Anyone check out SanDisk's new portable video player?

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SanDisk Introduces the New Sansa® TakeTV? Video Player

Finally, there?s an exceptionally easy way to move video from your PC to your TV. SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a leading provider of portable audio/video players, today announced the U.S. availability of the Sansa® TakeTV? video player, a breakthrough media player that gives consumers a smart, convenient and affordable way to move video content from their PC to the TV, where it belongs.

Using the Sansa TakeTV1 video player is as simple as using a USB flash drive: Simply drag video files to the TakeTV player, and then slip the player into its TV cradle. The cradle plugs into the standard A/V sockets of nearly every existing TV. Next, consumers are shown a simple, on-screen guide where they can quickly select the content they?ve stored on the Sansa TakeTV player, using the included remote control2.

The sleek Sansa TakeTV video player will work with new and legacy TV systems via standard AV composite inputs or S-Video. With flash memory at its core, the device is small, durable and easily portable.

Sansa TakeTV supports a variety of video formats, including DivX®, XVID and MPEG-43. The Sansa TakeTV player is DivX Certified® for Home Theater profile. The player connects to any PC via a USB connector, and works with Windows Vista, Windows XP and the latest versions of Mac and Linux.

SanDisk?s Sansa TakeTV flash memory-based player comes in a 4 gigabyte4 (GB) capacity, which holds approximately five hours of video5, and 8GB, which can hold up to ten hours of video. It is available today for MSRPs of $99.99 and $149.99 respectively.

Very intriguing! Though maybe limited in usage.

I have a modded Xbox to stream content from my PC to my HDTV, but this would be sort of neat for road warriors who want to watch downloaded movies or episodes of a television show at their hotel, at a friend's, or whatever.