Sony's Memory Stick TV Tuner at CeBit

ChowderGiggler writes "It seems like simply a picture, but there is a page at PocketPCMinds.com which shows a prototype Sony Memory Stick TV Tuner. This really has some cool applications especially if it gets ported to the Memory Stick Duo which is used in Smartphones like the Sony-Ericsson P800."

Comments

Re:Great, just what I needed

[Blaine Hilton]

This is what always makes me laugh when we get offers for TV service. We started with analog cable and we receive about 75 channels with basic service. Now they are offering digital cable and you have 300 some channels, and satellite companies keep calling and saying how they have 500+ channels. I know people with both digital and satellite, and they still can't find decent programming on.

More to the point.

[FreeLinux]

How about making a cell phone that works reliably MAKING PHONE CALLS before trying to get TV on a 1 inch screen? I just want to make a call dammit, I don't need games, pictures, PDA, voice recognition or TV. I just want to make a call.

Re:More to the point.

[brakk]

I agree completely. My new job gave me a phone (sanyo 4900) with every bell and whistle on it (internet, pics, sounds, voice recorder, voice recognition, calendar, games, no camera though) and all that was cool for about two weeks. Now all I use it for is making calls and it's shitty at that. Half the time when I try to make a call it just drops it with out giving any kind of error even when I have a full signal. And when I can make a call, I can barely understand what they say and they can barely understand me, and this is from the company that advertises "state-of-the-art network technologies, including the United States' first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network" and "perfect clarity". The only good thing about it is that the battery lasts about a week. My 5? year old nokia 6900 from voicestream (now t-mobil) didn't have all the extra "features" on it and the battery only lasted about a day, but it made damn good phone calls.

Wish sony would release it on SD or CF

[WARM3CH]

Wish instead of investing so much time and money to promote MemoryStick, Sony would switch to something that is more widely used like CF or SD. I like Sony products and even have a sony digital camera (that uses MS as memory) but yet I think a broader standard like CF or SD is much better for the end user. I really don't see the point when Sony insists so much to promote it's own standard when in reality it is "just another" flash memory standard... That way me, who owns a PocketPC would also buy that TVtuner but now I guess it's market is limited to that of Sony mobile phones and Palm devices.

Re:Great, just what I needed

[malia8888]

I second this comment. Television programs would add very little to my cell phone "enjoyment". The biggest improvement a cell phone could have is reception. I am very tired of having to wear a tin foil hat in order to be heard.

Further, IMHO we spend enough time watching and not enough time doing. A handheld device to enslave us for a few more minutes as spectators in life rather than participants is personally abhorrent.

Vaporware is not news.

[gurps_npc]

This is vaporware. They have been talking about it for years, and doing nothing.

If this was a pracitcal piece of tech, Handspring would have done it earlier - they were the first ones out with the enhancement slot for a commercial PDA and their slot is larger, so it would be easier to fit the tuner into the size available.