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PSP to Recieve Television Broadcasts? 28

Posted by Zonk from the magic-teeh-to-recieve-radio-broadcasts dept.
Gaming Horizons is reporting that Sony is working on an application to be used to recieve television broadcasts on laptops and, more interestingly, the PSP console via an internet connection. From the article: "The software will allow you to complete a task called "place-shifting," which is the ability to access content stored from remote locations through high-speed web links."
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  • so what the hell is the PSP NOT going to be able to do?

    • Re:media center portable (Score:4, Interesting)

      by xenocide2 ( 231786 ) on Monday January 10, 2005 @12:52PM (#11311435) Homepage
      All its really doing is playing streamed video over the internet via its wifi link. The DS could theoretically do the same, but that's beside the point, really. What matters is whether playback will be Better, or Worse, than Realmedia. My money's on Worse, simply because they have a tendency to overstate themselves (how many polygons/sec was the ps2 supposed to push?). Certainly, if you own a PSP, this sounds exciting, but the options are either you record stuff elsewhere (like tivo or mythTV) or you get it from an official source from a content server hosted by Sony or whoever is actually doing this. The bad thing here is, its up to them, not you.
      • (how many polygons/sec was the ps2 supposed to push?).

        75 million under certain conditions, which it does under those conditions. The same conditions 3D card maufacturers use. Next question?

  • Big deal, my little (Score:5, Insightful)

    by theREALMcCoy ( 817988 ) on Monday January 10, 2005 @12:42PM (#11311330)
    brother's Game Gear could do that back in the mid 90's. Heck my GBA can do that now!
  • PSP to Recieve Television Broadcasts

    The Xbox extender [winsupersite.com] along with the Windows Media Center allows you to watch TV over wireless connections.
  • Marketing speach: "placeshifting" :) aka downloading streams from the internet and displaying them on the screen. How is this revolutionary or new?

  • TiVo 2 Go? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Hellvetica ( 170451 ) on Monday January 10, 2005 @12:51PM (#11311422) Homepage
    This is like TiVo for people without TiVo... or for people with PCs without vid capture cards.

    You know, if some service were available that allowed me to subscribe to certain shows, and download them on demand, I might consider dropping cable. (This is where somebody replies with "What, you haven't heard of _______?")
    • You know, if some service were available that allowed me to subscribe to certain shows, and download them on demand, I might consider dropping cable.

      You know, if that service existed, I might consider not pirating cable shows.
  • Sony already is trending to this with their "LocationFree TV" products; however, outside of ideal circumstances, they have tended to be very very poor performers. I would imagine that the disparity between download/upload rates on consumer connections is mostly the problem here. The idea is great, but the implementations have been fairly lackluster so far..
    • As I recall, the consensus on LocationFree TV was that it was interesting but grossly overpriced ($1500 for a 12" LCD!!). They may be using the same encoding/decoding software as LocationFree, which works passably well. If they require purchasing/using LocationFree, then this would definitely be garbage.

      More on LocationFree TV:
      http://www.engadget.com/entry/35750387361834 6 1/
      http://www.sonystyle.ca/view/LocationFreeTVLan ding /index.shtml?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=100 01&categoryId=47

  • Write I before E
    Except after C
    Or when it sounds like an A
    As in "neighbor" and "weigh"

    Yeah, I know there are better things to do than criticize article headlines [purdue.edu].

  • This is of absolutely no suprise to me. Personally anything sony says they are going to do with the psp at this point is just going to be pretty boring. Wait til after it is release and we get some seriousapps for the wifi, usb, and memory stick. Can anyone say streaming actual games?

  • Media Center (Score:4, Interesting)

    by MBCook ( 132727 ) <foobarsoft@foobarsoft.com> on Monday January 10, 2005 @01:30PM (#11311857) Homepage
    Suprise Suprise. The ability to watch TV shows on a PSP that are stored on another device by accessing them over the 'net.

    That other devices wouldn't be the all in one PVR/Game machine/Blender/etc. that the PS3 (possibly only a "top end" PS3) is supposed to be would it? Use your PS3 as a PVR and watch TV on the go using your PSP?

    I can see it. Will it work? Don't know, but I wouldn't be suprised if this was the reason for the technology.

    As for those who say "My gamegear could do this 10+ years ago", this is NOT a TV tuner, it's the ability to watch shows off a PVR that are streamed through the 'net (so they aren't stored on the PSP). This has nothing to do with recieving broadcast TV with a TV tuner (although that would be cool on that nice little screen, especially HD content).

    1. Downloaded TV episodes of choice using BitTorrent.
    2. Upload files to the PSP (see here [wooba.com] for a tutorial).
    3. Watch on train.
    4. No profit for anyone!

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