Movies on your wrist for $120
The Home Theater Watch for $120 plays video as well as I’ve ever seen on a wrist-watch device based the YouTube vid I saw over at Geek 24. You store digital content on the 2 GB of internal storage and can view your photos and movies on the 120 x 120 pixel, 1.5-inch OLED screen. There’s a headphone jack for digital audio, which is also demonstrated at Geek 24. Supported audio file types include MP1, MP2, MP3 and WMA, plus JPEGs for photos. On the video side of the house, there’s included software to convert ASF, AVI, MPEG, WMV, DAT/VCD, and ASX files into a format that’s compatible with the watch. Just telling time will use the battery in two days, and you’ll severely cut battery life with digital content: 4 hours of vids or 8 hours of music will require a recharge.
Good gravy! I can barely see the movies I have on my Pocket PC now. How would anyone be able to make out anything on a 120 x 120 pixel screen? It makes sense to play mp3’s on it with a bluetooth connection, but a headphone jack on my wrist? It makes me think of that scene from “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” when the main actress walked a little too far with her headset on in the Travel Agency and was yanked back like a dog on a chain attached to its doghouse. Stretch just a little to far and you’ll either tangle yourself up in the cord or maybe your arm will snap back and you’ll end up hitting yourself. Too funny!
Gene
I have a 4GB version of this watch. Works real well. The 1.5 OLED screen is very clear and pretty bright. Not sure I would watch a full 2 hour movie on it but it does playback video very nicely. The audio is excellent through the supplied ear phones. I can leave it on my desk, off, for more than a few weeks and the battery is still fresh. You can check the time while the unit is “off”. The supplied video converter software converts video to a NXV format. It is not efficient but it has worked well fo me. I ripped a 90 min DVD then converted it with the video converter at High quality setting and 128×128 size and it took up 759MB of space on the watch. The video plays very nicely. I also converted many photos and transferred them to the watch and they look very nice on the screen. Definitely a geek toy but a fully functional one.