Sony To Ship Enhanced PSX Console/DVR Combo

bluethundr writes "The Register has posted a story indicating that Sony will ship the new PSX models on July 1 (Japan first, Europe to follow, then - eventually released to us Yanks?) following the company's move to suspend production of the original model of PlayStation 2/digital video recorder hybrid, earlier this year. Apparently: 'The new models, the DESR-5100 and DESR-7100, offer the same storage capacity - 160GB and 250GB, respectively - as their predecessors, the DESR-5000 and DESR- 7000. What's changed is the introduction of a better graphical user interface and the ability to add DVD-style menus to content copied from the unit's hard drive to a DVD-R, DVD-RW or DVD+RW disc.' Sony also appears to have added a range of extra video recording modes to maximise the amount of programming that can be stored on the PSX's hard drive."

Comments

One can hope

[nizo]

Hopefully once the PSX comes out the price of PS2 games will drop (but probably not before hell freezes over however). One can hope anyway. Or will there be no PSX-only-compatible games for quite some time?

Re:Spendy, but innovative...

[SteveXE]

I dont see how Sony is so far ahead of MS in that respect. Put a $50 mod chip and a $150 250 gig HD in your xbox and you have the same damn thing aside from the ability to burn dvd's. Plus the mod'd xbox can stream media of any type over a network to a TV or stereo, it can emulate older consoles/arcades, and it can play xbox games more value for the $ right there, if i wanna burn something that was on my xbox i could always just stream it to my PC, something the PSX cant do. Total Cost $350