The MTV-S10, Toshiba's handheld digital TV receiver/personal video player
In a welcome departure of form factor from the tablet-style design of most personal video players, Toshiba has introduced a new player in Japan called the MTV-S10 that sports a built-in digital TV receiver. It's not your standard TV, though – you can actually pick up satellite transmissions with this bad boy. We'd gush about being able to carry around DirecTV in your pocket (well, maybe your bag), but satellite TV is a different beast in Japan so we'll just perish that thought right now. Anyway, you can use it to record both TV and audio, saving everything to SD flash memory cards (you can squeeze about two hours and twenty minutes onto a 512MB card) and there is support for playback of standard MPEG-4. We're also pretty sure that in this case "MTV" stands for "Mobile Television", not "Music Television", but we can see the product marketing now... (Fade to dream sequence... images of Carson Daly appears holding the MTV-S10... Dear Lord, make it stop!)