5 September 2006
The new device lets consumers record video to flash cards from TV, cable and satellite set-top boxes, DVD or VCR players to play back on mobile phones, PDAs, handheld game consoles, and video/music players.
The ground-breaking V-Mate is a video memory card recorder, allowing users to record video from video inputs such as over-the-air television as well as cable, satellite, DVD players, personal video recorders (PVRs) like TiVo and video cassette recorders (VCRs) onto their flash memory cards.*
Consumers can then take their memory card from the V-Mate and insert it into their mobile phone, PDA, handheld game console like the Sony PSP, video music player or notebook computer to play back their videos on the go.
"Today increasingly mobile consumer wants to be able to watch their favourite shows and videos, whenever and wherever they want," said Wes Brewer, vice president of consumer product marketing at SanDisk. "The V-Mate is an easy-to-use, affordable way for millions of people to use their mobile phones or other mobile devices to watch video content that resides primarily in the living room when they are away from home."
The SanDisk V-Mate lets users record up to 3.5 hours** of high quality video per gigabyte, using industry-standard video formats. Memory cards supported include SD, MMC, MMCplus, MMCmobile, SDHC, MiniSDHC, MicroSDHC, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Duo and Memory Stick PRO Duo.
"The SanDisk V-Mate provides consumers with a convenient way of place-shifting content from a largely stationary, living room-bound environment to a high mobile environment comprised of mobile phones, portable game consoles and even notebook PCs," said market analyst Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts.
The V-Mate measures just 5.1" x 2.6" x 0.8," so it will fit snugly next to almost any-sized television. The V-Mate, expected to be available in October.