Gadget Friday: SanDisk Sansa TakeTV Video Player

Well, here we are at yet another Friday. So enough of me bitching about the rest of the world, and on to the gadgets. I ran across one that isn't very new, but not a lot of people know about it and I think it's just cool. It's the SanDisk Sansa TakeTV Video Player. This thing is sweet.

It's a small video player, about the size of a candy bar, that you plug into your pc via USB. Then you dump your movie on it just like it was a flash drive. Then you take it over to your tv, plug in the AV cables, detach the remote control and enjoy your movie on your TV!!! Is that fuckin cool or what?? Of course this leads a couple of extra places like, jacking it into your office projector.

It comes in 4gb ($99) and an 8gb ($149) models respectively. Specs from the Sandisk site are below.

Feature List

• Connects to any PC:
  
  • USB 2.0 compliant
  • Works with Mac, Linux, Windows Vista and Windows XP
• Connects to any standard TV – Supported AV Outputs:
  
  • Composite Video
  • Analog Stereo
  • S-Video
• Remote control—for use in the comfort of your living room
• Compact convenient and lightweight:
• Supports .AVI format with either MPEG-4, DivX or xVid codec
• Supports NTSC and PAL color systems
• Resolution of up to 720x576 (D1) at a bitrate of up to 7Mbps.
• 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios and a range of viewing modes
• DivX (Home Theater profile) certified
• DivX DRM compliant
• Standard replaceable remote control battery

Minimum System Requirements

• Mac, Linux, Windows® XP or Windows Vista™ operating system
• USB 1.1 or USB 2.0
• TV with either s-video or composite (CVBS) video inputs

Package Contents

• TakeTV™ player
• TakeTV™ remote control (battery included)
• TakeTV™ cradle w/intergrated cables (composite/s-video)
• AC power adapter

4GB*	8GB*
5 hours** of video	10 hours** of video

* 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes. Some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus is not available for data storage.
** Video capacity based on MPEG-4 1.5-Mbps video at 720x480 pixel resolution combined with 128-Kbps audio. Actual capacity varies by content.


How fuckin cool is that?? Video of it in action below!