WATCH DVD – WITHOUT THE DISCS
A pocket-sized video player that will allow people to watch movies on the move without the need to carry a portable DVD player is being launched by consumer electronics firm Goodmans this month. The GPDR1 will cost around £200, and uses MPEG-4 compression to record around two hours of material onto a 256-megabyte memory card.
The best bit is that the device can record not only from a TV but also from VCRs or DVD players. This is because Goodmans has decided not to incorporate the copy-protection circuitry that is normally built into video recording…
