PSP to Recieve Television Broadcasts?

Gaming Horizons is reporting that Sony is working on an application to be used to recieve television broadcasts on laptops and, more interestingly, the PSP console via an internet connection. From the article: "The software will allow you to complete a task called "place-shifting," which is the ability to access content stored from remote locations through high-speed web links."

Comments

Re:Big deal, my little

[gl4ss]

well.. actually from what it sounds it's just playing videos that you have recorded earlier, maybe through the internet.

kinda like http://www.orb.com/ .

Re:media center portable

[xenocide2]

All its really doing is playing streamed video over the internet via its wifi link. The DS could theoretically do the same, but that's beside the point, really. What matters is whether playback will be Better, or Worse, than Realmedia. My money's on Worse, simply because they have a tendency to overstate themselves (how many polygons/sec was the ps2 supposed to push?). Certainly, if you own a PSP, this sounds exciting, but the options are either you record stuff elsewhere (like tivo or mythTV) or you get it from an official source from a content server hosted by Sony or whoever is actually doing this. The bad thing here is, its up to them, not you.

Media Center

[MBCook]

Suprise Suprise. The ability to watch TV shows on a PSP that are stored on another device by accessing them over the 'net.

That other devices wouldn't be the all in one PVR/Game machine/Blender/etc. that the PS3 (possibly only a "top end" PS3) is supposed to be would it? Use your PS3 as a PVR and watch TV on the go using your PSP?

I can see it. Will it work? Don't know, but I wouldn't be suprised if this was the reason for the technology.

As for those who say "My gamegear could do this 10+ years ago", this is NOT a TV tuner, it's the ability to watch shows off a PVR that are streamed through the 'net (so they aren't stored on the PSP). This has nothing to do with recieving broadcast TV with a TV tuner (although that would be cool on that nice little screen, especially HD content).