databits I remember owning one of those VideoNow units (the very model shown here in the first part of the video, but silver). It was actually a good quality machine. My grandparents have VideoNow Color discs they don't use (and they're still mint condition too). Do you have a unit to play them back on?
I had a video now, but I didn’t hear about tv now until a bit ago so I missed out on it, but why after watching this video, I get the feeling, I really didn’t miss out on anything at all?
Fun fact, this device is actually a striped down toy called the VuGo. It was a kind of mp4 player with the added feature of transferring video to and from a computer. The VuGo logo is under that TVNow decal and that blanking plug on the right hides a USB port!
@FennecTECH: Before Android there was no low cost way to have portable computer function so video now was basically a low quality version of a DVD player or dvix and alkaline was really the only way to power a video now because the rechargable technology was expensive and not very efficient.
"My kids LOVE it!! Especially on the go and car rides. (And one is a pre-teen, and the other a teen!) " - Amazon review from January 10, 2016. I feel bad for her kids.
Panthera Tigris I did the same thing to get my CZcams uploads on my phone so that I could show people at work. This was several years before "CZcams" and "phone" were ever used in the same sentence.
DelilahThePig CZcams came out around 2005 anyway. It wasn't nearly as popular back then, so obviously these devices, shown here, would be more popular.
This is crazy, I remember getting my hands on one of these when i was a kid. "..like every kid wants to hook up their dvr through video and audio connections.." well I did haha. I loved it.
I used to have that thing and it was labeled as Vugo. That was back when I was 12. It was the unique device to have to record your shows into there like I remember recording Camp Lazlo and anime from Anime Selects on Comcast on Demand (we didn't have a DVR built into the Comcast receiver). That only only lasted like almost 2 months and I got rid of it. That thing was an DVR alternative for people who can't afford to upgrade to DVR (DVR wasn't mainstream back then.) Right now, we can use our HDMI capture cards and record shows off our receivers and converter boxes.
Man! So glad to see a review on this. I had the VuGo when I was a kid in '06. Didn't realize there was another version. Anyway idk if anyone else did this, but I was a fucking loser and figured out that I could record audio from my CD player and Video from my portable DVD player onto the VuGo at the same time. So I took old Naruto DVDs I had from a store that sold illegal anime DVDs and made AMVs (anime music videos) by starting and stopping the music and clips. I didn't really have a computer which is why I did it. Brings back memories.
This thing was really cheap. also you could put practically any movie/TV show you wanted on it. I had one and It was really cool (back then at least). the only thing that sucked was the batteries...
I had one of these when I was little. I literally begged my parents for it for Christmas (thanks to my gullibleness for marketing back then). I never fully got it to work properly, and was bummed when I couldn't play it on the PC. BTW, I remember this device being called the "VuGo", now the "TVNow", must have been a late season brand changes.
The main menu almost reminded me of a Bootleg PSP console, but instead of playing video games it can only play music and recordings off TV kids wanted to watch on, even though it was released in 2007. The PSP was released in March 24, 2005.
Despite the waste of batteries and crappy quality, it's nostalgic. I had the Color (purple) and XP versions. I like watching stuff on there, like where SpongeBob becomes a star after watching a commercial and Squidward quits his job. 2004 and 2005 were really nostalgic years to me.
And now to get a HDMI to RCA adapter plus male to female connector and a power converter and now you can watch blu-ray movies on the go now because why not
now many young kids have smartphones! heck this was before most adults had smartphones! interesting to see what portable entertainment was like not that so so long ago....
Is the youtube video stabilization turned on? Can you turn it off? It's really only meant for outdoor use. The warbling effect is disturbing when used in up close situations.
This tvv format looks like the raw video without a container, I've stumbled upon this once grabbing a video from cctv and I got it working fiddling with vlc's settings
kroplaaaa all the old LCD games. Tiger was at one point, at the bleeding edge of the LCD games, they started dieing when they didn't switch to newer technology early enough.
that is pippi longstocking animated show that's on the cartoon if it had much higher quality it would really really rock and rule but in a way I think they did with the ps vita the model my neighbor has does all this stuff but id want one of these too cause back in the time I wanted to get one myself looks really cool too I think it was meant more for the analog signals hence the pixellating quality definitely love the video this looks like a hidden treasure to enjoy.
