ZVUE

The HandHeld ZVUE portable video player is an interesting device. It’s inexpensive ($99) and plays videos, MP3 files and can display JPEG photos. It’s aimed at teenagers so the appeal is mostly as a novelty but now that MP3 players are relatively inexpensive, portable video players are clearly next. Of course, video requires a lot more storage than music but the usage model is different as well. Except for music videos, perhaps, it’s unlikely that you’d want to carry around a huge video collection. The ability to quickly transfer video content to a device or card will be key.