Iomega's Screenplay Multimedia Drive
By Paul Miller 
posted October 18th 2005 6:00AM
posted October 18th 2005 6:00AM
Yeah, Iomega sure has a long and storied history (anyone remember Clik! disks? Us neither.)
It's been 25 years of good times and yet they press on. Now they're introducing their new 60GB ScreenPlay that plugs
into your TV to playback MP3s, pictures, and videos of all sorts (Mpeg 1, 2, and 4 — including DiVX). It works just
like one of those handy-dandy portable hard drives via USB 2.0, so you can put a bunch of lame old Excel files on it if
you want — no one is going to stop you. There's no support for WMA or WMV, and we'd really love something like this to
do HD, but we're a bunch of complainers anyways. For $219 these good times can be yours.
[Via PC World]
Clik!? That's still relatively new in my ungadget collection. I still have my Jaz drive with my $170 1GB cartridges. I recall dropping money on a few Jaz carts because I could no longer afford to feed $60 for a 44MB Syquest catridge.
this is actually cool. A cheaper alternative to many of the new video players coming out. And 60gb and Diva playback is always a good thing.
This, or I can go buy a generic case for less than C$80, pop in a 60GB 5400RPM drive for less than C$120. Check out this case from Bytecc
http://www.byteccusa.com/product/enclosure/25pmp.htm
Then again, the buttons on the case is useful. Worth the extra money or not?
FSM is my master
I'm fairly certain that you meant "sordid" instead of "storied". Right?
I think Iomega is more lamented and deplored than they are lauded for any of their products or practices. Can anyone say "click of death"?