Iomega's 160GB Media Xporter was designed to bring media off of PCs and onto consoles with minimal hassle and compatibility issues.
Since plenty of next-gen consoles end up connected to HDTV sets in a family’s main
TV viewing area, they hold plenty of potential as home entertainment systems. But
unless users can easily get content to them, there’s not a whole lot to show. Iomega
attempted to solve this problem on Thursday with the release of the Media Xporter
drive, an external USB drive tailored especially for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
While standard USB hard drives can be reformatted to work with either system, the
Media Xporter saves users the hassle and the potential for hardware incompatibilities
stemming from power usage, since it’s already been tested to work natively with
both. Iomega also includes software tools for converting movie files that consoles
won’t recognize, such as QuickTime, AVI and VOB files, into MPEG-4 files that they
can play.
After filling the drive up with media from a computer, users can connect the drive to
either console with a USB 2.0 “Y” cable to view photos, listen to music, and watch
videos. “A game console can run an entire media library,” said Ralf San Jose,
Iomega’s global product manager for HDD products, in a statement.
The Media Xporter drive is available immediately through Iomega for $113.95.
Die Festplatte, welche den Namen Media Export Drive trägt, hat eine
Speicherkapazität von 160 GB und wird über USB angeschlossen. Dadurch kann man
direkt vom PC auf die Festplatte Musik, Videos oder Bilder streamen, welche man
ohne Probleme abrufen kann. Mit im Lieferumfang ist auch noch eine Software, die
das Konvertieren von Filmen in das richtige Format ermöglicht.
