Vintage Toys: Hasbro/Tiger Kids Personal DVR TV Now!

Back in 2006 you could buy your kids their own DIgital Video Recorder. What a concept! Find out just how cool it is right here...now!

[AzusaAzunyan]

I used to have the tv now and recorded almost every Pucca episode and watched it every night before going to sleep.

[rickbuzz]

The screen looks like watching TV through the door of a microwave oven.

[BenneLuke]

Fun fact, this device is actually a striped down toy called the VuGo. It was a kind of mp4 player with the added feature of transferring video to and from a computer. The VuGo logo is under that TVNow decal and that blanking plug on the right hides a USB port!

[edgriffin]

I had this as a kid. This brought back so many memories man!!

[FennecTECH]

I had a TV now as a kid it was actualyl bad ass to have back in the day but it drank batteries like my dad smoked cigarettes

[LayneRuley]

This is crazy, I remember getting my hands on one of these when i was a kid. "..like every kid wants to hook up their dvr through video and audio connections.." well I did haha. I loved it.

[Evansmustard]

"My kids LOVE it!! Especially on the go and car rides. (And one is a pre-teen, and the other a teen!) "
- Amazon review from January 10, 2016.

I feel bad for her kids.

[DerekMcDouglas]

I used to have that thing and it was labeled as Vugo. That was back when I was 12. It was the unique device to have to record your shows into there like I remember recording Camp Lazlo and anime from Anime Selects on Comcast on Demand (we didn't have a DVR built into the Comcast receiver). That only only lasted like almost 2 months and I got rid of it.

That thing was an DVR alternative for people who can't afford to upgrade to DVR (DVR wasn't mainstream back then.)

Right now, we can use our HDMI capture cards and record shows off our receivers and converter boxes.

[fila]

3:06 Wow you really can't see JOHN CENA !

[waltermb]

Man! So glad to see a review on this. I had the VuGo when I was a kid in '06. Didn't realize there was another version.
Anyway idk if anyone else did this, but I was a fucking loser and figured out that I could record audio from my CD player and Video from my portable DVD player onto the VuGo at the same time.

So I took old Naruto DVDs I had from a store that sold illegal anime DVDs and made AMVs (anime music videos) by starting and stopping the music and clips.
I didn't really have a computer which is why I did it. Brings back memories.

[kylehazachode]

Is the youtube video stabilization turned on? Can you turn it off? It's really only meant for outdoor use. The warbling effect is disturbing when used in up close situations.

[antiWhiteism]

@databits --- Do you think a product like this still has a market?
Portable media player, able to record direct from TV, maybe play some basic games, play from SD cards, maybe have Wi-Fi, SIM, TV/radio antenna?
Seems good for road trips and places without poor signal.

[mattblatchley]

bought one of those really cheap on clearance...played with it like once and now it sits in a box somewhere... I was in my 30's at the time🙄😁

[VinnytotheK]

This is actually pretty impressive. Haven't seen anything able to do something like this before.

[DouglasWalrath]

can you send me the .TVV files? i wanna see what ffmpeg thinks of them

[postersm]

One guy already made this comment but he was absolutely correct, it looks like watching TV through microwave door with that mesh screen affect

[fphelton]

Your cable connection color mix and matching is driving my OCD crazy!! :-)

[Charlesx]

It was pretty mind blowing to us as kids in early 2000. We didn’t really have anything like this. Remember there were no iPhones or iPads lol

[IAmNotAFunguy]

Likely the .TVV files don't work on computers because of copyright/piracy issues.

[marcelfilms]

this is from 2006? thats about when the psp came out. why would anyone want this