Tuesday, October 23, 2007

SanDisk Gadget Puts Web Video on TV

If you want to watch important things like models falling through runways or track the California wildfires on your TV and don't want to deal with a wireless network, then SanDisk has a removable hard drive for you.

SanDisk is now selling a $100 device that plugs into a USB port and can transfer playback on a TV through an AV port. Rather than partner with an existing movie download site, SanDisk has started its own called Fanfare.

While SanDisk's solution is likely simpler than setting up a wireless network and you won't have to worry about streaming video playback performance, it's not a long term solution. Much of the best web video is available via stream only, and you may have some problems displaying videos downloaded from sites such as CinemaNow or Movielink that may need to be connected to the Internet and have their own media players.

There's money to be made in transferring web video to the big screen. I'm still waiting for Cisco, Sling Media, TiVo or even Google to stand up and streamline web video viewing on TV, but this at least this a simple solution for the tech averse.

By John Gartner at 09:30 AM | Comments (0)

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