[Creech]

Anybody know much about this product?

http://www.tightsystems.com/main.htm


Apparently it has an ethernet port, removable MP3 player, and swappable 60 gig HD.


Storage Capacity - at least 60 gigabytes; 2.5 inch hard drive; SD/MMC card slot


Screen - 4 inch diagonal transflective TFT LCD with 640x480 resolution; 4:3 aspect ratio


Audio Formats Supported - MP3, Monkey's Ape (lossless), OGG Vorbis


Audio Inputs - On-board microphone; line in (stereo)


Audio Outputs - 2 headphone jacks; digital optical out; line out


Video Formats Supported - MPEG1, 2, 4, AVI, DivX; NTSC, PAL (video frame rates supported: 24fps, 25 fps, 30 fps, all)


Video Inputs - composite video


Video Outputs - composite, S video, component (Y Pr Pb)


Video Output Formats - SDTV (480i); HDTV (480p, 720p, 1080i)


Photo Formats Supported - JPG, GIF, TiFF, BMP


Network/Connectivity - USB 2.0; on-board 10/100 ethernet


Power - Internal XV DC battery; approximately 9 hours video playback, 20 hours audio


Host PC Software - customized version of leading multimedia software suite


Accessories: Sennheiser PX-200 headphones; hand-made leather carrying case; connecting cables; battery charger


System Requirements - Windows 98, 2000, XP (future compatibility planned for Apple and Linux)


Dimensions (approx.) - 6.3" x 4.2" x 1.5"

 

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You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?


Portable replayTV show viewer or thin client?

 

[Creech]

Kinda what I was getting at...yep.

 

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Sure looks like it would be a *KEWL* toy if it could do that.

 

[paeriscope]

Don't hold your breath on availability of the Taz toy. It's been at the vaporware stage for a while now.


I've got an Archos AV3XX and the programmers at work on a replacement OS (avos.sf.net) have a better and more realistic shot at turning out a RTV-compatible mobile player.


I currently have to use DVArchive to download RTV files, then convert to DIVX, and finally watch my RTV programs. It certainly isn't plug-and-play, but I'm hopeful that avOS will be capable of making it plug-and-play in the future.

 

[Jeff D]

Yeah I was going to say... isn't this product at least 2 years old? I remember reading about it a long, long, long time ago.

 

[Slack]

FFS this thing still isn't shipping in mass quantities??


Get an Archos" at least I've held one them in my hands. The newest does mpg2, not just DivX.