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

Great, just what I needed

[amembrane]

How about getting some decent programs on TV before any more money is spent on the technology? Is there anything (besides maybe The Simpsons) on broadcast TV worth watching? Except for Adult Swim, and some of the channels like TLC, TechTV, Animal Planet, I can't find anything to hold my interest. Wireless web provides me much more entertainment.

Memory stick interface

[binaryDigit]

Hmm, it looks like Sony is slowly, very slowly, starting to release some of the toys that they promised when they first released the memory stick interface. IIRC they were touting the ability to add functionality like tuners and radios way back then. But we've only really seen memory. Also don't forget about the Clie's, this would be a really cool addition to them as well.

Speaking of Clie, how about this, you add one of these tuners to the Clie and voila, you have a portable PVR. Of course you couldn't record too much, but if they increased the memory enough, you might be able to record that 30min show that you are missing because of that meeting or class or whatever.

Just a picture, not a real article

[ayeco]

Here is the "article", all the text on the linked pagee, it's just an image's description:

Take a look at a this little fellow here :D

They say that this would turn the Sony Ericsson P800 into a TV! I'd love to see that on my cell phone :D

I got this picture from a friend with no further details... is there anyone that knows more???

Doesn't look like any real info, let alone any factual evidence that this is more than just a concept.

bah....

[m00by]

call me when the little bugger can do cable... broadcast tv...this would only be useful for the simpsons!!! =D or perhaps a base station that does CATV, and it could receive those signals on a low power unlicensed frequency....ah, the merging of tv and x10, at last, a match made in my the dark and twisted recesses of my mind.... bwah hah hah hah!!!! =D

nice toy

[John_Renne]

Of course I see the geekism of watching TV on a device this small and portable but I don't think the world is waiting for it. For years I've been very sceptical about video on small devices. Why do people keep on buying bigger and bigger TV's? They want to experience the movie. On a small device this is harder.

USB TV tuner

[Musashi Miyamoto]

What would be awesome is to have a USB TV tuner that I can plug into my TIVO!! One tuner is just not enough!

I wish sony would just quit this business with the memory stick. Proprietary interfaces just stink. They are almost guaranteed to become obsolete in 5 years.

Wowee wow wow

[stratjakt]

Sega Game Gear had a TV Tuner years ago, and so did the nomad.

As did GameXPress (portable TG16).

There's a tuner for the GBA, and one for GBC, IIRC.

Why is it so difficult or fantastic to add one to a PDA?

It hardly seems worth it to me, unless they can shrink down a DirecTV dish or it comes with a huge spool of coax cable. Free to air TV is slowly being driven out of existence.

HDTV (digital signals) will put the final nail in it's coffin, when the slightly-fuzzy-but-watchable analog channel turns into a skipping jerky unwatchable slideshow. I think we all recognize the difference between a weak analog signal and a weak digital one.