I, as a kid, really knew how to connect the game console and video player, so I had a lot of entertainment. It looked strange to me that other kids my age just could not make the logic of that ... Well, later I realised that I probably looked strange to them too. Now I am an electrical and automation technician ...
@databits --- Do you think a product like this still has a market? Portable media player, able to record direct from TV, maybe play some basic games, play from SD cards, maybe have Wi-Fi, SIM, TV/radio antenna? Seems good for road trips and places without poor signal.
Since you didn't mention it, I'm not sure if you know, but the TV-Now is a rebadged version of another product called the VuGo. The VuGo seems like a much cooler unit because it has conversion software for your pc that would let you convert videos you already had for the unit. But aside from the usb and conversion software being blocked from the VideoNow, they're both basically identical.
My friend and me always wanted to record our split-screen races of NFS from Xbox (1st Gen) back in the days, this would have been handy, if it had a passthrough...
Wow, I remember seeing the VideoNow at Target back then. I also remember thinking the technology was kind of interesting, but also thinking that the resolution of the display was so bad. It seems like it had to be something like 160x120 at 15fps or something.
a long time ago i remember someone made a "kids" camcorder that used regular cassettes tapes, think they needed to be metal. have you ever come across that unit? also was wondering what the screen resolution on that was, it doesn't even look like 320x240, maybe half that.
databits There's one on EBay for $56 right now. I know a while back someone was modding them for composite output so that you could carry around a better quality recorder and still get the signature slow scan picture. The problem is nowadays Sony doesn't even make a standalone DV deck. Recording to audio cassette is probably not a good idea because the head wears so quick from the tape running at high speed.
Wonder what would happen if you attempted to upload one of those files to CZcams. Of course you would need something in the public domain or your own video, but I bet that YT could process it. Would be neat to see if it can.
This is a question for databits. Is the TV Now's display at least slightly clear, decent looking? Is the device worth purchasing? How is the sound? Databits...you're great, and I love the sound of your voice. also, you have a wonderful sense of humor.
I actually had the idea of a kids portable DVR but it's more of a pocket pc clone I call hand-driod and has this Long rang wireless internet that parents pay a monthly bill for limited/unlimited use that is also a cellphone. I was gonna get a patent but these Google people stole the prototype.
I had a device similar to this but for audio. You plugged it into your CD player or radio and could record onto internal memory. It was orange and shaped similarly to an egg. Does anyone remember this thing?
Thing has a usb port blocked off. Broke the USB port trying to get to it. Wonder if possible to solder a new one on it ? If a pc would even detect it..
Well, back in 2006 my Camera was only 2.3MPX and two fixed focus positions (a cheap crap from when they started to make them affordable) and it was so poor that take 40 shots to get a decent on. At this time, poor quality was not a big concern compared to the new advantages of "digital freedom". Also, as an item for kids, pretending to be a protable game console ... probably the quality was "good enough". But the concept is nosense. Its is hard to think a kid hocking this AV cables to the Sat receiver, or Setp top box. Most likely dadys work . I would stick to the idea of a cheap console with built in game with SD expansion, probably would have added a crappy point and shot camera feature as well and music player MP3. More sense to me. Why you suspect this is under Linux. You made me curious.
I had every single one of these stupid toys back in the day. My dad worked for a company that sold toys and when stuff got discontinued he could take them home.
Get Media Coder off Sourceforge and let it analyze the file to see if it recognizes the format. You might have to get an older version until it tells you anything useful if the recent versions don't understand the files. Or I would google the TVV format and see if anyone else has figured it out.
the website www.filext.com would be a good place to start, it knows a huge amount of file extensions, and which programs they belong to. Edit: Or not - i just went there myself and it had no info on this file type.
