Hasbro's Video Now is Now in color and is also back lit.

If you're making a portable you probably need something to watch it on. (Unless you want to guess what's happening in the game, but I wouldn't advise that) Anyway, this forum is your "Hacking a pocket TV/screen" one-stop solution. Share your experiences and knowledge here.

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Hasbro's Video Now is Now in color and is also back lit.

Post by The Zydeco King » Mon Aug 16, 2004 10:02 am

This might make for a nice video screen for hacking.
Don't know much about it because it's new, but it costs $79.00 US.
http://www.hasbro.com/videonow/

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Post by Sparkfist » Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:18 pm

If anyone knows what the accual size of the screen please tell. As far as I know the screen is the same as the old b&w ones and thats maybe 2in. at biggest.
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Post by yalborap » Mon Aug 16, 2004 8:56 pm

I knew it. The day I saw the videonow in stores, I thought to myself 'there's gonna be a color one eventually' and I was RIGHT!

Now where's that guide on how to convert shows to videonow compatible...This could be useful....

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Post by The Zydeco King » Mon Aug 16, 2004 10:11 pm

Here's a link to soft ware that will let you convert movies so they can be played on the old B/W Video now
http://sourceforge.net/projects/videothen/

and here' a link to a Video-Now converting Forum
http://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopi ... sc&start=0

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Post by az_bont » Wed Aug 18, 2004 7:51 am

Sparkfist wrote:If anyone knows what the accual size of the screen please tell. As far as I know the screen is the same as the old b&w ones and thats maybe 2in. at biggest.
It's a 3 inch screen, according to the Argos catalogue (big UK store). It list the item as having a "high resolution" screen, so I'd expect a bit of an improvement over the original 80x80 one.

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