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Savitmicro NTP-25 plays lotsa movies
comment: 10 | Thursday, August 18 (2005) 11:36AM | Posted by Robert Sinke
... but it'll need an external screen to output those files. It's one out of billions of "portable multimedia without a screen", but they've made it look pretty and shiny, all reflective and stuff. And you know we like stuff, among other things.

  • Plays Divx 3.x,Xvid,MPEG 1/2(IFO,ISO,DAT)
  • supports MP3,Ogg Vorbis,WMA,WAV,AC3
  • displays JPEG,BMP(max res: 1920x1080)
  • TV-out: HD Component YpYbPr,Composite
  • Audio-out characteristics:2CH strero(Audio L,R), digital:Coaxial
  • External IR connector
  • HD Component(480p,720p,1080i)
  • HDD file format: FAT 32 / NTFS
  • HDD type: 2.5-inch drive (laptop HDD)
  • Text support: SMI,SUB,SRT,S2K,SSA,TXT,RT
  • PC connection: USB 2.0(480Mbps)
  • Measures 134.5 x 78 x20mm
  • Weighs 400 grams
  • Input:AC 90V~250V / Output:DC 5V
It looks like a PDA on steroids with a funky useless OLED screen, but it's not. Better luck next time. More cool pictures over at AVING
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shiftis
Location: Canada
Comments: 369
 		Aug 18 (2005) 02:28PM  

No screen? Ouch.



iRiverRox

Comments: 5
 		Aug 18 (2005) 03:34PM  

How many GBs?



Robert Sinke

Comments: 1221
 		Aug 18 (2005) 03:43PM  

up to you. yank in any 2.5-inch hard drive you can find. Max 120GB at the moment, if memory serves me right. 100GB at least.



jech

Comments: 3
 		Aug 18 (2005) 04:00PM  

I already mentioned it here before. If a device claims it supports DivX 5 or XviD, it has to support MPEG-4 ASP video compression. There is not a single player which does it. Not a single device (except of PC) can play all XviD encoded videos.
So you can say it supports MPEG-4 SP (Simple Profile - DivX 3 and 4) and optionaly some ASP profile functions (Q-PEL, B-frames, 1-poin GMC). MPEG-4 ASP (Advanced Simple Profile) codecs are DivX 5 and 6, XviD, FFMPEG, 3ivX, Nero Digital ASP and many others. But they can be set to produce video compatible with Simple Profile. If it can play one of them, it plays them all. They are compatible to each other.
So I believe it would be just fime to write it plays MPEG-4 (DivX, XviD,...). And you may also mention GMC, Q-PEL and B-frames, if this information is available. Please try to write it this way, otherwise you'll spread more and more the confusion with MPEG-4 codecs. Try to tell the reader that DivX is MPEG-4 and XviD as well and therfore are they both compatible. Thank you.

P.S. Sorry for my poor English.



Fryhole

Comments: 137
 		Aug 19 (2005) 12:24AM  

I'll say what no one else has the gall to say...Who on earth needs this thing and where the hell are they?!

No normal DAP user would want a bulky 2.5 inch drive based player short of a gargantuin music collection, and even then why pay for this tiny screened video player probably expensive piece of gadget?

Who would pay for this? Why would you buy something that can ONLY play videos when connected to something else? Rather, why would it need to be portable?

What the hell kind of niche are they going for?



Robert Sinke

Comments: 1221
 		Aug 19 (2005) 11:10AM  

Thes things are quite popular, actually. Lotsa companies making similar stuff. Since it comes with a standard, cheap laptop drive, or none at all (user has to insert one by himself) and there's no screen... cuts back on manufacturing costs enormously. This results in the device being... cheap... and all. And cheap is still a good characteristic for drawing large crowds.

Plus, 100GB holds a lot of movies. Youl probably won't be watching all of those on a 3.5-inch screen anyway. Also acts as a huge portable storage device too. Some of these "MediaGates" also encode video through tv-in. There are enough reasons to justify these things' existence.



shiftis
Location: Canada
Comments: 369
 		Aug 19 (2005) 03:09PM  

Yeah, that's true.



jv

Guest
 		Aug 20 (2005) 11:10AM  

Yep. I own one similiar to this, actually: a Ximeta MediaShare Mini I bought for $80. Full support of Divx/Xvid (no need to reencode) out of the box. Dropped in a 30GB salvaged from a dead Zen Xtra and had it working in no time. I'm actually looking to get that Mitsubish battery-powered projector sometime so I have a home theater on the go.

You could do the same with an XBox, but it's not as easy to get one of those in your pocket.



caseyabt

Comments: 1
 		Aug 20 (2005) 06:03PM  

jv, where did you get the mediashare mini? I am really interested in it.

jc



jv

Guest
 		Aug 22 (2005) 09:27AM  

jc, I got my Mediashare Mini from Fry's earlier this year. They seem to have odds and ends at times, and this one caught my eye. AFAIK, when they carried the unit it wasn't officially released yet, and to date, I've seen no one else sell it.

I'm pretty sure I recently saw the unit rebadged; you may have better luck looking for that online. Good luck!



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