Ever wonder would it be nice to just have rmvb, avi, mp4, and other format video files to be played in one device and it's connected to TV? No, it's not a lappy it's the new RM Media HDD Player.
For some reason, these RM Media HDD Player is rare and only exist in countries like China, Taiwan and Japan. Recently, I been to Taiwan and decided to take a cab to their tech and gadget hub called, Ba De Lu. Finding this device was indeed kinda rare, I have to ask around to get it. Finally, a lady inside a PSP shop was selling it. Each hdd player comes without hard drive, but even without hard drive, you can still plugin a usb flash drive with files to use it.
Features of the this devices as follows :-
1. Accepts USB 2.0 Input devices - yeah you can plug in external drive and usb flash drive with videos and the player can detect and read the files from it.
2. Connect to PC via USB 2.0 cable - the device itself can be connected to PC especially when you installed the 2.5 inch SATA Drive.
3. Able to read from MD, SD cards so that, pictures taken by your digital camera can be displayed here in slideshow...weee how convinient. There's a slot for it.
4. Works on PAL,HD and NTSC, provided with two series of AV cables( yeah the white, red and yellow ones) and comes with a mini remote control.
5. Some RM HDD player (slightly more expensive ones) support dual hdd IDE and SATA, the cheaper ones only support SATA. The one that I bought, can only support SATA.
6. Power cord cable supports 110 - 240 volt, you just need a new adapter for your country. Default ones is for countries like Taiwan and Japan , two small pins.
7. You can opt to purchase with the SATA drive with various size or just buy the device alone without. Last time I bought this device was 2,900 Taiwan Dollar (USD 88.00), kinda affordable :)
8. Extremely light and you can dissemble it and put it in your luggage with a black bag to cover it. Is best to discard the boxes; make the device look used and old if you are buying from overseas that is, sometimes some nasty custom will just confistacate items which are newly packed for no apparent reason.
For those whom are looking for lightweight action script 3 based preloader and preloader wrapper (a small preloader swf that loads the bigger ones). I’ve written a sample of those two in my new developer based blog in http://www.isgoodstuff.com.
You may download the script from there to use for your projects, portfolios and even commercial use but do leave some comments as where you using it when you do. I’ll be writing more samples on actionscript 3.0 and some Adobe Air application for fun from now on since, I got my wonderful Aptana IDE installed in my desktop so stay tuned.
My actionscript 3.0 preloader guide article is located here.
Just last few weeks, my system in office have an autodistributed update for Vista SP1. Little did I know of there's some driver conflict after the patch. It resulted in crcdisk.sys and the system just hangs there. Worst part is it takes forever to load the O/S now. I have to format another disk and flash the bios just in case to get system going again. Knowing that, Microsoft have pulled back all auto distribution of SP1 and XP SP3 till things stablized. Best countermeasure to prevent this happening again is :-
