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If you’re tired of missing your favorite TV shows or never have the time to watch TV recordings or movies at home because you’re always on the go, then the SanDisk V-Mate is for you! It can record video from a TV, cable, satellite or over-the-air, set-top-box, DVD player, personal video recorder, like TiVo, or a VCR. The V-Mate memory card can then be inserted into a mobile phone, video music player, hand-held game console, or notebook computer and the video replayed. Memory cards supported include SD, MMC, MMCplus MMCmobile, SDHC, MiniSDHC, MicroSDHC, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Duo and Memory Stick PRO Duo.

• Watch whatever you want whenever and wherever you want!


• View favorite TV shows or movies during your daily commute


• Catch those late night TV shows you always miss or the latest episode of your favorite reality show during your lunch break


• Digitize your home videos


• Share favorite video content with family and friends

A remote control and TV-based graphical user interface let users control settings, record and access content. At initial set-up users select their playback device (such as a mobile phone or handheld game) to ensure the recordings are playback-compatible. It has a maximum recording resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. Recording time is approximately 3.6 hours in a mobile phone (at bit rate of 544kbps) and 1.8 hours on a notebook computer (at bit rate of 1.056kbps).

There is a mini-USB connection and cable to connect to a personal computer and it is expected in October for $129.99.

Product Page [SanDisk] Via [Techworld]

Neuros has issued a warning to owners of its MPEG-4 Recorder 2. If you’re using a Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) in conjunction with the device, Neuros advises you not to upgrade to Sony’s recently-released firmware 2.7 update. The MPEG-4 Recorder 2 records analog video straight to flash media, including Memory Stick Pro Duo cards used by the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP). It can also work with video iPods and other portable media players.

“We don’t think Sony did this on purpose, but, for now, PSPs with the upgraded firmware won’t play files recorded with the Recorder 2,” said the company in a statement e-mailed to registered users. A second result of this issue is that any files you may have recorded previously with the Recorder 2 would need to be converted to play on PSPs having the upgraded Version 2.7 firmware.”

Neuros said they’re taking the issue seriously, and are working to create a firmware upgrade for the MPEG-4 Recorder 2 to fix the problem. They’re also “trying to make Sony aware of the problem” to prevent it from happening in future PSP firmware upgrades. What’s more, Neuros plans to provide a free solution to upgrade old recordings to play on the new PSP firmware.

Read [Macworld]

This new memory card is red hot…

SanDisk introducing a 4-gigabyte Memory Stick PRO Duo Game card that can store up to 64 hours of MP3 music tracks, 20 or more hours of movies/videos/film trailers, 12 hours of game saves, or 4,000 digital still images. This should certaintly sufice for your PSP, no matter how many BitTorrent movies you have downloaded (oh we know you do it).

The 4GB card, is expected to ship this month with an MSRP of $219.99. Other capacities availalbe include 256 megabytes at $34.99, 512MB at $44.99, 1GB at $59.99 and 2GB at $109.99.

[Press Release]

SanDiskintroduced RapidGX, a high-performance Memory Stick PRO Duo Game card intended for the PSP. The company was no longer content sitting around waiting for Sony to bump-up their transfer, read, and write speeds nor force people to convert their files before popping in the memory card. The SanDisk RapidGX card comes with software that allows PSP owners to convert and transfer a host of multimedia files from a personal computer to a PSP, through a drag-and-drop interface. It also comes with SanDisk’s new MicroMate high-speed Memory Stick PRO Duo card reader.

With the reader, a PSP user can transfer data at read/write speeds of up to 15 megabytes per second, about twice the read/write speeds of the PSP when the device is hooked up directly to a computer. The reader contains a slot for the card and a USB connector that allows it to be plugged into a PC’s USB port.

The RapidGX card will initially be sold in 1 gigabyte for $84.99 this summer and then larger cards to follow.

[Press Release]