Video Now Platinum Player

maddox · Post by **maddox** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:24 pm

Found this thingy at Tos 'R' us.

Video Now <<< german

http://www.hasbro.com/videonow/
and in english

It's from Hasbro, a portable Video Player for kid's it plays PVD (PersonalVideoDisc).

What do you think about this ?
Possible to use the screen ?

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:50 pm

Not that great of video quality, and you can't use the screen in something else easily. I'm not sure if the color disc format has been cracked yet, but the black and white format has, so you could burn your own short videos to 3" CD to play on it. If it was only $30 here in the US for a color one I might get one, but the color ones are around $50 at the places I go.

http://www.wsu.edu/~zocher/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/videothen/
http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/Ult ... 0&Session=

maddox · Post by **maddox** » Sun May 01, 2005 2:50 pm

I think this screen must have a video in, to display the data (movie) comming from the PVD. here in germany you can get them video players real cheap.

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Sun May 01, 2005 4:07 pm

It has video in, but it is probably encoded specifically for the system. I doubt the PVP uses composite, RGB, or any standard video in format.