Much like Sony's
PlayStation 3, Spark's VTube clearly wasn't designed to sit nicely in-between a 7.1-channel AV receiver and a cable set-top-box. Engineered in some backwoods lab about 30 kilometers south of Shenzhen, the so-called VTube looks to be a pretty standard media player outside of its unorthodox design. The unit packs HDMI / component / composite video outputs, an Ethernet jack and a Toslink optical audio output, and those who dig internal storage can slap a 2.5-inch HDD within to keep those old
Office clips handy. Predictably, it also supports pretty much every file format known to man, and the built-in USB port ensures that you can add external storage if need be. It'll only run you around $130, but the chances of seeing this on US soil are slim.
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posted Sep 15th 2009 9:16AM
So when can we expect Vicks so file suit? Clearly the shell of their vaporizer was used here.
Please! Check your gun before the read link! :(
$130!. That's the second expensive soap i've ever seen.
I have bigger problems.....I've run out of dip for my Doritos =O
Does it exfoliate?
Mighty Mouse?
"... 30 kilometers south of Shenzhen"
Isn't that Hong Kong?
Yeah, and HK has the only "backwoods" I've ever seen anywhere near 深圳市. Southern China has long since been deforested.
ok wtf is with all this "egg" stuff, egg remotes, egg media players, egg computer, egg beaters!!!
It's ugly...they all look like overgrown tamagochis. They aren't ergonomic either, why is this the new "hot" thing?
At least it doesn't involve feet...
same annoying design que/gimmick samsung is using on their dvd players, ultimately assuring that if you buy it, you HAVE to put it on top, since you cant stack anything on top of it, ensuring its what everyone sees first.
Smart, maybe.... Annoying, Definitely.
No Thanks,
You can get a cinema cube for much less (69.99 (720P version) right now on sale, another 10 bucks for wifi support) and it plays every file format I've ever seen (even Iso support), has every output imaginable and their tech support is seriously second to none. I never really make it a point to plug a company, but they have really changed my mind that all tech companies are incompetent in the support department.
www.brite-view.com
This seems like a more expensive, less functional unit.