Novac, SoftBank BB, and Mitsui Bussan’s new “ViVaEleca” brand is off to a very, very slow start with one of its two debut products; the “DVD Porter” portable DVD player may cost under $300 USD, but you get what you pay for.
While I can’t say much bad about the player, I can’t find much to say that’s good about it, either. All of its features are standard, such as the 5″ TFT LCD, MP3 playback, digital output, and blah.
Interestingly enough, the second product from the new company isn’t (well, doesn’t appear to be) as crappy. For around the same price as the above mentioned portable DVD player, you can instead invest in a set-top box type media player with both DVD drive and 3.5″ hard drive slot. One good feature about the “Mpeg HDGate” is the special cassette into which the hard drive is inserted. You can remove the hard drive from the player by simply sliding it out of a slot on the front, and the cassette itself has a USB 2.0 port. In other words, you don’t need to remove the case of either the player or your computer to write to the hard disk.
Still, my lazy, white ass would prefer an Ethernet connection.
Read – Product Information (DVD Porter) [ViVaEleca]
