PSP Slim officially gets TV Tuner

[emuking]

it would of been better if it was built in, this is just more crap

[Cokemusic]

In the Uk it'll have to be freeview compatible considering channels 1-5 won't be availible on regular TV anymore.

[brunobelo]

If this thing works on PSP Phat (or PSPT for PSP Tijolão. Tijolão is the portuguese for "big brick"), we can put the PSP on a table and use an alternative remote control to change the channel! :-P

[shedeus]

stolen from ign

PlayStation Premiere: PSP TV
New device turns PSP into a portable television.
by Anoop Gantayat
July 17, 2007 - Sony has slowly been upping the functionality of the PSP, taking it beyond just games and movies and into, most recently, the high tech world of global positioning. But it appears that the company is just getting started.

As part of a flurry of announcements from today's PlayStation Premiere event in Tokyo, Sony Japan announced a 1Seg Tuner device for the PSP. Attach this to the PSP USB port in much the same way that you attach the GPS receiver and camera to the system now, and you'll turn the system into a portable TV that's capable of receiving digital television broadcasts.

The 1Seg Tuner will go on sale on 9/20 at a cost of 6,980 yen. It will be compatible exclusively with the new PSP-2000 redesign, so current PSP owners are out of luck.

WTF!!!???

http://psp.ign.com/articles/805/805622p1.html

[Gene]

forget this we can make a homebrew tv tuner with our gps device to capture direct tv channels or dish channels that would be a good idea

Is that possible?

[g00gy]

id love to have that. better than the tvplayer that sony released.

[ish420ism]

I just did some more esearch on the seg1 issue. Apparently,Seg 1 is a mobile terrestrial digital audio/video and data broadcasting service in Japan. Service began experimentally during 2005 and officially on April 1, 2006.

Technical information

1seg broadcasting uses H.264 video and AAC+SBR audio encapsulated in MPEG2 Transport Stream. 1seg, like ISDB-T also uses QPSK for modulation, 2/3 FEC and 1/4 guard ratio. Total bit-rate is 416 kbit/s. Maximum video resolution is 320x240 pixels, video bitrate is 220-320 kbit/s. Audio conforms to AAC+SBR profile, with bitrate of 48-64 kbit/s. Additional data broadcasting using BML (EPG, interactive services, etc) occupies the remaining 10-100 kbit/s.
Mobile reception is difficult, especially in a moving vehicle/train, as the signal quality deteriorates quickly even at speeds around 20 km/h (12 mph). This leaves the majority of the target audience for this service unable to receive it. Handheld 1seg receivers generally do not work well at all in moving cars or trains, even when held by a window because the signal drops out every few seconds. There is minimal or no reception in trains that are underground, or go inside buildings.
Info Via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1seg

Sounds discouraging. It seems the best place to watch it, is at home , why would Someone do that when you can just watch HDTV on a Big Screen.
Seems easier to hangout at your fave hangout spots with wifi access and kick up the PIMPSTREAMER, it's great, free, homebrew. And still one of the best solutions for streaming media to your psp. (Locationfreewhat???)

[gensuke]

$57 equates to about £28, although folks in the UK will probably be make to pay something like £35-£40. I wonder if a TV licence will be needed, like normal television sets?

According to the law every equipment or device able to receive a terrestrial TV signal needs to pay a license.

Even a metallic clothline connected to a coaxial cable.

Google about the tv license law in uk and probably you will end up in the website of a men that refuses to pay and that pointed out the clothline thing to the bbc...

Regards

[Psyberjock]

Not only does it not work with the older PSPs but it also runs on stupid 1seg? Sony can kiss my ass.

If I want 1seg I'll just get a new phone. With the points I have saved up at Softbank, they'd probably give me one for $5!

Oh, and that sucks about the TV licensing law in the UK. I didn't know about that. That's worse than the NHK thing here in Japan. (probably got the idea from the UK, gee thanks guys) At least with NHK if you don't pay no one does anything about it.

[Uberman]

"I hope Sony is not screwing over the first adopters of the PSP. These new gadgets better work with the original PSP."

Just count on it. They want the PSP-1000 to just go away. At least, that will be the attitude until/unless the PSP-2000 is hacked.