Iomega's 500GB ScreenPlay HD multimedia drive touts HDMI

by Darren Murph, posted Apr 9th 2008 at 1:56PM

As the multimedia hard drive market continues to quietly swell in the shadows, Iomega is making sure it keeps pace with the competition by giving its long-standing ScreenPlay HD a few attractive extras. The unit has certainly come a long ways since its 60GB days, now packing a full half-terabyte of space, an HDMI port and component / composite connections to boot. Furthermore, the drive understands WAV, WMA, MPEG-1/2/4, MP3, OGG, AC3, AVI, DivX, XviD and JPEG file formats, upconverts SD content to 720p / 1080i and even comes bundled with a remote to keep your hindquarters firmly planted. Not too shabby for $218.45, but just make sure you've got a place laid out to hide this thing from straying eyes.

[Via EverythingUSB]

Filed under: Media streamers, Others

Tags: external hdd, ExternalHdd, hd stream, hd streamer, hd streaming, HdStream, HdStreamer, HdStreaming, iomega, media streamer, MediaStreamer, multimedia, multimedia hard drive, MultimediaHardDrive, screenplay, screenplay hd, ScreenplayHd, stream

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King @ Apr 9th 2008 2:03PM

Still no .MKV?

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jason @ Apr 9th 2008 2:38PM

i know, it would be great to have something support mkv.

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mntwister @ Apr 9th 2008 5:31PM

Does anyone know then if this will store HD movies from sources like Dish?

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adcva @ Apr 9th 2008 5:32PM

With all of the HDTVs out there now that take in 1080p, why are there so few peripherals that output 1080p? Sure, it's twice the bandwidth, but I have no desire to send a still image using a 1080i signal (at 60Hz, bad flicker).

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dj496 @ Apr 9th 2008 8:49PM

Still no FLAC? Or HDMI audio?

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