ZeeVee's localcasting ZvBox gets hands-on treatment

Not that you haven't seen ZeeVee's ZvBox in the flesh before, but Dave Zatz got some hands-on time with the finalized unit. According to him, the box showed an impressive build quality though it ran "quite hot" -- likely a result of foregoing a built-in fan for a giant heatsink. He also noted that image quality was "good," though he did mention that he longed to see the ability to "selectively isolate a video window and present that content fullscreen." Anywho, feel free to read up on his initial impressions and peep the hands-on pics in the read link below.

[andrew wilson @ Jul 25th 2008 5:30PM]

i am overpowered by the amount of z's in this article!

[Logboy @ Jul 26th 2008 5:11AM]

and e's.

[Rotaryfan @ Jul 25th 2008 5:36PM]

dude! I have that lamp. oh, this is a tech blog? my bad. cool gadget that no one seems to care about. otherwise the first post wouldn't be about a lamp.

[hiko36 @ Jul 25th 2008 8:25PM]

I see your thinly veiled attempt at a first...

[Ben @ Jul 25th 2008 5:53PM]

I had to click through three articles before they stopped telling me I knew what this thing did:

"Not that you haven't seen ZeeVee's ZvBox in the flesh before..." - er, no I haven't... click

"We don't have to tell you where the goods are, but if you're new here, that read link down there is a good place to start." - ah, okay, yes, you do need to tell me because I do not know, but I'll bite... click

"As many of you know, ZeeVee is getting set to launch their $499 ZvBox (pre-order at Amazon) that essentially creates a remote PC link/experience to any TV in your home." - Okay, great! At last. Could you have just put one sentence at the start of the article saying that?

[Kamokazi @ Jul 25th 2008 6:39PM]

Of course not. Do you realize how many ad impressions AOL just got?

[BobfromVegas @ Jul 25th 2008 6:51PM]

Primero!

[Jason @ Jul 25th 2008 7:09PM]

Next time, look up the translation beforehand so that it doesn't take, uh......an hour and 21 minutes before you click to add.

[Mike @ Jul 25th 2008 7:23PM]

So basically it's one HTPC for all of your TVs to get access to instead of several. That's not a bad idea until you have multiple people wanting to do multiple things at once.

[Jason @ Jul 25th 2008 7:28PM]

$500...Hmm..how many tv tuners could I buy with that and have enough left over to replace that lamp when it gets knocked over?

[Rotaryfan @ Jul 26th 2008 12:22AM]

its a nice lamp. really.
seriously though, this product doesn't apeal to anyone, because the only people that know about it read engadget and are knowledgeable enough to put a TV tuner in one of their spare or secondary computers; all it takes then is a stable computer with an HDMI out capable video card and a big HDD. the other part of the audience for this product already has or is considering TIVO, unaware that this even exists. this thing needs a huge ad campaign to sell profitably

[Logboy @ Jul 26th 2008 5:10AM]

Expensive...

popcornhour

[Zach @ Jul 26th 2008 10:32AM]

I like lamp.

[macserv @ Jul 26th 2008 1:31PM]

Doesn't that thing just scream "cutting edge technology"?