Shots of the PSP Slim's 1Seg TV Tuner

Posted Aug 9, 2007 at 10:27PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Accessories, News, PSP Slim & Lite Tags: 1seg, Japan, Sony

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New photos of the PSP's 1Seg Tuner have graced the Internet. The 1Seg Tuner is a device that can allow the PSP to view digital television broadcasts. It is attached through the USB port like the Go!Cam.

So from what can be discerned, the 1Seg Tuner will have its very own icon in the PSP XrossMediaBar and on entering the program, a menu displaying all the available channels will appear on the right. The full screen option is available, and (if it's safe for us to assume) can be brought up by the R button.

The Tuner will only work on the PSP Slim (or PSP 2000, but Slim sounds more familiar) and will launch in Japan late next month. More updates on this as they get fed into our own QJ tuners.

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Comments

# First =P — MikeyMike01 2007-08-09 17:09

Does this thing connect via USB? If so maybe devs could hack it for the PSP-1000...

# woops — MikeyMike01 2007-08-09 17:11

Whoops, I didn't see the first line above the photos.

# :( — Guest 2007-08-09 17:13

Japan only :(

# this is unfair — Guest 2007-08-09 17:26

this is just a force sony try to make ppl buy their new psp. ppl who had the old psp will need to buy new one.

# ... — Guest 2007-08-09 17:29

I'm pretty sure it will work with other psp regions.

Chotto Shot and the GPS worked. Why not this?

# Omg — Guest 2007-08-09 17:32

Why do we need this. I mean this would be really cool if we had the right signals outside Japan. Still think the devs should port a pocket dish emulator so I can rip movies off my Dish XD.

# original psp — Guest 2007-08-09 17:40

Maybe its just me, but i have a feeling that someone is gonna make a homebrew or mod that will allow the tuner to work on an original psp. While its not certain, it seems likely, cuz most people wont buy a psp slim just for the tuner, and people would want it

# Japan Only — Guest 2007-08-09 17:58

It will worki n Japan only because we (US) dont get these signals. The only thing we get over here is DVB-T signals, which can allow us to watch FreeView, but Sony still wont make an accessory for that either! So unless you like in Japan, you can not get these signals. Sure you can mod a PSP to run it....but you will get 0 channels...always.

# Hack one — crzycop 2007-08-09 18:06

So if the US can only get DVB-T signals, then someone should just make a mod and a hack to allow us to watch TV. I say this should be another contest for QJ.

# PRX firmware film from slim to fat — Guest 2007-08-09 18:28

I'm guessing somebody will be manage to load the tv prx file from the slim one on the fat one.

# sony go ***** your self — Guest 2007-08-09 18:58

i'm angry i have an old psp and this *****s are trying to force me buying a new one but i'm not interested i'm gonna buy a ps3 insted

# lol — Guest 2007-08-09 19:06

Thats pretty sad forcing people to buy the new PSP. Whats even sadder is that even the Sega Game Gear had a TV tuner. Why was it so hard to make one earlier?

# calm down ppl — Guest 2007-08-09 19:18

is 4 japan only so stop ur *****in unless u live in japan

# Yer — Guest 2007-08-09 21:37

Yer, all tha ugly w@nk3rs get it but all the upper class s3x donkeys (me) dont get it...

# OMG — Guest 2007-08-09 22:56

Don't bother with a PSP Slim it looks really tacky!

# bob411 Exactly. — Guest 2007-08-09 23:04

All the baby cryers talking shight about SONY as

if their twisting your arms to go out and buy a

new one, get over your selves.

I know what it is, people are just pissed that

Japan gets all the cool stuff years before US

does, if we ever get it at all.

We don't even have an NTFC GoCAM yet but everybody else gets a GoCAM for their region.

SONY must hate Americans though, I mean think

about it, a lot of stuff gets released to others long

before it's released to the US.

Ok, so to rap it up... Japan gets ChottoShot and Digital

Broadcast TV receiver adaptor. Americans get... FAT LIP!

# WTF are you talking about Digiplay? — Guest 2007-08-09 23:09

The PSP-1000 isn't much of a difference.

The Slim looks just like the original but

thinner. If the new PSP is ugly, it's just

as ugly as the original then. You make

no sense with your baited breath.

# SONY should... — Guest 2007-08-09 23:15

Just to prove me wrong, release a US NTSC GoCAM and a US Broadcast TV receiver adapter but, they wouldn't do that now would they. Noooooooo.

# what they should do — Guest 2007-08-10 00:47

is release an upgraded version of the gocam in the Us at least 3 or 4 megapixel cuz 1.3 come on i got more resolution on my cellphone. or release also the gps thing. the tv capture thing who cares :s i mean that doesn't allow you to watch cable tv or satellite :s does it so what's the point ?

# 1seg — Guest 2007-08-10 01:13

For mobile TV, 1seg is broadcasted in ISDB-T here in Japan.

