You know the holiday shopping season is coming up when devices from strange companies start showing up. Not strange in terms of questionable, but strange as in companies not usually associated with the device in question. Usually it means a large number of personal media players or other small gadgets like e-book readers. The latest more »

Take a look at the soon-to-be released ViewSonic MovieBook, a personal media player with a MSRP of $149.99 (which probably means around $100 street). So why talk about this media player over others? The ViewSonic MovieBook can play lots of video and audio formats at a low price. If you have a video collection that is encoded in various formats and you don’t feel like re-encoding everything, the ViewSonic MovieBook starts to look a lot more interesting.