A media player that frees you from your computer
Previewed at this year’s CES, the LYRA X3000 pocket-sized Personal Multimedia Recorder from RCA is finally available. It enables direct recording of audio and video content from multiple sources without using a computer. Using an included home theater docking base, users can pull in audio and video directly from any external source, be it TV, DVD player, CD player or camcorder. Video and audio recording can even be time shifted when using the docking base in conjunction with the device’s IR Blaster remote. When transferring video, included DivX transcoder software enables conversion of video files to DivX format for playback of any video.
Looks coo, you should test one out for us John….you got bucks now with your new show and all. 🙂 (still not cranky enough)
And how does this fit in with Hollywood’s DRM plans.
From what I can tell from viewing the website you can’t download anything from the device to your computer. That would be a deal breaker for me. I think I will stick with open source solutions for now.
So, the blurb says external use disabled by macrovision. We know how they handle copy protection, then.
Management software is DirecTVtoGo. Is it, then, compatible with Dish or any of the cable sources?
Sounds great, I Want two.
Actually I want three, I also want it to have an inbuilt digital TV tuner and wireless AV reciever for recieving cable TV or media from PC anywhere in the house or garden, oh and longer battery life of course.
To bypass copy protection…I wonder if you could copy your recorded files from device onto the removable SD card and then just transfer to your PC???
I will stop at 6 acronyms.
Another french company, http://archos.com has been making those portable Tivo machines for several years now and they are much better. Their latest has the same 4″ widescreen as the PSP and is compatible with Echostar’s DVR set-top-boxes to transfer DVB recordings onto the device, which has 100GB inside, using 480mbit/s usb2 connection with the touch of a button on the remote.
The devices that really interest me, are the ones that combine portable DVR function with PDA function, there is one called Pocket Media Assistant, and RCA Thomson also showed one at CeBIT you can see the video at http://cebitvideo.com/?p=18 . You just need to put WiMax or 3G/HSDPA in one of these and you have got a portable internet device which is pocketable thus much more practical than the 3 times bigger, more expensive and heavier Origami.
This looks to me like a scaled down Archos – it provides all the features that folks above have pointed out this one is missing including offloading of videos to SD cards. It also converts to a camcorder with optional attachment, – and the new one just released in Europe (AV700) has a 7 inch screen and even has two TV tuners…