Monday, April 2, 2007
Plextor Launches USB HDTV Receiver
Posted by Jeremy Charette in "HARDWARE" @ 03:00 PM
"Plextor unveiled a new mini digital HDTV receiver on Wednesday that the company says will transform a user's laptop into a wireless personal video recorder. According to the digital media manufacturer, the PX-HDTV500U can be ordered now and will take the form of a stick-sized USB device that customers can use to watch, pause, and record high-definition TV on most Windows-based laptops—all without a subscription fees or recurring charges."
What most consumers won't realize when they buy this product is that they're going to need an exceptionally powerful laptop to be able to view HD content. "For HD, the receiver will mandate a Pentium 4, 3.0-GHz or equivalent CPU, plus 512-Mbytes of RAM, and a 128 MB VGA card at the minimum." That's a pretty smokin' portable the last time I checked. I'm also curious to find out just how good (or bad) the included flat antenna is at pulling in a signal. Great idea, but I'm not sure how useful this product is really going to be.
What most consumers won't realize when they buy this product is that they're going to need an exceptionally powerful laptop to be able to view HD content. "For HD, the receiver will mandate a Pentium 4, 3.0-GHz or equivalent CPU, plus 512-Mbytes of RAM, and a 128 MB VGA card at the minimum." That's a pretty smokin' portable the last time I checked. I'm also curious to find out just how good (or bad) the included flat antenna is at pulling in a signal. Great idea, but I'm not sure how useful this product is really going to be.
