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Re: SanDisk kills off TakeTV and Fanfare

Shanee Ben-Zur — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:55:54 -0000

Yup, I bought this as a birthday gift for a friend. It's a cool concept, but there were definitely some hardware/software shortcomings. It actually works surprisingly well on a Mac, and is cheaper than other solutions. But still, I can't say I'm completely surprised. . .

Re: SanDisk kills off TakeTV and Fanfare

Steve O'Hear, editor — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:43:21 -0000

@ Alan

Interesting inside view. I didn't know about the planned deals with TV manufacturers. Shame it never happened.

Re: SanDisk kills off TakeTV and Fanfare

Alan Abbey — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:11:26 -0000

I worked on an early version of this product and still have - and use - a pre-Alpha version at home. It easily lets me watch downloaded TV on my big screen, sted the mac monitor. What you didn't mention was that SanDisk had hoped to cut deals with TV manufacturers to get their USB slot built in. That would have avoided a lot of the kludginess and extra steps. That apparently never happened. Too bad! I will continue to use my raw device - held together by black electrical tape and showing all of its interior circuitry, as the devices you talk about are hard to find and use where I live.

RIP USBTV (the original name) AKA TakeTV