Movie Cowboy stores your HD media, outputs on-the-go

Move over Mvix, there's a new vaquero in town, and it goes by Movie Cowboy. Comically titled as such by manufacturer Digital Cowboy, this portable HD multimedia hard drive comes ready to accept whatever 2.5-inch SATA drive you want to toss within, and after you've loaded it up with material via the USB port, you can slam it down in the bundled cradle for big screen enjoyment. Said dock boasts stereo / coaxial digital / Toslink audio outputs along with component / composite / HDMI video outs. The media player itself supports a respectable quantity of file formats, including WMV, DivX HD, MPEG1/2/4, XviD, ISO, IFO, VOB, AAC, WMA, MP3 and OGG. Not that we really see this thing heading Stateside anytime soon, but those in Japan can pick one up in the coming weeks for ¥24,800 ($237). Shot of the rear is waiting after the jump.

[Via AkihabaraNews]

[Marc @ May 15th 2008 9:02AM]

Now if only they'd made the base station saddle-shaped and in brown leather......

[MattyG @ May 15th 2008 9:18AM]

that actually looks pretty sweet

maybe if it wasn't from such a dubious website and in £ i'd go for it

[Ziria @ May 15th 2008 9:37AM]

Looks the same as MediaGate's 250HD. Maybe just a rebranded product?

http://www.mediagateusa.com/mg250hd.html

[NHAnimator @ May 15th 2008 9:49AM]

"Shot of the rear is waiting after the jump."

Errr..... okay.

[Dan S. @ May 15th 2008 10:13AM]

If only they'd release a similar, musically-targeted product called "Bebop, Cowboy."

See you Digital Cowboy...

[a ham sandwich @ May 15th 2008 10:17AM]

awesome file format support! ISO?! NICE!

[Justy L @ May 16th 2008 6:21AM]

Does the MPEG4 support include .mp4 h.264 files such as those that play on an ipod (not the drm'd sort obviously). See lots of players that boast similar codec support as the above but have encoded plenty of stuff for my ipod which I wouldn't want to change.

[happy_penguin @ May 15th 2008 12:02PM]

Dumb name but cool device.

[Zach @ May 15th 2008 12:18PM]

Is it me or does it not support MKV?

[krymson @ May 15th 2008 2:24PM]

Yeeeeehaaaww

[DJZeratul @ May 15th 2008 1:54PM]

if it supports MKV i will buy it. Im tired of toting my damn MBP, DVI to HDMI adapter, and mini-TOSLINK to optical cable everywhere I go to play a stinkin MKV file on someone elses tv

[Ty @ May 15th 2008 4:44PM]

Amen to that.

[MiXAL @ May 16th 2008 3:57AM]

And where is ethernet/wlan connetion?