Friday, October 31, 2003
ZVUE! written up in Premiere magazine
The ZVUE! showed up on pg. 108 of the November
2003 issue of Premiere magazine. Yes, that
is Renee Zellweger on the cover. Premiere is the premiere (no pun) movie
magazine for Hollywood. The actual write-up doesn't appear online, but the
magazine is worth the purchase.
"Here, we've rounded up some of the coolest and coolest-looking
items...perfect for any kid, or the kid in you," writes Jamie Sorcher of Premiere magazine.
Listed among four other products, the ZVUE! had good old No. 1 next to it. Were
they ranking it number one? Who knows? We would like to think so...
Thursday, October 30, 2003
Multimedia Content Online and On The ZVUE!
In August, Bob Kennedy, Santa Rosa LIVE TV, produced the only video interview between Michelle Lambert, New Digital Reporter music editor, and Carl Page, chief technology officer of HandHeld Entertainment.
The size (160X132) of the image was created so that it fits the ZVUE!'s ultra-bright, full-color screen (RGB 160X240). Click on the image to launch the three-minute QuickTime interview. (NOTE: The Video requires QT 6.0)
In order for the video to play on the ZVUE!, it will have to be in the HHe Format. There needs to be a downloadable program that is on the ZVUE! SD card that binds images with video and audio assets.
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
Publishing Articles Via Cell Phones
Coming soon...an e-zine about the ZVUE! called the ZVUE! ZINE.
ZVUE! ZINE articles will be updated quickly by regional field bloggers using camera-based cell phones to supply the ZVUE! ZINE with fresh, up-to-date information. Currently, a number of companies offer innovative services for those also wanting to update their blog anytime, anywhere.
Audblog, a San Francisco based start-up, offers a web-based tool that allows Bloggers to post up to four minute long MP3 audio clips to their blogs from any phone, anytime, anywhere.
Princeton, N.J.-based Mlogs just launched a weblog for phone camera users to post photos with audio annotations and videos from their cell phones anywhere, anytime directly to their Blogger accounts.
(NOTE: Video Requires a new QuickTime Plug-in. But, it downloads in like 10 seconds and you won't have to reboot your PC.)
Both of these services will help ZVUE! ZINE regional bloggers keep the ZVUE! ZINE fresh and up to date. In addition, these multimedia articles can be downloaded and saved to an SD card in a few minutes for play on the ZVUE!. ZVUE! owners can enjoy e-zine multimedia field reports from around the world on the go and away from a tethered screen or keyboard.
audio post powered by audblog
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
ZVUE personal video player
The hand-held ZVUE! can play videos, music videos and MP3s and features an ultra-bright, 2.5-inch full-color screen that plays full-motion video and displays digital images.
Content will be available on the postage stamp-sized ZCARD! Secure Digital/MultiMediaCards (SD/MMCs) and will be priced starting at $5.99. The ZCARD! will be available in capacities ranging from 8 Megabytes (MB) to 256MBs and will offer high-quality video playback on the ZVUE! from eight minutes to more than one-and-a-half hours of uninterrupted full-motion video.
Monday, October 27, 2003
ZVUE! spotted on the street in San Francisco
http://www.livejournal.com/users/ndr/288925.html
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
ZVUE! featured in the Wall Street Journal
Journal" section Wednesday October 1, 2003.
Author Pui-Wing Tam's article featured the ZVUE! with its key feature being the
$99 price tag. "On tap for later in the month is HandHeld
Entertainment Inc.'s ZVUE!. It will be one of the smallest (about the size
of a pack of playing cards) and cheapest ($99) portable video players yet."
It also got picked up at the Tucscon Citizen. Read it here under a different
title. Getting
a handle on the new hand-helds
