ADS Tech's Instant Video To-Go offers up iPod / PSP video conversion on a USB stick

[wraggster]

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Sure, there's a myriad of fairly technical methods to convert DVDs, media clips, and TiVo captures to files that play nice with your iPod, PSP, or other portable video player, but ADS Tech is hoping to give us all an easy way out of transcoding every file in our ever-growing media library. Touted as the "industry's first hardware-based H.264 conversion solution for PCs," the Instant Video To-Go comes in a handy USB stick format, and houses a "hardware accelerator" that enables consumers to convert videos for handheld playback "up to five times faster than real time." The device reportedly supports MP4, MP3, AVI, WMV, MOV, RM, JPG, TIFF, and MTP, and provides a "two step procedure" for getting your videos ready for your PMP. Moreover, it can supposedly squash 100 minutes of MPEG2 / VOB into a 320 x 240 H.264 file in "approximately 20 minutes," which ain't half bad if things really work as described. Nevertheless, ADS Tech's sure-to-be-popular device will set you back just $79.95, and should be available on the web right now.

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[cal360]

Sounds quite good but I don't want to fork out $79.95 just yet

[g00gy]

so does that mean it converts video files automatically while transfering it to your psp?

[Veskgar]

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Moreover, it can supposedly squash 100 minutes of MPEG2 / VOB into a 320 x 240 H.264 file in "approximately 20 minutes," which ain't half bad if things really work as described.

The speed sounds great but I like 480x272 resolution allowed by 3.03 OE-B better.

[Nookadum]

No, the built-in MPEG2/H.264 chipset on the USB does all the work FASTER than how our software on the PC can, probably due to the ultra-fast speed of Flash memory. I would definitely buy one. Converting a DVD usually takes me 4 hours, but I've read a couple of reports saying that it now takes around less than 20 minutes.

This thing is awesome for people who convert their DVDs and other video formats to whatever other format.