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Nokia Enters PVR Market

Posted by timothy on from the come-one-come-all dept.

Daaelar writes "Nokia has just recently announced their entrance into the PVR market with the realease of their Mediamaster 260 S. It apparently has PVR capabilities as well as the ability to receive small images via Bluetooth for viewing on a larger screen, i.e. your television. It also includes some built-in games, as well as a feature to record from a digital camera or camcorder."

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  1. Bluetooth mobile phone cameras by prisen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, if the pictures taken on a mobile phone didn't look bad enough..wait until they get transmitted to a 36" TV...yikes!

  2. Sounds good to me. by The+Human+Cow · · Score: 3, Funny

    As long as I can stick a flashing antenna or two on it, I'm game.

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  3. Games! Rarr. by Valar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Screw the PVR capabilities. IT PLAYS GAMES!

    Only partially kidding...

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  4. no no no by rbolkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    this was supposed to be a microsoft article. It's sco, riaa, microsoft, not sco, riaa, nokia.

  5. "My fellow Americans--" by Faust7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    With the Nokia Mediamaster 260 S, you can pause live TV, answer the door, and continue watching right from where you left off.

    Ah, the satisfaction of putting the Commander in Chief on hold.

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    1. Re:"My fellow Americans--" by mhesseltine · · Score: 4, Funny
      Ah, the satisfaction of putting the Commander in Chief on hold.

      Followed up by instant replay, for those "did he really just say what I think he said?" moments.

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    2. Re:"My fellow Americans--" by akudoi · · Score: 4, Funny

      With the Nokia Mediamaster 260 S, you can pause live TV, answer the door, and continue watching right from where you left off.

      What I want to know is how it answers the door? Thats pretty impressive!

      (And yes, I am joking...)

    3. Re:"My fellow Americans--" by pimpinmonk · · Score: 2, Funny

      How else will I be able to look up beyond-my-reach vocabulary words like "strategery" in real-time? This is a killer app, baby!

  6. From the brochure by Faust7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why not play between programs? The Nokia Mediamaster 260 S has games built-in so you and your family can play

    Man, what would my family do without those built-in games? Interact?

    Nokia classics, such as Snake, Tic-Tac-Toe, and Card Deck

    Dude! Nokia invented Tic-Tac-Toe? I have all sorts of overdue kudos to give them!

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  7. Re:The important info - how many tuners? by molarmass192 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds alot like the guts of a Tivo system. As for being weak, all the heavy lifting (encoding/decoding video) is done in hardware, not software, so you don't need a huge amount of processing power. However, that would explain the exciting selection of games including tic-tac-toe and snakes, yeehaw. I'm throwing out my PS2 as we speak!

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  8. Re:Too true by alib001 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, PVRs should be...ummmm

    The Recordomatic 9000?

    The Automatic Recording System of Entertainment?

  9. Re:I hope this is better than their firewall offer by ergo98 · · Score: 3, Funny

    My organization uses a Linksys BEFSR41 for firewalling. Works great.

  10. Haiku by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nokia what you do?
    You once made phones that are poo
    DVR is too