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."

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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.

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.

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.