Same system used in the mobile phone, pda, electronic dictionary etc.. here.

So I doubt they will make different version of the system, as it is not deployed every where.

Korea is more like to get it and they use T-DMB standard.

# Comment — Guest 2007-08-10 01:14

Why those little *****y japanese are going to have that accesory, I'd like to have it for my bigger and old psp.

What's the *****ing problem with Sony!!!!!!!

# Dang — Guest 2007-08-10 02:32

I really would like to have a TV Tuner but no, We (U.S.A) dont bother broadcasting television through the air. Japan is always ahead of us by like 10x. Everyone in Japan is walking around with TV on all their portable devices, Cell Phones included.

We have DVB-T (Yes, in the US) which can use Freeview, and thats nice and all, but the PSP doesnt have a tuner for that. I would like to see somebody find a way to make a DVB-T receiver work on a PSP, that would be sweet. Because honestly, TV on a psp would be really nice, I dont like locationfree player because being by a hotspot is such a hassle. And the price for DVB-T portable devices is around $300, why not just find a way to get it working on a PSP, the tuners cost $20. And yes, some of them will actually connect to a PSP USB Port, its just a matter of getting it running.

# PAL release — Guest 2007-08-10 03:11

This product will be released in the uk and across all PAL territories to the PSP-2000. The uk version will be modified so it can receive "Freeview" channels (DVB-T) rather than analogue because as of 2008 the analogue signals will be shut down in the uk. As far as i am aware the product will be released early 2008 in the uk and across all PAL territories.

# great — Guest 2007-08-10 04:10

i knew this was going to happen... sony is gonna support the psp slim and slowly phase out the fat ones. If this is true im never buying anything from them again.

# nice — Hekynn 2007-08-10 04:23

Not a bad idea for flight goers! :) Heck I maybe flying back to VA to visit my old friends and my parents friends as well so this could be a good add on if they get them to work for us psp's reg/and slim psp's :)

# LOL! — Guest 2007-08-10 04:29

if u gnna buy that S**T for the tv output, relise that sony will sell the tv output wire seperate and devs will create sum kind of plugin that will make it availible to psp fat

# . — Guest 2007-08-10 04:30

does it connect to a usb port on a modem

# LOL! — Guest 2007-08-10 04:34

well it plugs into use OF COURSE, wut else wud it plug in, since sony knows homebrew, the gnna do it, then gnna make it usb so old psp owners could get it, havnt u read the active talking thing, simpley, sony knows that homebrew users wont buy the new one, so they gnna make it both compatible, someone correct me if i am rong

# Wir mussen die Japaner ausrotten — Guest 2007-08-10 04:56

Those japanese pricks hate us americans. First pearl harbour and now that. We have to exterminate them

# . — Guest 2007-08-10 05:24

You're completely wrong.

# ummmm.... — Guest 2007-08-10 06:26

@Patriotsky Amerikansky-dude, calm ur @$$, its just a game.....

that said, sony pretty much has no choice but to release it for both PSP editions, otherwise, they'd need to create 2 different sets of firmware updates, and risk people downloading the wrong one and bricking their psp's, they're probubly going to wait untill they're sure the vast majority of gamers have the new psp sllim, then release it for the older psp model.....

# Truth why America won't see this... — Guest 2007-08-10 06:40

The truth why this isn't gonna be released in the US is because the only country where over 99% of the medium and high class people are up to date with technological advances are japanese. The truth is that if they do this in the US or almost any other country it will be a loss for any TV company to host this new service cause only a few people will know about it. In addition, to back this up you all know how poorly portable handheld televisions sold in the US? well you probably don't remember them but you don't see them being sold now, in japan many people bought portable handheld televisions and they still are being sold (and for all those US haters, what happenned in the US goes as well in England, Australia, Canada, ect.).

# Wait... — Guest 2007-08-10 06:51

I just received information that this is also gonna be released in the UK and PAL territories a few months after Japan. Something is wrong as I know this won't be that succesful in the UK and PAL territories...

# Support for the fat psp — Guest 2007-08-10 07:21

They have to make an accesory for the fat psp that support the video function!!!!

What's the problem if they make an analog TV tuner for the fat one!!!

Sony don't ***** up

# To metalspector (Unregistered) — CHUCKINGROCKSATSPACESHIPS 2007-08-10 07:45

I would buy this. I like the idea of having an all in one entertainment system small enough to take with me.

# Don't Be An Idiot — CHUCKINGROCKSATSPACESHIPS 2007-08-10 07:49

Why do you say such bullshiit?

# GAY — Guest 2007-08-10 08:30

Why not the fat psp too? what the hell? come on.

the psp is doomed if they don't support their original customers damnit.

# hummm. — Guest 2007-08-10 08:32

Why not just buy a location base for the psp. cable or direct tv over free wifi... we have wifi here right

# Patriotsky Amerikansky — Guest 2007-08-10 09:31

every one hates you arogant bastards, so ***** you redneck

# You're a stupid-*uck. — Guest 2007-08-10 09:33

This sort of racism could perhaps be... The reason that we're not liked?