12:00 I use the Nasa spacescapes theme for my windows laptop too lol. Id be interested to know the quality of the audio recording, like is it stereo and in what bitrate?
Stopping@2:41, I'm compelled to tell of my experience with this device: Bought@Walmart Midnight Sale for $25, I found the video appalling and the audio-recording oddly noisy & lackluster. Using the included patch-cord as directed for my audio-only recordings, the results sounded just plain awful considering how I sourced them through line-level outputs. Trying a manner of splitting the headphone output from the source, and connecting the green plug to one side of it of it & a headset for monitoring to the other, I was able to adjust the level via the head-unit's volume control and got improved results. However, that damned odd noise that also was present with whatever videos I recorded was still persistent! Not to mention how the damned thing would eat AAA-batteries when not powered by the AC-adapter. If I felt I had a choice at the time, I'd have held-off buying this "pile" and waited until I had a DVD-recorder, along with a proper laptop & a decent tablet computer, and simply gone through the complex & somewhat difficult--but more satisfying--process of transferring programs from DVD to an SD-card or the tablet's RAM. Thank-goodness things have advanced considerably since then!
I'd rather watch a Gameboy Advance video cartridge over this. The real problem with it is the screen, if it was Gameboy Advance or DS quality, this might not have been too bad (for the time) to watch cartoons on but live action, forget about it, it's too hard to see.
Ack that LCD screen is terrible looks like the same one used in the videonow XP. I am looking in to getting something like this. I found one on amazon and it looks pretty good. better than this one. The only way id get this is either someone gives it to me or it's $2 or less at a thrift store. I have 512MB cards. I wonder what macrovision would do to this thing if it would record from macrovision VHS or DVDs. Would be nice if this had firmware you could change and get rid of that proprietary TVV video format. I hope the one I'm eying on amazon doesn't have proprietary video formats.
What would you say the resolution of this device is? It looks to me less than 320 x 240. And what's with the weird checkerboard arrangement of the pixels?
James Rickards I later bought this (the one under the name "VuGo"), and I received it today. I cannot do anything with the device. If I'm not mistaken, you have to register the device to be able to do anything whatsoever with it. Not only can I not put any video, photo, or music files onto it from the computer, but I can't even record video from an external video device (tv). I have Windows 10, and the previous operating system that the device is compatible with is Windows XP. I put in the installation cd and installed the device's VuGo program. When I clicked onto the icon to open it, though, it wouldn't open and immediately there popped up a strange error-type message. Can anyone here please help me. If so, I'd be extremely appreciative. Thank you so much.
It connects through USB, right? What you need is a Virtual Machine with USB pass-through. VirtualBox and VMWare are two options. You install Windows XP on that and it will run inside a window on your computer. Another option would be an old computer running XP.
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The screen looks like watching TV through the door of a microwave oven.
Excellent comparison!
Ahh that 1/1,000th "retina display".
Good times...
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databits I remember owning one of those VideoNow units (the very model shown here in the first part of the video, but silver). It was actually a good quality machine. My grandparents have VideoNow Color discs they don't use (and they're still mint condition too). Do you have a unit to play them back on?
I had a video now, but I didn’t hear about tv now until a bit ago so I missed out on it, but why after watching this video, I get the feeling, I really didn’t miss out on anything at all?
I used to have the tv now and recorded almost every Pucca episode and watched it every night before going to sleep.
Cool! My friend naty watches pucca too!
And i watch pucca too
Its not just for girls its for boys too
I love Pucca, remember watching every episode on Jetix/Toon Disney.
Fun fact, this device is actually a striped down toy called the VuGo. It was a kind of mp4 player with the added feature of transferring video to and from a computer. The VuGo logo is under that TVNow decal and that blanking plug on the right hides a USB port!
BenneLuke yeah I had this too and noticed that the first day I had it
holy shit. i just looked this up and you’re totally right. that is so incredibly funny.
