Rumor: Xbox 2 Hard Drive Also a Portable Music Player?

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40GB portable hard drive/card reader/MP3
player

40GB portable hard drive/card reader/MP3
player 12/12/2003 02:01 PM
New from Vosonic, a portable 40GB USB 2.0 hard drive with a built-in 6-in-1 card reader (for storing photos when you run out of...

Sony To Make Hard Drive Music Player

Sony To Make Hard Drive Music Player 04/20/2004 07:17 AM
Sony's going to make a hard drive-based MP3 player to compete with the iPod, according to this Times story, but they aren't throwing in the towel with MiniDisc and MemoryStick, either. It makes sense; why wouldn't Sony produce a little bit of everything, then let the consumer decide? All the...

HP planning its own hard drive MP3
player and online music store

HP planning its own hard drive MP3
player and online music store 12/04/2003 01:20 AM
Not to be left behind by Dell and Apple, HP is planning to launch its own hard drive based MP3 player and online music store early next year. Read [Via Slashdot]...

1.8" USB Portable Hard Drive

1.8" USB Portable Hard Drive 05/30/2004 04:16 PM

1.8' USB Portable Hard Drive

1.8' USB Portable Hard Drive 05/30/2004 05:32 PM
Slashdot May 30 2004 9:15PM GMT

Xbox 2: Hard Drive or No?

Xbox 2: Hard Drive or No? 03/06/2004 01:57 AM
It's getting so complicated. First came the rumors that the Xbox 2 [at right, in mythical prototype form] wouldn't have a hard drive. Then, enough...

Seagate 100Gb USB 2.0 Portable Hard
Drive

Seagate 100Gb USB 2.0 Portable Hard
Drive 03/14/2005 05:46 PM

Logitec LHD-PBM2GU2, Portable 2.2GB 1"
Hard Drive

Logitec LHD-PBM2GU2, Portable 2.2GB 1"
Hard Drive 01/05/2005 01:46 PM

While certainly not the first time I've seen a product like this, Japanese manufacturer Logitec also appears to be jumping on the "use hard drives instead of flash, because flash is expensive" boat. Less than 0.4" thick and 1.96" wide and tall, Logitec's LHD-PBM2GU2 has a 2.2GB capacity, and costs around 17,800 yen ($170 USD). Going by my "50 cents per gigabyte" philosophy of purchasing hard drives, though, it seems I'll be waiting about 20 years before I can actually get something like this. One thing I do like about the unit is the universal USB 2.0 support — no special drivers are required on modern flavors of Windows or MacOS. By the way, Logitec is not the Japanese Logitech.

Press Release [Logitec]

Related
Hand Made 5GB USB Hard Drives [Gizmodo]

Hard drive may remain in Xbox 2 after
all

Hard drive may remain in Xbox 2 after
all 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
A recent patent granted to Microsoft may mean that their next-generation Xbox may still be sporting an internal hard drive. One thing for sure — it won't be hitting the market anytime soon.

Xbox 2 Won't Include Hard Drive

Xbox 2 Won't Include Hard Drive 03/06/2004 01:53 AM

Sony's Hard Drive MP3 Player

Sony's Hard Drive MP3 Player 01/16/2004 01:05 PM
MacWorld.co.uk reports on Sony's newly announced hard-drive based MP3 player -- the Giga Pavit. The new player from Sony is the first to use the re...

Neowin Review : Seagate 100Gb USB 2.0
Portable Hard Drive

Neowin Review : Seagate 100Gb USB 2.0
Portable Hard Drive 03/14/2005 06:26 PM
Harddrives : a critical part of any personal computer. They store our personal data, files, operating systems and much more. Over the last decade, the industry has gone through some major changes both in terms of the hardware and the companies involved.

Seagate is one of an increasingly small number of harddrive vendors to stick through tough times and keep on producing good gear. Founded in 1979, the company stayed at the forefront of the industry making the first 5.25" harddrive, the first 7,200 RPM diskdrive, and the first fiber channel interface disk drive.

<strong>Today, we're looking at a portable harddrive from Seagate</strong>. It's basically a small (2.5") harddrive packed inside a strong shell with a high speed, USB 2 adaptor on rear; it's also got a bright blue LED light for good measure. Seagate offer two version of the drive; a 40gig version and a 100gig version - we looked at the 100gig version. Read on the review!

