[mythtv-users] OT:Portable Media Player

[Brian Wood]

James Pifer wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 16:22 -0400, Dan Wilga wrote:
>> At 10:17 AM -0400 5/1/07, James Pifer wrote:
>>> We occasionally go on road trips so I've been looking for something that
>>> would allow me to take along my kids mythvideos and recordings and be
>>> able to play them on other monitors, like a TV in a minivan or at
>>> grandma's house. I found the following device.
>> Its probably overkill for what you intend to do, but personally I 
>> just use my Mac laptop. I have MySQL and MythFrontend running on it 
>> and copy programs over to it before heading out on the road.
> 
> Maybe overkill, but buying a car adapter for my laptop (running Linux)
> is pretty expensive. Since I don't need a car adapter the money could be
> used toward something like a media player. 
> 
> Besides, while staying at our destination, I would not want my laptop
> being used like a TV. 

Depending on the age of the kids you might want to consider using the
device I used when I commuted to work by train:

Very low power consumption, unlimited resolution, auto stop,
fast-forward and rewind, almost infinite subject material,
multi-language capability, random access, no DRM, very low cost (free).

You can find a large number of these devices at your local library.