I had a TV now as a kid it was actualyl bad ass to have back in the day but it drank batteries like my dad smoked cigarettes
In an era before pornhub this thing was worth it's weight in holographic Pokemon cards
🤣🤣🤣
@FennecTECH: Before Android there was no low cost way to have portable computer function so video now was basically a low quality version of a DVD player or dvix and alkaline was really the only way to power a video now because the rechargable technology was expensive and not very efficient.
@@diceroll2843 Best part about this was that it could record from an AV out. TV now was the shit! I had episodes of mythubsters on it.
"My kids LOVE it!! Especially on the go and car rides. (And one is a pre-teen, and the other a teen!) "
- Amazon review from January 10, 2016.
I feel bad for her kids.
Haha, A 50 dollar android phone would surely be a much better option. That video quality can only cause headaches.
+Wabbit I've had a $20 tracphone that had a lot better video quality. This is from 2006 though and shouldn't really be compared
Back in 2006 I put, just for fun, a 176×144 "A Night To Remember" to my Sony Ericsson Z800i and it was way better than even this piece of misery :)
Panthera Tigris I did the same thing to get my CZcams uploads on my phone so that I could show people at work. This was several years before "CZcams" and "phone" were ever used in the same sentence.
DelilahThePig CZcams came out around 2005 anyway. It wasn't nearly as popular back then, so obviously these devices, shown here, would be more popular.
This is crazy, I remember getting my hands on one of these when i was a kid. "..like every kid wants to hook up their dvr through video and audio connections.." well I did haha. I loved it.
3:06 Wow you really can't see JOHN CENA !
he wasn't kidding when he said you couldn't see him
I had this as a kid. This brought back so many memories man!!
I used to have that thing and it was labeled as Vugo. That was back when I was 12. It was the unique device to have to record your shows into there like I remember recording Camp Lazlo and anime from Anime Selects on Comcast on Demand (we didn't have a DVR built into the Comcast receiver). That only only lasted like almost 2 months and I got rid of it.
That thing was an DVR alternative for people who can't afford to upgrade to DVR (DVR wasn't mainstream back then.)
Right now, we can use our HDMI capture cards and record shows off our receivers and converter boxes.
Man! So glad to see a review on this. I had the VuGo when I was a kid in '06. Didn't realize there was another version.
Anyway idk if anyone else did this, but I was a fucking loser and figured out that I could record audio from my CD player and Video from my portable DVD player onto the VuGo at the same time.
So I took old Naruto DVDs I had from a store that sold illegal anime DVDs and made AMVs (anime music videos) by starting and stopping the music and clips.
I didn't really have a computer which is why I did it. Brings back memories.
It was pretty mind blowing to us as kids in early 2000. We didn’t really have anything like this. Remember there were no iPhones or iPads lol
bought one of those really cheap on clearance...played with it like once and now it sits in a box somewhere... I was in my 30's at the time🙄😁
This is actually pretty impressive. Haven't seen anything able to do something like this before.
One guy already made this comment but he was absolutely correct, it looks like watching TV through microwave door with that mesh screen affect
this is from 2006? thats about when the psp came out. why would anyone want this
Market research probably sucked hard
It was $25.
This thing was really cheap. also you could put practically any movie/TV show you wanted on it. I had one and It was really cool (back then at least). the only thing that sucked was the batteries...
because the psp had shitty games that caused macro furry fandoms
Your cable connection color mix and matching is driving my OCD crazy!! :-)
I loved this thing as a kid. I'm surprised other people remember it
I had one of these when I was little. I literally begged my parents for it for Christmas (thanks to my gullibleness for marketing back then). I never fully got it to work properly, and was bummed when I couldn't play it on the PC.
BTW, I remember this device being called the "VuGo", now the "TVNow", must have been a late season brand changes.
Yes William, I've heard that it had a few incarnations.
The main menu almost reminded me of a Bootleg PSP console, but instead of playing video games it can only play music and recordings off TV kids wanted to watch on, even though it was released in 2007. The PSP was released in March 24, 2005.
Likely the .TVV files don't work on computers because of copyright/piracy issues.
