The 1seg tuner for PSP makes us jealous of Japanese PSP owners. The tiny peripheral attaches to the top of the system, and allows users to tune into a variety of broadcast channels. The video quality at the Tokyo Game Show floor was stellar, with very minimal artifacting seen in the video. It's easy to change channels through a simple intuitive interface which overlays over the video quite nicely. A variety of video resize options can be readily accessed by bringing up the options menu with the Triangle button.
If there's a complaint we would have about the 1seg tuner, we'd say it has to be the delay that comes when switching channels. It takes a full second or so for the system to display video of the next channel. Certainly not a major hindrance, especially when considering the quality of video that's produced on such a small peripheral. Japanese Joystiq readers will want to check it out.
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Why even bother Sony?!?!
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Has our sorry excuse for an attention span actually fallen this low? Say it out loud with me.
One-one-thousand.
If having to wait that long bothers you, then you have issues.
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portable tv tuners were soooo 3 gens ago
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Come on guys, it's 1seg. That's a Japanese standard. And it's probably got nothing to do with Sony that it takes 1 second to switch channel. My living room PVR and my Media Center PC do the same. Digital TV is unfortunately like that.
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Tiny it may, sorta, be. But that thing is getting out of the system like nobody's business. Tiny would be if they were using my EyeTV dongle.
A second to change channel? Back on my PowerBook the EyeTV adapter would take a second to change channels too. Yea, Sony fans can go on about it not being long but when you're channel hopping or whatever you really do notice it.
Hopefully it can be fixed through a software update.
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I'm such a genius.
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You can't use this successfully while in motion faster than a walk...so you can't use it on the bus/subway/train/car...you know, the kind of place where portable TV would be nice to have. Again...this is a problem with 1-seg and not this tuner.
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