SanDisk announces Sansa TakeTV, Fanfare video download service
Sansa TakeTV
- 4GB and 8GB sizes, $100 and $150 respectively
- Supports DivX (including Home Theater profile), XVID, and MPEG-4
- Up to 720 x 576 resolution
- On sale immediately
- Intended for use in downloading shows from one's computer to the TakeTV (which is then physically moved to the TV)
- Launching with content from CBS, Jaman, Showtime, Smithsonian Networks, The Weather Channel and TV Guide Broadband, including shows such as CSI, Survivor China, Dexter, and Sleeper Cell
- Video downloads will be both ad-supported (free) and paid (not sure how much yet), depending on the wishes of the content creators
- Fanfare video will also be playable on Sansa portable media devices
- Yes, it's DRMed, and yes, it's proprietary: TrustedFlash, developed by SanDisk
- Launching in beta today, officially launching in 2008
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Peripherals, Portable Video, Storage
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mushrooshi @ Oct 22nd 2007 3:20AM
They BETTER offer Naruto, Bleach, and Death Note.
Anonymous @ Oct 22nd 2007 1:25PM
Weeaboo.
bigazzknocks @ Oct 22nd 2007 4:39AM
Kind of a worthless product, eh?
bombastinator @ Oct 22nd 2007 4:57AM
Not finding any easy descriptions of fanfare anywhere. Why do I think it's going to turn out to be yet another proprietary DRM stuffed piece of All-ur-bas3-r-bel0ng-2-us peon-ware.
quanta67 @ Oct 22nd 2007 5:26AM
F*@K DRM!
slutsdigme @ Oct 22nd 2007 6:39AM
it's only proprietary if you use the fanfare service...it supports divx(avi), xvid, and mp4 through drag and drop. i really don't see why people here are complaining. i for one, think this will be a great product to have for sharing movies and such with ease of portibility and not having to burn through discs. DO WANT!
Samantha @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:29AM
I fail to see how this is better than my $50 upconverting DVD player with USB port...
Mark @ Oct 22nd 2007 4:19PM
Yeah seriously. Some of the DVD players can even handle huge USB drives. Also, how is this better than an XBMC.
riggs @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:49AM
modded XboX ftw!
Lonnie McClure @ Oct 24th 2007 9:23PM
While I love my XBMC, devices like this have one advantage: Joe Average Consumer can buy one off the shelf.
Gary J. Rhine @ Oct 22nd 2007 8:52AM
Does the remote have fast forward for porn?
tn @ Oct 22nd 2007 10:18AM
id glady pay $150 added to any 500GB,750GB,1TB seagate external hard drive
but for 8 I dont think so
it would be nice to be able to plug any external hard drive into any tv
why can't they do this? If they can make the above device so small, why cant they just intergrate into external hardrives
well i guess theres always next year
JohnTitor @ Oct 22nd 2007 1:28PM
try a MediaGate MG35
tn @ Oct 22nd 2007 3:28PM
those type of products are 300+ add your own hard drive another 200-300
so 500-600 bucks
not worth it
but 150 on top of the price of an external hard drive is
at least to me
and this product shows it can be made for less than 150 now they just have to integrate it into external hard drives not this 8gb crap
William Frantz @ Oct 26th 2007 4:56PM
Samantha is exactly right. TakeTV is more expensive and lower quality than a DivX certified DVD player with a USB port. Look at the Philips DVP5982 (Circuit City $59). Add a 500 Gig USB drive like the Beyond Micro BM500MD3U28M (eCost $94). Same price as the 8 GB TakeTV but you get HDMI, 60x more storage, and a DVD player to boot! Also much cheaper than XBox or MediaGate.
bru @ Nov 28th 2007 5:09PM
Apparently the only trouble is that the Philips DVP5982 only plays pictures and music and the Beyond Micro BM500MD3U28M drive is much larger and not flash. Eight GB of flash for ~$140 plus an integrated Divx player, remote, etc., isn't too bad.