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Thursday, September 11, 2003

Forbes.com: A VCR For PDAs

PEGA-VR100K is, for lack of a better description, a VCR for Sony PDAs. It records TV shows and movies on Sony's Memory Stick flash memory devices.

But the video images aren't for general-purpose uses. They're recorded in MPEG-4 video format at a resolution of 320 pixels by 420 pixels--which just happens to be the size of the screen of a Sony Clie, its line of PDAs that run the Palm operating system, run by PalmOne's (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) subsidiary PalmSource.

Memory Stick Pro, which stores a gigabyte of data and is optimized for multimedia applications like video can store as much as four hours of video. As yet, the unit has been announced only in Japan and assigned a price that is in the neighborhood of $250, which seems strangely low

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