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Old 09-14-2005, 05:15 AM   #2
MrSaint
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If the price was right I am confident there could be a market for PVPs. Like you said $400-$500 sounds reasonable to me. Parks Associates published a study recently regarding mobile video according to which 12-13% of U.S. Internet users with some kind of mobile devices are interested in Video/TV on the go:

http://www.parksassociates.com/resea...ertainment.htm
http://www.clickpress.com/releases/D...051005cp.shtml

Of course even if prices would go down, the problem remains to find *legal* PVP content. PVPs usually don't carry DVD drives, so you need to transfer video material from your PC to the PVP. Most people are not willing to transcode DVDs to some other PVP-compatible format (XviD, ...) just for the sake of watching a movie on the go. Besides, the movie industry wants us to believe that transcoding (using tools like DVDDecrypter) is baaad thing to do.
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