Hot on the heels of MediaGear's
HD2GO is yet another photo viewer / PMP, but with 40GB or 80GB hard drive options, the Picture Porter Elite is more akin to Epson's
P-4000 line of capcious convergence devices. Manufactured by Digital Foci, the USB 2.0-enabled PPE-360 features a 3.6-inch screen (only QVGA, though -- Epson gives you VGA on its models), line-in recording, PictBridge printing support, and video out for displaying your pics and vids on a regular TV. Supported memory card formats include Compact Flash I / II, MicroDrive, SD / MMC, and Memory Stick (xD, miniSD, and MS Duo cards work with an adapter), while the compatible file types include JPEG, TIFF, GIF, and RAW (image), MP3, WMA, AAC, and WAV (audio), and MPEG-1/4, AVI, MOV, and WMV9 (video). The Picture Porter Elite will begin shipping on the 7th, starting at $450.
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posted Aug 1st 2006 11:25AM
For $450, I'd expect something that would not let my memory cards stick out like that.
If the price drops on products like this, I'd probably get one. I collect music in the old order fashion (records, tapes, CD's), and to be able to see the txt list (wish it had pdf support) of my collection, a picture of the record, and even have a few of the mp3's to listen to as well... well... that would be handy. Would make "the great music hunt" days more easy and enjoyable. I'll probably wait until the magnetic/flash type memory based devices come out with more storage, and in a smaller form factor to boot!
For $450, you could just get yourself another whole digital camera and review your photos on there, right? Sheesh. It's another product in search of a market.
Poopmaster wrote:
"For $450, you could just get yourself another whole digital camera and review your photos on there, right? Sheesh. It's another product in search of a market."
I guess comments like these that reflect lack of understanding are what happen when you've spent too much time thinking and talking about poop. (Nice name, nice site, btw).
Do you even understand this product? When your memory card is full, you place it in this device and unload your photos from your memory card onto the device's HDD, effectively freeing up the space on the memory card so you can place it back into your camera and continue snapping photos.
Devices like these are much more effective solutions both in terms of practicality and cost than buying a dozen or dozens of memory cards, which is exactly what you'd have to do to match the capacity of this device's HDD.
And with 40-80 GB of HDD capacity, you'd be able to unload the photos on your memory card repeatedly - it's portability beats dragging a bulky laptop around with you everywhere which is not practical.
The ability to view the photos on the built-in screen is an added bonus with these devices, and who wants to view photos on a tiny camera screen when they can see them on larger screen like this? You'd be surprised - an extra diagonal inch or inch and a half of screen real estate makes a big difference.
My God what a bunch of whinney babies! All of you should thank "Z" for having to explain what this divice is, and what it does.
This is the same device as the Vosonic 8360 and a few other devices. The guts are built by one company and These companies slap a different skin on it. BTW, the Vosonic is much cheaper than the digital foci.
When you are in the Himalayas or the mountains of Burma there isnt a place to download your pictures or burn a cd, so you can take more. Obviously the person that wrote doesnt understand what a great gadget this is to have on the road not to mention that you dont need to lug around a laptop. Great idea.
One feature i was really concerned about was if the device can let me zoom in and rotate my RAW images. i know that epson P-4000 can't. i emailed Digital Foci and they confirmed (their customer service was quick - replied within a few hours) that the Elite can! This is a major plus for me!