Thomson's portable wizardry RCA Lyra RD2780 - Brief Article

Japan, Inc., March, 2003

The RD2780 combines an audio player with a video player and funky screen, making it the ultimate in portable entertainment machines. Possibly. With a two-and-a-half inch, 20-gig hard disk and a 3.5-inch TFT LCD screen, the "RCA Lyra Audio Video Jukebox" can be hooked up to a PC or television--acting as a hard disk in the former case and a VCR in the latter. How cool is that?! You can squeeze up to 80 hours of TV or whatever else on the player, listen to MP3 and MP3Pro files, watch WMA clips and, if you're feeling particularly boring, show your mates your latest JPEG digipix of your holiday in Whistler. It'll take an incredible 100,000 images, so you can "entertain" them for, literally, millennia. The RD2780 has video and USB 2.0 connections and a Compact Flash slot. Priced at $399.99. To be released in Japan in June.

More info: www.thomson.net