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Sony Announces a Super Playstation 2, the "PSX"

Posted by michael on from the it's-all-about-the-X dept.

Doctor_No writes "Sony has announced a souped-up Playstation 2 in Japan. The machine, named the "PSX", comes with 120GB hard drive and a DVD+/-RW for recording videos and DVR features much like Sony's Cocoon. The machine will be released sometime in 2003, and come with a service that offers multimedia content such as video and music through internet connectivity. If you live in Japan, it will also come with a BS tuner; which is a Japanese Satellite Broadcast tuner. The new machine also boasts a real-time OS, USB 2.0, Memorystick slot, and a connection with Sony's Portable handheld, the "PSP". UBS Warburg has an article here, but these two Japanese sites offer better information (albeit in Japanese); Watch Impress, ZDnet Japan. Here is a rather large PDF presentation."

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  1. Some excellent quality pics of the PSX by Dot.Com.CEO · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here.

    Beautiful...

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  2. Re:RIAA/MPAA Nightmare by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 5, Informative
    Anyone foresee this problem?

    Unless Japan suddenly becomes the 51st state of the USA, no. RIAA/MPAA are American organizations. Other countries should tell them to buzz off.

  3. Re:RIAA/MPAA Nightmare by apetime · · Score: 5, Informative
    I think the RIAA and MPAA have nothing to worry about. In the Japanese article, they make clear that DRM is a main part of the design of this machine.


    Quick translation from the Watch Impress article:
    "Although the types of inputs and outputs on the PSX have not been made clear, they explained that copyright protection would be a main concern. They stated that such protection is very important, but they are aware that users want to use the machine freely, and the newest DRM technologies would be incorporated. 'We are considering including a signal in the analog output that would prevent copying.' They went on to explain that, since a consensus had yet to be reached regarding digital transmissions, that they would make it compatible with a tentative standard."

  4. Wrong by Duds · · Score: 5, Informative

    Very creative, but utterly wrong.

    It's abbreviated to PSX because the Playstation is desended from the failed Super NES CD.

    Alongside the SNES add-on, Sony were going to launch their own "SNES CD" without a cart slot which would be called "Playstation X". The product name stuck right up until the launch of the 32-bit box of tricks we now know when the X was dropped.

    But the apprev stuck.

  5. Re:RIAA/MPAA Nightmare by questionlp · · Score: 5, Informative
    Japan has their own version of the RIAA called JASRAC, who has been actively encouraging Japanese labels and distributors to use copy protection on their crippled unCD releases.

    I'm not sure if or what Japan's version of the MPAA is.