Despite the waste of batteries and crappy quality, it's nostalgic. I had the Color (purple) and XP versions. I like watching stuff on there, like where SpongeBob becomes a star after watching a commercial and Squidward quits his job. 2004 and 2005 were really nostalgic years to me.
And now to get a HDMI to RCA adapter plus male to female connector and a power converter and now you can watch blu-ray movies on the go now because why not
now many young kids have smartphones! heck this was before most adults had smartphones! interesting to see what portable entertainment was like not that so so long ago....
I vaguely remember this. I really wanted one as a kid.
I had one of those as a kid. I recorded Pirates of the Carribean zCurse of the Black Pearl on it
Is the youtube video stabilization turned on? Can you turn it off? It's really only meant for outdoor use. The warbling effect is disturbing when used in up close situations.
The .tvv files appear to be a varient of the mp4 format. If you change the extension over, it might play on the PC.
Minor League Gaming That would be interesting for someone to test out.
2:40 DUDE That show was my childhood!!!
can you send me the .TVV files? i wanna see what ffmpeg thinks of them
I actually bought a videonow player because of your video, now I'm tempted to buy one of these too, haha
Nice!! Haha!
Cool story Hasbro.
dude your the best for posting this i had all of these tv now my fav
I had the video now color, but during that time this and the psp were honestly the next step before the smartphone
This tvv format looks like the raw video without a container, I've stumbled upon this once grabbing a video from cctv and I got it working fiddling with vlc's settings
I remember buying one of these for like $25 bucks. The quality was not good, in the least... This was probably the most bootleg PMP I've ever owned.
I wonder whether Tiger Electronics actually made at least once a product that wasn't a cheap imitation of something that is already on the market.
kroplaaaa all the old LCD games. Tiger was at one point, at the bleeding edge of the LCD games, they started dieing when they didn't switch to newer technology early enough.
The cartoon is called Pippi Longstocking.
No lie I had one and when I got it to work I felt like a genius.
A final note: I too tried recording from a video-tape source (VHS) and got similar results... Guess it just can't handle phase-shifts.
My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
data bits the video now and the TV now was made by actually Tiger Electronics Hasbro distributed it
Awesome!
I wouldn't mind having one of those if it had WiFi. LoL
that is pippi longstocking animated show that's on the cartoon if it had much higher quality it would really really rock and rule but in a way I think they did with the ps vita the model my neighbor has does all this stuff but id want one of these too cause back in the time I wanted to get one myself looks really cool too I think it was meant more for the analog signals hence the pixellating quality definitely love the video this looks like a hidden treasure to enjoy.
I, as a kid, really knew how to connect the game console and video player, so I had a lot of entertainment. It looked strange to me that other kids my age just could not make the logic of that ... Well, later I realised that I probably looked strange to them too. Now I am an electrical and automation technician ...
@databits the sizes for tiger videonow PVD disc is the same as gamecube disc
@databits --- Do you think a product like this still has a market?
Portable media player, able to record direct from TV, maybe play some basic games, play from SD cards, maybe have Wi-Fi, SIM, TV/radio antenna?
Seems good for road trips and places without poor signal.
Who made that lovely crochet piece?
Since you didn't mention it, I'm not sure if you know, but the TV-Now is a rebadged version of another product called the VuGo. The VuGo seems like a much cooler unit because it has conversion software for your pc that would let you convert videos you already had for the unit. But aside from the usb and conversion software being blocked from the VideoNow, they're both basically identical.
My friend and me always wanted to record our split-screen races of NFS from Xbox (1st Gen) back in the days, this would have been handy, if it had a passthrough...
That's a fine, fine doily
Wonder how many 2006/2007 lets play videos were recorded on one of these
Wow, I remember seeing the VideoNow at Target back then. I also remember thinking the technology was kind of interesting, but also thinking that the resolution of the display was so bad. It seems like it had to be something like 160x120 at 15fps or something.
It's so bad its just...bad.
databits Eh, it was something for kids to mess around with, though the technology didn’t quite age well.
