SanDisk Sansa View

SanDisk is announcing their new Sansa View at this year's CES, their first official entrant into the portable media player space, and a doozy at that. No surprise, it's a flash-based device with 8GB of storage for watching movies on its capacious 4-inch screen. In addition to that 8GB, though, it's also got a full SDHC slot for popping in another 8, 16, 32GB and beyond in a drive-free (read: battery efficient) form factor. In addition to an integrated speaker, Li-polymer battery, PlaysForSure support, pre-loaded content, and AV-out up to 1080i, users can expect 10 hours of music and 4 hours of video in its 3 x 4.8 x 0.66-inch (78.5 x 123 x 16.9mm) body. We don't yet know what other codecs this device will support (we expect it'll do all the regulars), and it'll run you $300 in Q1 of this year.

[chase @ Jan 8th 2007 2:39PM]

shitty battery life for a flash-based device... hard drive based stuff has better than that... look at the big-screen version of the gigabeat.

they'll have to do better than that to get hardcore converts.

[KRiS..! @ Jan 8th 2007 2:33PM]

looks cool :) Is the screen resolution announced?

[mooo @ Jan 8th 2007 2:54PM]

If they are forward looking and support h264 and xvid/divx, I just might pick one up.

[steve @ Jan 8th 2007 3:28PM]

hopefully it wont just support MJPEG like the e200

[Michael @ Jan 8th 2007 4:35PM]

Finally a player that supports higher than 480i output

[Ben @ Jan 8th 2007 7:16PM]

Agreed. DivX and I'm so there. It could easily replace my XBox1 Mediacenter.

[Brian @ Jan 8th 2007 3:43PM]

If it supports UMS, I'm in for one!

[Mandarkzilla @ Jan 8th 2007 8:17PM]

I wish it had more HDD space, but it's a sansa, so I will get it.

[qwert @ Jan 8th 2007 4:25PM]

looks nice.
now it just needs to be able to do a bit more than just let you view movies and listen to music, and dont be as bug ridden than the previous sansas.

[Reg Muffet @ Jan 8th 2007 6:53PM]

Resolution?

Is it the same as the PSP? 480 x 272

[Sky @ Apr 7th 2007 10:59PM]

Sansa View, or Vision W. Interested to hear what the View will sound like. I hope the Signal To Noise Ratio is more than the e200 series. Does anybody know the weight difference between the two? The Creative Vision W sounds great and the video looks very sharp. Just a little on the heavy side for my taste. If the Sansa sounds as good I will most likely go for it. I'm sure the video will be as good, maybe even better.