Getting into the Zvue

He didn't want to at first, but Mike Langberg of the San Jose Mercury News says that the Zvue, HandHeld Entertainment's new portable video player that uses memory cards rather than a hard drive, has won his grudging acceptance:

I want to dislike the Zvue, a personal video player that sells for just $149, but I can't. HandHeld Entertainment, the San Francisco company which introduced the portable device late last year, over-promised and under-delivered. There's no user manual, the online customer support site is skeletal and the company's business model looks flawed. Yet the Zvue (www.zvue.com), much to my surprise, actually does a decent job of playing back video on its 2 1/2-inch color LCD screen, and works well as an MP3 music player. At such a low price, that's remarkable.