BT for syncing wouldn't work - it maxes out at a whopping 720kb/s. But it would be cool for other stuff. I think having a portable storage device with a few GBs of capacity that could communicate with my mobile phone for display and control purposes plus audio via BT would be cool. Seems like SE announced something like this a year or so ago.

WRT video, it is happening already. The TAZ1, the various PMC devices, and the various clunky Archos contraptions are either on the market now or imminent. For me, this is the killer portable app. I played with a PMC a while back (the Samsung form factor that has been scuttled now, unfortunately) and the ability to pop that thing into a desktop cradle and sync all your TV shows from XPMC is very, very cool. Beats the heck out of yet another episode of "nobody likes raymond" on the flickery, 12" overhead monitors.

Rez is as good as many of the PTV devices on plances today. The TAZ1 has a 720p-capable widescreen LCD. That'll work for me.

Edited to add: Evidently, the TAZ1 is going to have very tight integration with TiVo, allowing programs to be sent directly from Now Playing to the TAZ1 for playback when undocked. If (and IMO it's a big "if") this thing isn't vaporware or a scam, it may turn out to be the ultimate gadget.

Unfortunately, I'd give them about a 20% chance of getting to market - they still haven't shown anything but CAD drawings, are hedgy about a ship date and specs, and right before Christmas started taking pre-order deposits with no delivery date and no refund possible until April (all with very convenient excuses). Time will tell, I guess.

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-alan in sitges, home of the new, improved, and now legendary Si-Re-Do

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