LaCie LaCinema Rugged Portable Media Extender

LaCie understands that there are some butter fingered folks out there like yours truly, and has released its LaCinema Rugged portable media extender that is much tougher compared to the original. This time round, the beefier LaCinema Rugged even comes with HDMI support and upscaling to 1080i, a shock-resistant rubber bumper that surrounds the scratch-resistant aluminum chassis and a smaller remote control. It is sad to see VOB and component video support removed by LaCie, and we do question the wisdom in leaving out H.264 decoding that marginalizes a large segment of the population who wouldn’t mind viewing iPod-friendly content over the device. You will be able to pick from various capacities, ranging from 250GB to 500GB.