View: Seagate Portable Harddrive Review, Exclusive to Neowin
View: Discussion

Read full story...

Microsoft 'takes hard drive out' of Xbox
2

Microsoft 'takes hard drive out' of Xbox
2 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
The Register Mar 5 2004 10:17AM GMT

EDGE Tech Corp Announces 400GB Portable
Hard Drive

EDGE Tech Corp Announces 400GB Portable
Hard Drive 04/11/2005 02:18 PM



EDGE Tech announced today the release of a 400GB 3.5" portable hard drive. This is latest addition to the company's DiskGO! portable drive product line and the largest capacity offering to date from EDGE. The company's entire line of DiskGO! 3.5" portable hard drives support USB 2.0 and FireWire (IEEE-1394) interfaces and are available for sale at all of EDGE's reseller and distribution partners. In addition to the new 400GB capacity, this product is also available in 80GB, 120GB, 160GB, and 250GB capacities. The 400GB portable drive will have a MSRP of USD$349.99 after manufacturer's mail-in rebate

Microsoft partner confirms Xbox hard
drive fate

Microsoft partner confirms Xbox hard
drive fate 03/06/2004 01:58 AM
The head of Israel-based flash memory maker M-Systems, Microsoft's new hardware partner for the Xbox, confirms that the next version of the game console will not have a hard drive.

Sony adds hard drive 'airbag' to MP3
player

Sony adds hard drive 'airbag' to MP3
player 04/06/2005 07:35 AM
Drop it and your music's safe, apparently

Thanko NOAX Hard Drive Player and
Digital Output

Thanko NOAX Hard Drive Player and
Digital Output 04/11/2005 11:02 AM

Thanko introduces a new version of their DivX/other media playing external hard drive case with the "NOAX SSV HDD PLAYER." This version retains the same DivX/VCD/MPEG-1/2 playback glory of previous models, but adds a much-needed 5.1ch coaxial digital output for those of you with systems that support such a thing.

Thanko DivX/MPEG-2 portable HD player with 5.1ch output [ITmedia]

Microsoft Launches Portable Music Player

Microsoft Launches Portable Music Player 10/30/2003 08:15 PM

iPod Player Elevates Portable Music

iPod Player Elevates Portable Music 12/14/2003 09:02 AM
By M. Scott Skinner (Arizona Daily Star via MyAppleMenu)

HP to sell portable music player based
on iPod

HP to sell portable music player based
on iPod 01/08/2004 08:27 PM
SiliconValley.com Jan 8 2004 8:12PM ET

Perpendicular Hard Drive Music Video

Perpendicular Hard Drive Music Video 04/11/2005 08:18 AM

OMG, it's School House Rock for hard drives!

I'm just a lonely little bit
And on my back I sit
Oh, how I long to be
Standing tall and feeling free
We need expanded membership
But that would make us flip
And meet an end that's too abrupt
Because our data's corrupt

We missed this last week, but if you can watch this with a straight face, full with the knowledge that it's produced by Hitachi, there might be something seriously wrong with you. Especially when the bits start singing "Get Perpendicular!" Either way, it's quite possibly the most accessible White Paper I've ever seen, and does a great job explaining pernpendicular data storage as a way to counteract the super-paramagnetic effect. IBM would have never done something this cool.

Get Perpendicular (Flash Movie) [HitachiGST via DAPrevie w]
Perpendicular Bits First Discussed [Gizmodo]

Hefty hard drive means more music

Hefty hard drive means more music 06/03/2004 06:46 AM
Portable music and media players could get a boost from Toshiba's higher capacity hard drive.

Sony Unveils Hard Drive Based VAIO for
Music, Video

Sony Unveils Hard Drive Based VAIO for
Music, Video 05/12/2004 02:25 PM

Test Drive | Here's help finding things
on car drive or hard drive

Test Drive | Here's help finding things
on car drive or hard drive 12/25/2003 04:27 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 25 2003 3:36AM ET

""The iBox has a built in hard drive
meaning it can be used as a network's
hub for homes or offices which would
like to share photos, music, or other
files. Not only does it act as a hub
which can connect wirelessly or by
Ethernet, it also calls upon its..."

