Sansa TakeTVTM Lets You Take Your Movies With You
Sansa is set to release a very
cool new product that seems so simple yet we wonder why we haven't seen something like this before. It is basically a USB memory stick that you load with videos from your PC, plug into a dock that hooks up to your TV and then with the supplied remote you can watch those videos on your TV. It sounds simple, but no one until now has come out with anything to do this as simply as this.
What we like about the
TakeTVTM is that it doesn't mess around with encoders or decoders, it just streams the data to its base station which then just passes the infomation on to the TV. Having to deal with encoding and/or decoding really taxes these small devices and it usually is a bottleneck in performance as well as a big bump in price.
The
TakeTVTM will let you display your videos on your TV with a resolution of 720x526 so we aren't talking HD, but it is still very nice for such a small and conveinent device. It will let you view files that are encoded with
And choose either 16:9 or 4:3. Now this is a Windows only device so no Linux or Mac support expected. There is no release date or pricing yet but we can't imagine this will be too expensive based on what we have read. Also no word on capacity, but you can expect it to come in a few different version from say 4GB to 8GB. We will be sure to update you when we find out how much and when.
UPDATE: On sale now at
Amazon.
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gizmodo at
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Posted by David Ficocello at October 22, 2007 7:59 PM
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