The 1seg tuner for PSP makes us jealous of Japanese PSP owners. The tiny peripheral attaches to the top of the system, and allows users to tune into a variety of broadcast channels. The video quality at the Tokyo Game Show floor was stellar, with very minimal artifacting seen in the video. It's easy to change channels through a simple intuitive interface which overlays over the video quite nicely. A variety of video resize options can be readily accessed by bringing up the options menu with the Triangle button.
If there's a complaint we would have about the 1seg tuner, we'd say it has to be the delay that comes when switching channels. It takes a full second or so for the system to display video of the next channel. Certainly not a major hindrance, especially when considering the quality of video that's produced on such a small peripheral. Japanese Joystiq readers will want to check it out.
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9-22-2007 @ 2:18AM
Hashbrown_Hunter said...
I'm glad this is actually working. I was afraid it was going to be...well bad. But it's not, so congrats Sony.
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9-22-2007 @ 6:17AM
Peter said...
Is this a peripheral that us North American PSP owners will be able to import like the camera and the GPS unit or is it some how locked to the Japanese regional hardware?
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9-22-2007 @ 6:43AM
Chris Powell said...
Andrew, there's a small delay when changing channels on the LocationFree Player, too. I wonder if it's just a technological obstacle that hasn't had a fix yet.
While this is certainly cool, I do just fine with my LocationFree Player, and the best thing is I don't have to have a peripheral attached to my PSP to watch TV. On the downside though, I do have to be at a WiFi hotspot.
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9-22-2007 @ 8:11AM
Kspraydad said...
@Peter...1Seg isn't used in North America...so it would be useless here.
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9-22-2007 @ 10:45AM
Mike Cohen said...
Does it work on the original PSP or does it require the new model?
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9-22-2007 @ 12:06PM
Kspraydad said...
@Mike
As you can see at this link:
http://www.jp.playstation.com/support/qa-690.html
The S310 (that is the tuner) is only compatible with the PSP 2000 model.
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9-22-2007 @ 1:27PM
Alien said...
40k sold according to IGN in the first day ... not bad . Also this should work unnoficially in the EU to ...
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