20 Aug
2006
20 Aug
'06
6:43 a.m.
At 02:45 AM 8/19/2006, Tim Shoppa wrote:
There have been various items sold under the
"Watchman" name over the
years, and I seem to recall some company selling a small portable videodisc
player (using a tiny disc and a completely incompatible format) in
the late 90's/early 2000's that seems to have faded into obscurity.
Was this Sony maybe? In any event at that point in time the display
technology was not CRT but some kind of LCD.
I thought he was talking about the late-80s / early-90s item
from Sony that played 8mm video tapes. About the size
of a
thick paperback book, with a 2-3 inch color LCD (then novel)
it had a TV tuner and nice in/out jacks, so it was popular
among videographers.
There are several other disc-based kid's players. One out now
is called "VideoNow". My son picked one up recently for $10
from one of his friend.
- John