It doesn't look like Linux, it looks like a Chinese Famicom bootleg, with those VGA fonts and stuff.
:)
a long time ago i remember someone made a "kids" camcorder that used regular cassettes tapes, think they needed to be metal. have you ever come across that unit? also was wondering what the screen resolution on that was, it doesn't even look like 320x240, maybe half that.
I've not come across a Fisher-Price PXL-2000, no. Hoping to some day!
databits There's one on EBay for $56 right now. I know a while back someone was modding them for composite output so that you could carry around a better quality recorder and still get the signature slow scan picture. The problem is nowadays Sony doesn't even make a standalone DV deck. Recording to audio cassette is probably not a good idea because the head wears so quick from the tape running at high speed.
8-bit Guy reviewed one. They are incredibly expensive to buy second hand.
You know the resolution is low when you can't read what channel your on! Seems to be 75x75 resolution display.
Ngl, i have that exact converter box lol
My brother got that for christmas in 2006
2:40 Remember Qubo
I remember the this toy. I had a lot of sht and this is one of them
Be honest, how many of you who had this as a kid used it to secretly record/watch episodes of south park and family guy?
Wonder what would happen if you attempted to upload one of those files to CZcams. Of course you would need something in the public domain or your own video, but I bet that YT could process it. Would be neat to see if it can.
This is a question for databits. Is the TV Now's display at least slightly clear, decent looking? Is the device worth purchasing? How is the sound? Databits...you're great, and I love the sound of your voice. also, you have a wonderful sense of humor.
Hey James: the display is not decent looking at all. The sound is okay. Thanks for your compliments!
When the guy talked about the features I noticed he didn't mention the USB outlet next to the DC power out let for the power
Are there so much home shopping channels ?
We have a ton of them over the air here.
Cool I want one
I see Pippi Longstocking.
Impressive 1 and a half hours on 256 mb
I actually had the idea of a kids portable DVR but it's more of a pocket pc clone I call hand-driod and has this Long rang wireless internet that parents pay a monthly bill for limited/unlimited use that is also a cellphone. I was gonna get a patent but these Google people stole the prototype.
If you put a movie in an SD Card and put the SD card Would you be blessed to watch it
I had a device similar to this but for audio. You plugged it into your CD player or radio and could record onto internal memory. It was orange and shaped similarly to an egg. Does anyone remember this thing?
I not sure what it's called but I had one. Think I got it from target
@@marquiswilkerson9294 it had an auxiliary plug that flipped out on the side. And I think it had some sort of click wheel
@@marquiswilkerson9294 I found it. Hasbro Play it Now
Where on earth did they find a display that bad? I mean we had the game boy SP at this time.
$25
Thing has a usb port blocked off. Broke the USB port trying to get to it. Wonder if possible to solder a new one on it ? If a pc would even detect it..
I have one of these.
Well, back in 2006 my Camera was only 2.3MPX and two fixed focus positions (a cheap crap from when they started to make them affordable) and it was so poor that take 40 shots to get a decent on. At this time, poor quality was not a big concern compared to the new advantages of "digital freedom". Also, as an item for kids, pretending to be a protable game console ... probably the quality was "good enough". But the concept is nosense. Its is hard to think a kid hocking this AV cables to the Sat receiver, or Setp top box. Most likely dadys work . I would stick to the idea of a cheap console with built in game with SD expansion, probably would have added a crappy point and shot camera feature as well and music player MP3. More sense to me. Why you suspect this is under Linux. You made me curious.
I had that exact video now the blue one
I had every single one of these stupid toys back in the day. My dad worked for a company that sold toys and when stuff got discontinued he could take them home.
I can count the pixels
Yes, there are so few of them!
Twelve Mabye thirteen
Get Media Coder off Sourceforge and let it analyze the file to see if it recognizes the format. You might have to get an older version until it tells you anything useful if the recent versions don't understand the files. Or I would google the TVV format and see if anyone else has figured it out.
the website www.filext.com would be a good place to start, it knows a huge amount of file extensions, and which programs they belong to.
