Sony's New Blu-ray Recorder Moves TV (not BD) Vid to PSP - Gizmodo Comments

Sony's New Blu-ray Recorder Moves TV (not BD) Vid to PSP

human3rror — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:45:12 EDT

@Bob Caswell: Interesting. I'm still waiting on a definitive BR player to buy... is playstation 3 still the best bet?

Sony's New Blu-ray Recorder Moves TV (not BD) Vid to PSP

Computer_Chef — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:41:10 EDT

I'm confused. Isn't this accomplished by something like a HDHomeRun for $200? There's no way a Mac mini used as a media center is going to cost the $1470 difference, or even the $1000 you get by subtracting for a BR player. This sounds more like a story on more vendor lock-in from Sony.

Also, who in their right mind is going to chew through $15 BR discs to record stuff anyway? As I've long said, optical is dead unless they step up their game to match the innovation level we've seen from HD and flash storage industries. BR might have "won" the HD war, but I'll wager it doesn't even have 2 years of lifetime before it becomes an "also ran".

Computer_Chef

Sony's New Blu-ray Recorder Moves TV (not BD) Vid to PSP

Worf — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:29:04 EDT

So do these things record as BDAV or BDMV profiles?

Worf

Sony's New Blu-ray Recorder Moves TV (not BD) Vid to PSP

shawn_dude — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:03:20 EDT

The real story here is how we're supposed to be grateful for the slightly relax viewing restrictions. Sure, you paid for the content, but you can only watch it on the devices we say you can, when we say you can, and only for as long as we say you can. Gee, aren't we generous?

At some point, even lazy people will get frustrated with all the limits, exceptions, and product lock-in schemes and just turn it all OFF.

shawn_dude

Sony's New Blu-ray Recorder Moves TV (not BD) Vid to PSP

groovyone — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:59:06 EDT

It would be cool now that I have a PSP, but not at the current price of admission.

groovyone

Sony's New Blu-ray Recorder Moves TV (not BD) Vid to PSP

mdnttoker — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:39:38 EDT

That's pretty cool. I love the picture quality on the PSP when viewing on the train...now I can easily transfer my tv shows and watch on the train.

mdnttoker

Sony's New Blu-ray Recorder Moves TV (not BD) Vid to PSP

Monty — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:16:51 EDT

Does this make up for the "no PS3 Blu-ray to PSP" transfer story?

Instead of a free feature added to most Blu-ray movies, we can buy a ~$1600 piece of hardware to get a similar feature?

Oh yes, that makes up for it.

Monty

Sony's New Blu-ray Recorder Moves TV (not BD) Vid to PSP

Bob — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:59:32 EDT

In related news, Sony thinks it will sell as much Blu-ray stuff as regular DVD by the end of the year, citing new Blu-ray recorders (like this one) among the reasons. For more crazy ass reasoning as to why Sony thinks Blu-ray will take over the world very soon, check this out:

[www.techconsumer.com]

Bob

Sony's New Blu-ray Recorder Moves TV (not BD) Vid to PSP

weatherman — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:38:57 EDT

Nice feature, but definitely on the pricey side. And it doesn't seem to offer as much as TiVO To Go does.

weatherman

Sony's New Blu-ray Recorder Moves TV (not BD) Vid to PSP

Samifumi — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:20:24 EDT

So now that Blu Ray won, we're supposed to all run out and stock up on Sony products we never wanted in the first place? No thanks.

Samifumi