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| Brand: SanDisk
Category: CE
Buy New: $99.99
Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 10425
Color: black
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 1 x 1 x 1
MPN: Sansa TakeTV 4GB
Model: Sansa TakeTV 4GB
UPC: 619659034771
EAN: 0619659034771
ASIN: B000XB4P8Y
Release Date: October 31, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Amazing devise for the money March 19, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Sandisk Sansa TakeTV is an amazing USBTV product.
First to clear up a few misconceptions about the device:
Sansa TakeTV accepts the following formats:
.avi
.mp4
.divx
with the following codecs:
-DivX
-XviD
It also accepts the following subtitle files:
.srt
Now that thats done, on with the review. Sansa TakeTV works with all TVs, Standard 4:3 and Widewscreen 16:9 screens and has both NTSC and PAL options.
It has a few modes to view the content with the modes are as follows:
-Original
-Letterbox
-Pan Scan
-Fill
You can fast forward your video by pressing and holding > button for a few seconds and rewinding by pressing and holding the < button. By pressing and holding the up arrow button, you begin the slow motion forward, by pressing and holding the down arrow button, you begin the slow motion rewind.
Pressing the square button once, you will stop the video with ability to resume it as well by pressing play button, if you press the square button twice, you will stop the video completely.
Pressing the "i" button you get to see how long the video is playing and how much time it left to play.
The write speed of the flash drive is very fast, so you spend less time transferring files and more time watching them. There are no drivers to install, it acts as a large flash drive in the PC.
The remote range is not very big, and the buttons have to be pressed firmly to achieve the desired function.
Simple and Amazing February 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this little guy after the first time I used him. It's an extremely simple concept... put the files on the USB, plug the dock into your TV, and BAM! You're watching pirated movies faster than Universal Studios can catch you. In all seriousness, this thing is worth the money and then some. I bought the 4GB simply because I can't watch more than that amount of TV in one sitting but if you're hardcore and enjoy sitting for more than 5 hours at a time go for the 8GB. Maybe you should invest in a thigh-master while your at it.
 Works like a charm! February 10, 2008
I love this thing. It's cool if I want to take my downloaded vids to a friends house to watch on TV. Also, I don't have a media extender in my house, so this is a cheap alternative to watch vids in another room. The Fanfare site kind of sucks. It has limited content, but the idea is pretty cool. If/When Fanfare gets better, this item could get a 5-star review. For the price and ease-of-use, you can't beat this with a stick.
 Sansa TakeTV January 28, 2008
This product is a great idea and will be fabulous when the bugs are worked out. The first one I recieved worked very well for a couple of days and then started freezing up while playing content. Then my computers began not recognizing the drive(both windows XP and Vista). Credit goes to Amazon.com for replacing it in a timely fasion. The replacement works better but will not download content from the Fanfare website, which is not all that important to me as the content is not all that great.
Good, but not great solution to bringing video content to your TV January 23, 2008
After being so frustrated with two other devices advertised to provide content to your TV via wireless connection, I threw in the towel and purchased one of these right after their release. All in all, I'm pretty happy with the device - very clear picture and easy to use. Would MUCH rather have a wireless device to stream video, but they simply do not seem ready for prime time right now. My biggest complaint is that you have to convert everything from and AVI file to a Divx compliant MP4 file. Not a huge issue for me - but I'm a geek. I would think others would have a much more difficult time with this product simply due to that one issue.
It's an extremely compact unit and I've actually been happy enough with it to have purchased a second identical unit for our vacation home. The next generation really needs to have more video formats available or it's just not going to generate a lot of interest.
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