Sony’s PSP to become portable PVR……
While this looks to be great news, I’ve already had success with going from a ReplayTV to DVArchive, then PSPWare to the PSP.
Nothing like watching the last two episodes of “Everybody hates Chris” and an episode of “Rome” on a long cross-country flight.
BTW – battery life on the PSP is so much better than my PowerBook.
Sony’s PSP to become portable PVR, to allow TV consumption anywhere, wirelessly [update1]:
Sony’s CEO announced plans to extend the PSP’s multimedia capabilities so that users can use the PSP’s “built-in WiFi to watch video from home entertainment terminals, anytime, anywhere in the world.”
That’s a bit contradictory. Home is in one place, and “anywhere in the world” is everywhere else, but we think he means that PSP owners will be able to use the device as a portable personal video recorder, or PPVR to coin a new and unwieldy acronym. Stringer also let on that the device will soon be augmented by a high-capacity MemoryStick and synching software that will make it easy to take loads of digital video anywhere.
Being able to synch your Tivo to your PSP wirelessly would be the next logical step in time-shifting (previous attempts to put TivoToGo on the PSP were a complete pain in the ass). It may even be the next killer app. Will the PSP make portable TV widely available and easy to use?