LaCie’s LaCinema Rugged plays 1080p video for $350

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Obviously these type of portable hard drive/players must be doing decently in sales, since every company seems to be coming up with one…but who is buying them? For $350, you can build yourself a pretty decent HTPC, or heck, a bit more and you can buy a laptop that can just connect to your HDTV. I must be missing something about these…

 

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If money is no issue, and you’re looking to play 1080p content—alt.binaries.hdtv.h264 says hi—on your big screen TV, you really ought to look into getting a proper PC, one with one of those fancy nVidia GPU that you can use to hardware accelerate said Blu-ray rips. That being said, it looks like LaCie just came out with a stand-alone device that should play most of the HD content you “find” online. Oh, it’s called the LaCinema Rugged HD, and LaCie wants $350 for it.

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