If you ever find yourself preparing to trudge off to London's Emirates Stadium in attendance for an Arsenal match, then you might want to make sure you pack a PSP along with the essentials ... like Carling and a brick. Why you might ask? Because you can use that PSP to watch live streaming video pertaining to the current match, go over football data and statistics, and even have the ability to watch near-instant replays.
This soon-to-be-ready, Sony-developed system has been tested at the London stadium which gives any game-goer access to all the marvelous features above -- right on their PSP. It'll apparently roll out in 18 months. We think this is a rather smart move by Sony. After all, once hooligans finish throwing that brick at their least favorite player, they have another object of ample shape and size to toss in anger. Which, in the end, means more PSPs to be potentially sold. It's win-win.
[via Gizmodo]
Reader Comments (15)
Posted: Jan 22nd 2009 3:02PM (Unverified) said
That's the best news I've heard about the PSP in a long time, even if it is for Gooners.
Would be great to see this at Old Trafford and other venues as well.
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Would be great to see this at Old Trafford and other venues as well.
Posted: Jan 22nd 2009 3:37PM (Unverified) said
oooh sweet, am right next to there, will check it out as soon as it goes live...
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2009 3:46PM (Unverified) said
18 months?
Yet again Sony announces something way too early.
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Yet again Sony announces something way too early.
Posted: Jan 22nd 2009 4:04PM (Unverified) said
My guess is this is only for the UK and no love for the US to watch the games? That would suck.
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2009 4:18PM (Unverified) said
The brick throwing jokes can stop now, going to Premier League matches is very safe - especially at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium.
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Posted: Jan 23rd 2009 3:33PM (Unverified) said
Arsenal fans havent got the energy to make some noise, let alone throw something, lazy journalism ;)
As for the 'brick throwing' comments, yes, apparently its someones pathetic attempt at being humourous and instead just being insulting.
Also, considering within football grounds the Big screens arent allowed to show anything contentious, all your likely to get is what you see at half time inside most stadiums, which is a couple of replays of chances. Certainly nothing which will make people think the ref/lineo bottled a call etc
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As for the 'brick throwing' comments, yes, apparently its someones pathetic attempt at being humourous and instead just being insulting.
Also, considering within football grounds the Big screens arent allowed to show anything contentious, all your likely to get is what you see at half time inside most stadiums, which is a couple of replays of chances. Certainly nothing which will make people think the ref/lineo bottled a call etc
Posted: Jan 22nd 2009 4:18PM (Unverified) said
sweeet...more joy for the gunners, come on and sign arshavin and give him a psp now :)
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2009 5:02PM ducttapeBigSexy said
So, instead of making more games for the PSP, Sony is instead making a feature that only a very, very small fraction of PSP owners will actually use. Take that, Nintendo - that's 3 potential DS sales you just lost to Sony!
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2009 6:51PM kspraydad said
You do know that Nintendo implemented this at Seattle's Safeco field right? http://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/detail/xq8r3wpCZYnlcV7ORrdwo9SzBWJZoHl0
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2009 7:55PM ducttapeBigSexy said
I'll admit, I did not know that - probably because no one actually uses it - and I doubt this'll actually move any substantial number of systems. Call me crazy, but what gets me to buy a system is if there are games on it I want to play. If I wanted to view sports stats, I would get a Blackberry.
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2009 8:08PM (Unverified) said
Or you could, you know, watch the football match you paid to see.
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Posted: Jan 23rd 2009 10:32AM (Unverified) said
Now that I think of it, I do not envy the refs! Talk about making ones life more difficult.
Everyone will know when they bottle that offsides call even before they leave the Emirates.
As much as the FA is fighting off replay technology for officials, it's a bit funny the entire stadium will have access except the ones calling the match.
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Everyone will know when they bottle that offsides call even before they leave the Emirates.
As much as the FA is fighting off replay technology for officials, it's a bit funny the entire stadium will have access except the ones calling the match.
Posted: Jan 26th 2009 4:00AM (Unverified) said
From what I understand the service is targetted at those who arrive earl for pre match entertainmentment. Also post match, to reduce the crowds trying to get away from the stadium. This was given some publicity over a year ago, and nothing progressed. So another 18 month wait is hardly impressive on Sony`s part.Also Sony are major partners with Arsenal, with HD televisions all over the stadium.
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