""The iBox has a built in hard drive
meaning it can be used as a network's
hub for homes or offices which would
like to share photos, music, or other
files. Not only does it act as a hub
which can connect wirelessly or by
Ethernet, it also calls upon its..." 01/04/2004 03:53 AM

JVC's Mystery Hard Drive Camcorders
Revealed: They're Hard Drive Camcorders

JVC's Mystery Hard Drive Camcorders
Revealed: They're Hard Drive Camcorders 09/14/2004 11:18 AM

Oops, I almost forgot about these new cameras announced from JVC - the ones they've been hyping up to no end as their big "mystery product." Basically, they're camcorders with hard drives in them - a 4GB microdrive, to be exact. They look pretty cool and everything, but they're really most interesting because they are the first consumer camcorder with a built-in hard drive, not because they do anything particularly unique. That being said, I fully support this idea, and think most consumer recording technology should move to hard drives as soon as possible (I'll be waiting until you can get something with a bigger hard drive than 4GB for less than $1,500, though).

Both models (the GZ-MC100 and the GZ-MC200) can record up to 9Mbps in MPEG2, though, which is DVD quality.

Read - Press Release (Japanese) [VictorJP via SorobanGeeks]< /p>

David "SD8957" Chait has a less cynical take on the new camcorders, along with more stats and pictures.
Read - JVC Intros Everio Digital Camera with 4GB Microdrive [Chait]

With a complete computer system,
including the hard drive, processor and
DVD drive, the iMac G5 is only about

With a complete computer system,
including the hard drive, processor and
DVD drive, the iMac G5 is only about 09/02/2004 05:47 AM
Xinhua News Agency Sep 2 2004 10:20AM GMT

Vosonic X'S-Drive Pro VP 300 40GB Flash
Memory Reading Hard Drive

Vosonic X'S-Drive Pro VP 300 40GB Flash
Memory Reading Hard Drive 06/30/2004 12:37 PM

The Vosonic X'S-Drive Pro VP 300 is 40GB external hard drive that is clunky, cheap-looking, has a crappy text-only integrated screen, plays MP3s, but not WMA, AAC, or OGG Vorbis, and can only read from one card from its card reader at a time. So why would any photographer want it? Because it's cheap, it does the primary job it was designed to do (act as remote backup for memory cards), and can accept as many additional 2.5-inch laptop hard drives as you want to swap into it, meaning that all other things aside, you can purchase this single $335 drive and continue to upgrade it for only the price of additional hard drives.
Read - Hard disk: X'S-Drive Pro VP 300 [BIOS]

Console Drive makes hard drive removable
or external

Console Drive makes hard drive removable
or external 06/04/2004 03:52 PM
Addonics Technologies announced on Friday the release of its Console Drive, which turns a standard 3.5-inch hard drive into either aremovable internal hard drive cartridge or an external hard drive thatconnects to your Mac via USB 2.0 or 1.1, FireWire, SCSI or a PCMCIA slot,depending on the model you choose. Internally, the Console Drive can connectto a Power Mac's Serial ATA slot. In addition, the Console Drive acceptsAddonics' series of Pocket CD, DVD, CD-RW and DVD+/-R/RW drives, all ofwhich are Mac compatible.

Good Morning Rumor: Xbox Redesign?

Good Morning Rumor: Xbox Redesign? 04/12/2004 07:25 AM
JOEL JOHNSON -- Good morning, friends. Let's start the day right, with wholly speculative rumor: I was at a concert for the band Linkin Park at the Meteora World tour about a month ago. After the show I went outside to meet Linkin Park and the opening band Story of...

Rumor Today: Taiwan's Asustek Wins Order
For Apple's iPod Mini Player (With
Flash)

Rumor Today: Taiwan's Asustek Wins Order
For Apple's iPod Mini Player (With
Flash) 12/27/2004 07:13 PM

AFX News Limited: "With the flash memory-based device, Apple is apparently seeking to make further forays into the Asian Pacific market, Economic Daily News said.

