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I may have just missed this, but reading the Business Week article that came out today about "digital convergence"

at http://biz.yahoo.com/bizwk/030306/b3823088mz063_1.html

the following snippet caught my eye:

With storage this cheap, it's easy for RCA to stuff 20 gigabytes into its $400 handheld personal video recorder, which can handle 80 hours of video.

Is this product available today? Anybody know anything about it?

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Hmmm... I think not. I suspect this is a "it's easy to see that they could do this" article.

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With storage this cheap, it's easy for RCA to stuff 20 gigabytes into its $400 handheld personal video recorder, which can handle 80 hours of video.

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RCA has announced a version of its Lyra MP3 player that will have a 2.5" LCD screen for videos. For such a small LCD, I would imagine they could compress the tar out of an mpeg file.

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RCA has announced a version of its Lyra MP3 player that will have a 2.5" LCD screen for videos. For such a small LCD, I would imagine they could compress the tar out of an mpeg file.

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Originally posted by mikedaly

There is no such handheld PVR from RCA. The article was speaking in hypotheticals. And when you think about it, is there any real utility in a handheld PVR?

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I would buy a device that could take programs off my Tivo that I could plug into the RCA jacks for the DVD system in our minivan, IN A SECOND! Even if it only had 20 hours, that's be plenty. With lots of episodes of Powerpuff Girls, Yugioh, DragonballZ etc. , road trips would be bliss!

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That's a very good point that I hadn't thought of. Thanks! You could even use it to take a show (or shows) to somebody else's house to watch them. Interesting... Too bad it doesn't exist.

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I would buy a device that could take programs off my Tivo that I could plug into the RCA jacks for the DVD system in our minivan, IN A SECOND! Even if it only had 20 hours, that's be plenty. With lots of episodes of Powerpuff Girls, Yugioh, DragonballZ etc. , road trips would be bliss!

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The player has a 3.5 inch screen. Here is a picture:
http://gizmodo.net/archives/000976.php#000976

Here is the press release. Available this summer:
http://www.rca.com/content/viewdeta...-CI258,00.html?

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Originally posted by mikedaly
Yah, no doubt. I would say the key word in your post, though, is PLAYER.

There is no such handheld PVR from RCA. The article was speaking in hypotheticals. And when you think about it, is there any real utility in a handheld PVR?

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Here is the press release. Available this summer...

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And a price of $399...sweet! It makes one wonder if devices like this become popular at that price point, if it will push other, more established PVRs down in price...

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The player has a 3.5 inch screen. Here is a picture:
http://gizmodo.net/archives/000976.php#000976

Here is the press release. Available this summer:
http://www.rca.com/content/viewdeta...-CI258,00.html?

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Hmm. Archos Multimedia Jukebox does this now, at about $350.

Of course neither is a PVR, but neither really needs to be -- as long as you have a way to port your content out from the TiVo to the handheld device. And if TiVo has any say, you never will...

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I have been waiting for a device like this because it includes 2 different functions that I have a use for. I take a lot of digital pictures while on vacation and I have had to bring along my laptop to dump the pics on at the end of every day. I have looked into various digital wallet devices that are basically portable hard drives with flash memory slots for dumping your pics.

The only problem is that many of them are from small manufacturers and their design and build qualities are not great. I kept waiting for a company like Apple to add a flash memory slot to their iPod -- it already has the hard drive they just need the slot.

The RCA device handles that capability. The fact that it adds video playback also helps on some of those vacations. Throwing a few videos for my daughter to watch will make the plane rides easier and if we are in another country we can watch a show back in the hotel at the end of the day , rather than watching "Knightrider" in German.

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At CES where the RCA device was revealed, Microsoft also joined forces with Intel to build a reference platform for handheld video players (they do not record).

Intel had been working with SonicBlue prior to that, so I do not know if Intel is supporting two reference designs or if SonicBlue is going to use the MS platform.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/pmp/

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Hmm. Archos Multimedia Jukebox does this now, at about $350.

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I saw the intel version at CES, and I really liked it.

It would be great for a plain if you don't feel like lugging your laptop around, you can offload a ton of stuff from your Tivo, hopefully, and watch it while you're away. Plus you can free up that space on your Tivo to use up while you're away.

I think it also plays mp3's, display's photos, and may even be used as a portable hard drive for files etc...

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And when you think about it, is there any real utility in a handheld PVR?

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Here is another device just announced. This one is also a phone. I think there will be a large number of competitors in this space.

http://news.com.com/2100-1041-991545.html?tag=cd_mh

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Plus you can plug it into a TV if you want to. I don't know how good it would look, but i think you can.

And why does everything have to be a phone too? I'm going to end up carrying 4 phones with me everywhere, just because I want wireless internet or a portable video player

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They just had this in Popular Science this month. I looked at it and thought it was cool but of little use. You would not be able to just record dvds to it with out alot of trouble. Then I thought if it as a recorde in on it i could hook the video output of my tivo to it and then just run save to VCR.
This would be great. I could watch all my tv any where I want. But the key is a recorde in. I dont want to have to use the video capture card of my computer and mess with compression and file formats to make it work.
3.5 inches is suprisingly useful for watching tv. (iv watch on a 3 inch and been quite pleased) It has a tv out on it so its great for the car of a friends house (so long as the quality is tolerable) All it needs is record in and its a done deal, I would buy one today if I could.
This device is the next step in the tivolution. (listen up TivoPony there could be a big raise in this idea for you) TiVo and RCA would start the next logical step in the revoultion TiVo started. Not only can I watch shows when I want and how I want, I can watch them where I want. Through a partnership they could make it so that you connect the USB port of the TiVo to the USB of the lyra and transfer the video at high speed as a file instead of a record in. (all legal issues aside ...a big if)
IM IN!!

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