Edit: Or not - i just went there myself and it had no info on this file type.
It's a modified mpeg-4 file. Chance is it would work fine on a PC if the extension was changed to mp4
12:00 I use the Nasa spacescapes theme for my windows laptop too lol.
Id be interested to know the quality of the audio recording, like is it stereo and in what bitrate?
Stopping@2:41, I'm compelled to tell of my experience with this device:
Bought@Walmart Midnight Sale for $25, I found the video appalling and the audio-recording oddly noisy & lackluster. Using the included patch-cord as directed for my audio-only recordings, the results sounded just plain awful considering how I sourced them through line-level outputs. Trying a manner of splitting the headphone output from the source, and connecting the green plug to one side of it of it & a headset for monitoring to the other, I was able to adjust the level via the head-unit's volume control and got improved results. However, that damned odd noise that also was present with whatever videos I recorded was still persistent! Not to mention how the damned thing would eat AAA-batteries when not powered by the AC-adapter.
If I felt I had a choice at the time, I'd have held-off buying this "pile" and waited until I had a DVD-recorder, along with a proper laptop & a decent tablet computer, and simply gone through the complex & somewhat difficult--but more satisfying--process of transferring programs from DVD to an SD-card or the tablet's RAM. Thank-goodness things have advanced considerably since then!
Any video converter might convert that video to a Watchable format on pc. Otherwise someone would have created a converter.
OMG... What is that, like 120x90 resolution at 6 FPS video on a 160i display?
There's much better technology now, but these were pretty cool for their time because there wasn't anything like them before.
I'd rather watch a Gameboy Advance video cartridge over this. The real problem with it is the screen, if it was Gameboy Advance or DS quality, this might not have been too bad (for the time) to watch cartoons on but live action, forget about it, it's too hard to see.
1:12 this looks like the game boy advance SD
isn't that pippy longstockings?
Horrifying? I don't think the picture is that bad in my opinion.
I remember making my mom pay $75 for the colored one
Reminds me of the gba video player
lol that has better video quality than this
You mean the cartridges ? I have on. The quality blows
Try ffplay, also upload some sample files for us to mess with.
I'll trade you my 55" 4K tv for it
Ack that LCD screen is terrible looks like the same one used in the videonow XP.
I am looking in to getting something like this. I found one on amazon and it looks pretty good. better than this one. The only way id get this is either someone gives it to me or it's $2 or less at a thrift store. I have 512MB cards.
I wonder what macrovision would do to this thing if it would record from macrovision VHS or DVDs. Would be nice if this had firmware you could change and get rid of that proprietary TVV video format. I hope the one I'm eying on amazon doesn't have proprietary video formats.
what a picture quality brr a cheap smartphone does it better this days
What would you say the resolution of this device is? It looks to me less than 320 x 240. And what's with the weird checkerboard arrangement of the pixels?
it looks like an early attempt at the pentile arrangement that samsung uses in their new phones.
I have two versions of them
Hey there databits if you are 12 years old you can record anime show into tvnow
in glorious 50 pixel resolution and 6 fps. maybe not even.
James Rickards
I later bought this (the one under the name "VuGo"), and I received it today. I cannot do anything with the device. If I'm not mistaken, you have to register the device to be able to do anything whatsoever with it. Not only can I not put any video, photo, or music files onto it from the computer, but I can't even record video from an external video device (tv). I have Windows 10, and the previous operating system that the device is compatible with is Windows XP. I put in the installation cd and installed the device's VuGo program. When I clicked onto the icon to open it, though, it wouldn't open and immediately there popped up a strange error-type message.
Can anyone here please help me. If so, I'd be extremely appreciative. Thank you so much.
It connects through USB, right? What you need is a Virtual Machine with USB pass-through. VirtualBox and VMWare are two options. You install Windows XP on that and it will run inside a window on your computer. Another option would be an old computer running XP.
Horrifying picture quality> LOL
That's not 'Anne of Green Gables' - it's 'Pippi Longstocking'
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