Xbox 2 Announced As Portable System

Xbox 2 Announced As Portable System 04/01/2005 01:33 PM
http://www.activewin.com/afd/xboxpsp_thumb.jpg

Final Availability of Windows Media
Player 10 Brings More Music and More
Choices to Music Fans

Final Availability of Windows Media
Player 10 Brings More Music and More
Choices to Music Fans 09/02/2004 12:49 AM
Microsoft Corp. today announced the final version of Windows Media® Player 10 will be available for download at 6 a.m. PDT on Sept. 2, 2004. The new player is designed to make it faster and easier for consumers to discover, download, play and transport their digital media, and includes the first built-in Digital Media Mall, which enables consumers to browse and acquire music and video from a broad number of online stores. The Digital Media Mall includes access in the United States to CinemaNow Inc., Musicmatch Inc., MusicNow LLC, Napster LLC, Wal-Mart Music Downloads and MSN® Music, a preview of which will be made available tomorrow. Windows Media Player 10 also enables consumers to transfer their music to more than 70 portable devices and automatically sync their entire media library -- music, video, recorded TV and pictures -- to new Windows Mobile (TM) -based Portable Media Centers, which Microsoft announced will be available tomorrow at retail.

More Portable Player Competition

More Portable Player Competition 10/29/2003 12:12 AM
Financial Times reports that Microsoft will be moving into the portable music/video scene with its new Portable Media Center software. The software...

A portable DVD player from Motorola?

A portable DVD player from Motorola? 06/02/2004 11:09 PM
Engadget Jun 3 2004 3:53AM GMT

Portable Media Player

Portable Media Player 04/26/2004 01:58 AM
New Details: Samsung Yepp YH-999 Portable Media Center.

New Details: Samsung Yepp YH-999 Portable Media Center

 Category: Portable Media Players - April 25, 2004 

By Alexander Grundner

The Samsung Yepp YH-999 Portable Media Center (PMC) will start shipping to North America this July. This is great news for people (myself included) who have been waiting to get their hands on the slickest of all the pre-production PMCs. We also found out (via some press material) that the Yepp YH-999 is the first PMC that is capable of receiving both standard TV broadcast signals and the future Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) signal (F.Y.I. Korea is upgrading to DMB in the second half of 2004).

Specifications:
400 Mhz PXA 225 CPU
3.5" TFT Color LCD - 320 x 240
Windows Media Video playback up to 700Kbps
20GB (1.8" HDD)
USB 2.0
Rechargeable Li-Ion Battery
Composite video output port (for TV playback)
Dimensions - 3.8" x 4.2" x 0.8"
Weight - 7.9 ounces

Media Formats:
MP3, WMA, WMV, JPEG [eHomeUpgrade]

Toshiba's new "portable" DVD player

Toshiba's new "portable" DVD player 01/22/2004 12:57 PM
A new wall-mountable combination DVD player/15-inch LCD television from Toshiba that, with the addition of an optional battery pack, can double as a portable...

mPack 800 Portable Video Player

mPack 800 Portable Video Player 12/24/2004 12:16 PM

Another day, another portable media player. This mPack P800 is of hearty, Taiwanese stock, with a heavy-lifting video compressor that will save video at resolutions even higher than its native 320 by 240 pixel screen. That's handy for playing back the videos on a better quality screen, after either copying them off the device or playing them via its video out. It supports a variety of formats (including OGG Vorbis and Xvid) and comes in 40GB or 80GB models. If the screen isn't a total travesty, it'll be a contender—if it makes it stateside.

Product Page [mPack via PVP4 U]

Looking for a good portable DVD player
for travel

Looking for a good portable DVD player
for travel 05/11/2004 02:07 AM

Well, I'll be heading to Japan for a few weeks later in the month (I'm setting up some business meetings from May 26-29) and I'm looking for a good, relatively inexpensive portable DVD player for the trip. I'm really not an expert at this stuff, but I figured that some of you folks out there would be experts and could give me some recommendations on DVD players and reputable merchants. Here's my requirements:

1) Must be portable and have decent battery life (or an extra battery)
2) Must have a built-in screen
3) Must have a headphone jack
4) Should have speakers
5) Should be able to play multiregion DVDs (stuff I buy in Japan) as well as US DVDs
6) Should be able to plug it into a regular TV (NTSC) and display DVDs that way

I'd like to spend less that $500 on it, hopefully less than $300. Would totally appreciate some suggestions from you gadget mavens out there. I promise to post my review of the unit I purchase!

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