Talk:VDrive series

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Dang Joe, it's like you're reading my mind once again. Or rather I'm reading yours it seems. What a great concept.

I've been searching for this specific type device for the last 6 mos. Closest I've found is the Lacie silver screen . That hard drive seemed too small [80 gig] for me to pull the trigger on it for video. I'd be looking for at least 200gb if the storage was hard wired like this.

A solution for me may be your MPEG-4 recorder/player with multiple external storage devices(and therefore infinitely expandable, mobile large-capacity storage). I can't tell if yours allows recording directly to an external drive via the usb port or if that's just for putting to comps/pdas. Really, I dunno yet, I'm working out what I want and keeping an eye on available gear to use or mod to do my bidding.

Nice work!

John Olson

BTW, I threw in my hat for testing, but I'll take that up with those fine folks.

[edit] some more pictures

i took a few pictures of the vdrive but cant find a place where i should post them (and plus, i found out image uploading is disabled again), so if anyone wants to see a few more shots of this device i have 3 pictures at http://sorune.com/vdrive

-Kevin (noiz)

[edit] great fun

I saw this and told my wife that is what I want for christmas! The manual needs a lot of work. I figured out everthing by reading the manual and then trial and error. The information on using the USB cable for power versus the wall adapter needs some detail.

I wanted portable storage and decided a USB key with 2GB was not going to cut it. When I saw this device could play video I thought perfect! I finally have a way of travelling and bringing along some videos.

It has the most common connections: VGA and composite! S-video, component video, HDMI would be a nice extra but I don't need them.

I have been trying to setup a computer in my living room for playing downloaded content and it isn't finished 1 year later. It requires alot of work to take an old computer and make it quiet.

This little device is very quiet!

A year ago I got a recording of the new Battle Star Galactica show. I told myself I was only going to watch it on my television. So I couldn't watch it until I had the computer up and running in the living room. Well that was a year ago and I just watched it the other day using my new video hard drive. (The computer isn't working yet). Very happy to spend and evening watching with this little device.

I tried copying my Spiderman DVD onto the hard drive but it didn't play. I was hoping I wouldn't have to transcode my movies in order to drop them onto this hard drive. Just copy and go!

When we travel I plan on grabbing my computers LCD monitor and plugging this little unit into it and watching movies.

I have a laptop that is too slow to play movies and I didn't like the portable dvd players because they were too small and required me to carry around my DVDs. We thought about buying a new laptop but it just isn't worth it. We don't use it enough. But I can always use another LCD dispay!

I look forward to bringing my 19inch LCD with us and enjoy a movie or two.

What I like: The size! Don't make it any bigger! It fits in the same camera case with my PDA VGA and composite. between VGA and composite I can always play a movie with whatever diplay is available. The wall adapter. It is small and light.

Improvements to be made: Ability to turn off macrovision Widescreen support (Hint: that will be the next version I purchase) Play all copied DVDs (such as Spiderman) Larger hard drives Support more video formats Having to plug in two USB connections is fraught with risk. (You tell me how risky I don't know) This thing gets hot! A this sheet of aluminum on top of the ESS chip would help with my concerns. Please do not glue it on (I hate that)

Improvements I made: I put a label on the USB cable saying plug into the vDrive last. I also put a label on the drive with which video formats are supported.

Questions: The digital audio connector has 4 connections. Two are used for digital audio. What are the the other two for? Where can I get updated firmware from? How to access the hidden menus (are there any?)

--Mkerr 14:55, 13 Jan 2006 (CST)