The flashy
gizmos that keep
popping up at this year's
Korean Electronics Show continue to impress, and next up is
dCube's media-playing extraoridinaire, the MV-8600HD. This stylish box boasts an optical drive that plays nice with a myriad of formats, including HD XviD, MPEG1/2/4, AVI, VOB, IFO, ASF, and WMV on the video side, while supporting MP3, WMA, AAC, OGG, PCM, and AC3 on the musical front. The device can output video at 1080i resolution (no word on upscaling, however), and rocks DVI, component, composite, and S-Video outputs to complement the stereo, coaxial, and optical digital audio ports. It even sports a pair of USB 2.0 ports and integrated Ethernet / WiFi, presumably for attaching external storage and making it accessible over a network. As expected, there's no skinny on pricing or availability details, but you should be able to import this
all-in-one wonder stateside real soon.
posted Oct 24th 2006 5:36PM
daddy want....*drool*
Why didn't they make component rack sized units? Looks like the beta max tape machine my dad had in 1976 for his portable 40lb camcorder.
Would have looked a lot nicer with a slot-loading drive, or at least making the tray look a bit fancier.
love it!! plays tons of stuff! wonder if a Blu-ray/HDDVD version of this will appear eventually.