Iomega's 500GB ScreenPlay HD multimedia drive touts HDMI

As the multimedia hard drive market continues to quietly swell in the shadows, Iomega is making sure it keeps pace with the competition by giving its long-standing ScreenPlay HD a few attractive extras. The unit has certainly come a long ways since its 60GB days, now packing a full half-terabyte of space, an HDMI port and component / composite connections to boot. Furthermore, the drive understands WAV, WMA, MPEG-1/2/4, MP3, OGG, AC3, AVI, DivX, XviD and JPEG file formats, upconverts SD content to 720p / 1080i and even comes bundled with a remote to keep your hindquarters firmly planted. Not too shabby for $218.45, but just make sure you've got a place laid out to hide this thing from straying eyes.

[Via EverythingUSB]

[GLOBETRAHTER Posted Apr 9th 2008 2:03PM]

Still no .MKV?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2008 2:38PM]

i know, it would be great to have something support mkv.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2008 5:32PM]

With all of the HDTVs out there now that take in 1080p, why are there so few peripherals that output 1080p? Sure, it's twice the bandwidth, but I have no desire to send a still image using a 1080i signal (at 60Hz, bad flicker).

[twister Posted Apr 9th 2008 5:31PM]

Does anyone know then if this will store HD movies from sources like Dish?

[dj496 Posted Apr 9th 2008 8:49PM]

Still no FLAC? Or HDMI audio?