The American people are stupid, and I'm ashamed to have been born in this country.

# lol — Guest 2007-08-10 09:34

haha, so you are pissed off at Sony, and as a result you don't buy a PSP but you will buy a SONY PS3. That makes a lot of sense.

# hehe — Guest 2007-08-10 11:16

Gah, the antenna looks like an old one found on radios from 1964 :(

Also ISDB-T signal, never heard of it.

If it CAN do DVB-H than i want it :) I'll import it from Japan as it works on my PSP-1004.

Coders, get to work :)

# lol — Guest 2007-08-10 13:06

lol, u will still support SonyXD, if u wanna protest then buy a WII, DS or 360. then write it here so Sony can see it and maybee if they see enough pissed people they release it to the old PSP and all countries. I want one for my old PSP to. But I need PS3 for MGS4 and therefore I can't buy the slim as I actually was thinking about. I love sony consoles, but I agree that Sony is doing a lot of things wrong now. If it hadn't been for MGS4 I had bought a 360 tomorow.

# I think they hate Europe more — Guest 2007-08-10 13:12

Well, that goes for everyone in the gaming industry. It seems that they really hate europe. Or, I know it is because of sales, but damn it was annoying when they released MGS:PO 6 months earlier in US and japan than europe, I was about to import, but because of that Sony sued lik sang a while ago They couldn't ship it over here. A while later i hacked my PSP and they "forced2 me to DL it. And I want to support MGS and FF because theyr'e so damn good, not even to begin talking about suporting my beloved PSP who suffers real bad because of piracy.

# lol — Guest 2007-08-10 13:18

lolzorz, u relize that without the Japanese people there wouldn't even have been any kind of PS? Not any nintendoes either for that sake, only xboxes everywhere, lol, not that I have anything against XBOX, dont get me wrong on that.

# second — Guest 2007-08-10 14:00

second

# Yeah but — Guest 2007-08-10 15:17

that you would buy it doesn't mean it's gonna be succesful. In fact, I bet the majority of people who come to pspupdates for news would buy this because they know a lot of their psp. But to a business standard it would be a failure cause outside this noone will know of the service or know the psp's capability or about new technology and will ignore this, there will be losses if any TV companie decided to host signal for the psp. Now if it were to watch only local channels I could see a possibility since it won't need any agreements between tv companies and the product could be sold by sony to retails but how would they get that to cheap price? Will it be a good investment? Or would it be horrible and actually bring losses due to production cost?

# I don't know about america — Guest 2007-08-10 15:21

But in Australia we have many portable TV's, maybe in america you use too much cable tv. cable has only really taken off in the last several years here, there is no need for special services we've got free to air tv you can pick up anywhere.

# yup! — Guest 2007-08-10 15:22

I'd much rather have a 4 MP GoCam than this tuner (unless they make a US one that can save programs to the mem stick)

# lol — Guest 2007-08-10 15:47

No one's forcing you to buy the new psp. You don't have to buy it if you don't want to.

# verbatim — Guest 2007-08-10 15:53

stop talking s.h.i.t. if you really want to support the game, there are a lot of places you can import it, don't give lame excuses for downloading games

# :) — crzycop 2007-08-10 17:19

Start hacking

# i second the donkey — Guest 2007-08-10 19:48

look up

# Ya — Guest 2007-08-10 23:04

Best Contest Ever, reward: TV Goes to everyone else. Coders reward: ...Pat on the back , lol

# If Only — Guest 2007-08-10 23:09

If Only I could, I would. lol. Someone hear me out there, code one to work with DVB-T !

# What?! — Guest 2007-08-11 07:54

WHAT?! Im confused? Is this going to need a SEPERATE SERVICE for the broadcast TV? If so, Why the hell not just give it a NORMAL antenna to use the ALREADY FREE TV being broadcasted. I wouldn't mind just having news channels like FOX or PBS.

# lame... sony is lame — Guest 2007-08-11 09:55

there is absolutely no reason why they couldn't make this compatible with the "old, fat" psp.. way to support your products Sony! Even Nintendo is selling 2 versions of it's NDS browser for Lite and non Lite owners..

# bastard sony — Guest 2007-08-11 13:40

forcing us to buy the new psp slim, foook yooooo sony. + isnt that xmb logo the same one from the speculation of what the firmware 3.00 wos gonna be in that magazine??

# Sony tries to lure people to buy — Guest 2007-08-16 16:43

sony is very late nintendo ds came up to ds lite earlier for people to avail unlike sony its kind of late for now many people have their own psp already so sony came up with a tv tuner? its insane!!! psp's are expensive and im happy with my fat one

# can u also hack it lik the old one — Guest 2007-08-18 09:13

is this 1 better than th old 1 if so y and r the letter gona be in japanese or can u change it

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