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.
posted Jan 8th 2007 2:12PM
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.
looks cool :) Is the screen resolution announced?
If they are forward looking and support h264 and xvid/divx, I just might pick one up.
hopefully it wont just support MJPEG like the e200
Finally a player that supports higher than 480i output
Agreed. DivX and I'm so there. It could easily replace my XBox1 Mediacenter.
If it supports UMS, I'm in for one!
I wish it had more HDD space, but it's a sansa, so I will get it.
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.
Resolution?
Is it the same as the PSP? 480 x 272
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.