Video feature: Toshiba's Gigabeat S

One of the fav products around CES among the ranks of the Engadget Army has definetely been Toshiba's Gigabeat S-series. On Wednesday's podcast we aired the interview with John Starkweather of Microsoft's Mobile and Embedded Devices; today you can peep the device for yourself.

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QT MPEG4, 1:28, 5.69 MB

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[Willy Wonka @ Jan 7th 2006 9:29PM]

Where's the new iPod? Apple where are you?

[Vizion @ Jan 7th 2006 9:31PM]

John seemed really amped about the new Gigabeat. It looks alright, although I'm not feeling the silver so much. The GUI on the F-series looked nicer than the new Microsoft PMC GUI. I would also like to have a black version in the 30gig capacity.

[S-M @ Jan 7th 2006 9:37PM]

More videos please! Also, it looks nice, but the issue is that Microsoft still hasn't come out with software like iTunes. That's the secret to the iPod.



Also love that you guys love J+J+J! Here's a link to an audio interview with them. It is very quirky:



http://75minutes.com/podcast/?p=37

[Mile @ Jan 7th 2006 10:34PM]

So, would you need to be running Windows Media Center to place content on it? Sorry if it's a stupid question, but I'm a Tivo guy and want to get my Tivo stuff on it (assume the DMR is stripped off).



TIA

[Raffi @ Jan 7th 2006 11:24PM]

While it looks promising, I have to say I never found the Gigabeat series to be very responsive to the touch, or is that just me? When you press a button it seems to have a 1 second delay before it responds.. That could very well be the difference between a good and bad product.

[kyle @ Jan 7th 2006 11:46PM]

miles,if it is like other PMCs, it will play movie files, as well as microsofts dvr-ms recorded tv shows. tivo files stripped of any drm should play fine on it

[JBaxt @ Jan 7th 2006 11:49PM]

Sony and Apple should come together and make the greatest product that this world has ever seen. With both of their great designs, and if they sucked Gates cock and got Plays for Sure DRM, this world would be a better place. Tu sabes

[William @ Jan 7th 2006 11:56PM]

Definitely cool to see the video interview, but you'll need to work on normalizing the audio please. My ears are bleeding slightly. :)

[werk @ Jan 8th 2006 12:56AM]

I agree with #8, ouchie.



Damn this looks so sweet. I just dropped 4 benjamins into my savings account for a 60gb one of these badboys next month...my favorite part...same form factor as the 30gb. Sexy.



Anybody want to buy a gently used black GB F20 next month?

[James @ Jan 8th 2006 3:21AM]

so many ipod killers.









Engadget video is the sh*t.

[David T @ Jan 8th 2006 7:08AM]

finally, something that isn't white! i'd buy it just for that, lol :D

[mike @ Jan 8th 2006 9:42AM]

so many ipod killers.



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right. 2 days till macworld..

[G Raph @ Jan 8th 2006 12:53PM]

What formats does it play for video? That is my biggest concern with waiting of this or getting a vision m now.

[Leo @ Jan 8th 2006 1:18PM]

Cool that there was a video review - but the camera man... sheesh... Even though we love Peter's mug... there is no need to go back an forth between the speaker and and Mr. Rojas. Be sure to stick with the speaker or, rather, stay on the device itself... who cares what the person looks like who is describing the DEVICE. I need to see the gadget pr0n!

[Nate @ Jan 8th 2006 8:41PM]

response to #4: You can copy Tivo content to the PMC using Tivo's TiVoToGo software. More info: http://www.tivo.com/4.9.19.asp



response to #5: You will find that the Toshiba PMC Gigabeat S-Series is very responsive to user input. There is no noticeable delay.



response to #13: The Gigabeat S supports only WMV. Windows Media Player will transcode other formats to play back on the PMC.

[eminem213486 @ Jan 9th 2006 10:24AM]

jeez engadget, props for the video but damn, this is engadget after all, show us the damn gadget, not the guys face the whole time, i wanted to see its automatic video tilting thing and wanted to see if it was stutter free. no audio menu was shown either, me sad....



was that a normal mini-usb plug at the bottom? yippe. that shit needs to become standard in everything, proprietary cables suck (i have an 60gig ipod w/vid) this device looks really promising and will surelly look into it and sell my ipod on ebay asap

[Salty Munky @ Jan 9th 2006 4:38PM]

Finally, a (possibly) legitimate iPod contender. Not an iPod killer cuz I'm pretty sure there's no such thing, nor will there be in the forseeable future. Way to much momentum and frankly a damn good product in the first place. But put enough corporate muscle (Micro$oft, Toshiba, MTV, etc...) around a good product, AND priced competitively to boot... there's finally some hope for serious iPod competition that sadly, I don't believe we'll get from the Creative Zen Vision:M.

[Jason @ Jan 28th 2006 1:13AM]

anyone heard if the S series will have voice recording or a FM tuner (both lacking on the F series)? Also, will it now only support WMP10 (there are many reports that the current gigaroom software for the F series sucks a$$)?

I kinda sucks that it will transcode everything into WMA's - that means unavoidable loss of quality since you're not taking the sound from the original source.
Would it really have killed MS to allow MP3 playback as well?