5" floppies were introduced to South Africa, in order to distinguish them from the flexible and floppy 5.25" disks, they were called "stiffies" ... so the campaign was 'would you rather have a 5.25" floppy or a 3.5" stiffy".

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