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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."
Cool! I am still fiddling with the I-Opener from several years ago. Now something else to splice into the Jeep :)
Maybe I could use it for the OBD-II display?
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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?
Yet another memory card format to contend with, ugh.
Pretty hyped site. Little on useful information. :-/
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It'd be sweet to wire one of these into the front of a casing & set it up as a secondary monitor for performance data.
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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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Zvue supports DivX video standard
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?
Sounds interesting, but appears slashdotted already. In the mean time, does anyone know of a similar device which is Cd-based?
.jpg/etc and text files from the CD (and of course play audio and MP3).
Imagine one of those little round MP3-CD players, except it has a small color screen instead of 2 line LCD-readout, and it property display video files,
Does such exist? Am I the only one who would be interested in it?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
a hacking potential, and as for memory formats, who really cares? I have an xD card camera, and the card I have in it is going to stay in it (512MB) and the one that came with it, a 32MB card, is really too small to do anything with. My camera is also not going anywhere, and if it breaks, I'll get another one or one from the same line, as the features are what I want (shameless plug for Olympus Z-50). Granted, I'd prefer a less expensive format such as CF, but if it turns out to be something I like, the memory used for this one would probably also be restricted to just this one device.
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
For what it is worth, Lil' Jon is a platinum selling rap artist. He currently is involved with 2 songs in the top 20 of the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart and 3 songs in the top 50 of the Hot 100.
I've reviewed one of these directly from Hand Held Entertainment and it's not all it's cracked up to be, the design doesn't fit in your pocket (tested in bluejeans) very well and it only supports mp3 (not ogg)
Additionally, they sent some of the proprietary cartridges to try out, 2 out of the 3 freebie proprietary cartridges we tested did not work.
I wouldn't pay cash for it.
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Look here. It is not the same site as the slashdotted one, but at least you can see what it looks like.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
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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Cybiko is a low-cost, hackable handheld computer released at the end of 2000. Forum leaders may soon expand the boards to officially cover the ZVUE - it's a logical step from the Cybiko computer.
Feel free to discuss the ZVUE in the Development boards.
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He didn't say it was hackable, just that the chances were good.
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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.
If it uses Secure Media for storage of said "mp3s and pictures", it's unlikely you'll be able to hack it unless you can crack the content keys, or provide your own "secured" media.
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And I allready have SD/SDIO cards for my PDA. Whats your point? SD/SDIO is smaller and faster then CF. This is why its getting used more and more over CF. Should we be bitching that this thing isn't supporting six inch floppy disks as well?
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Can be found here with picture of the thing here. Apparently it plays DivX too.
...how long will it take for someone to reverse-engineer the format so that we can make our own SD/MMC cards with our own video (space-shifted from our legally-purchased DVD's [yes, I'm serious...] or 'home video'.)?
That is the specific feature that'd make it useful to me. I have no need of a special proprietary-format-only player where the low-quality proprietary video cards cost as much as full DVD's, especially when portable DVD players seem to be obtainable these days for only $50-$100 more than this player is selling for.
(Hmmm...what's the capacity of the SD cards with the proprietary movies on them? Can they be erased and used as normal SD cards for other applications?)
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Compgeeks has them for $144.50; you can check the site for the specs. It has MP4 capability, which is nice for you Xvid fans. For those of you who don't understand why we're griping that it has no CF slot, perhaps you'll understand better after I tell you that people have been getting cheap 4GB minidrive CF cards by cracking open devices such as the Creative Lab's Muvo2 MP3 player -- i.e. the higher capacity drives/memory cards so far, tend to be CF cards. It's still up in the air whether or not the 4GB minidrive from the Apple iPod can be used in devices that support CF Type II cards.
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