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SanDisk kills TakeTV dead

Posted by Paul Miller in BLOGROLL, MEDIA

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Here’s a sure sign of unpopularity: SanDisk stopped selling its TakeTV device, and shut down TakeTV’s Fanfare content portal, on May 15th… and nobody noticed. Originally inspiring fond sentiments with its sneakernet approach to getting videos from your computer to your PC, SanDisk’s TakeTV just never got much traction. Faced with competition from the likes of Microsoft and Apple — not to mention the oodles of networked devices that offer up more content and more convenience which have been cropping up recently — we’d be surprised if TakeTV sold enough units to fill a briefcase. Anybody out there have any fond memory’s of TakeTV’s short stint?

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