Video to PSP with new Sony Crazybox
The Crazybox, aka Sony’s Sugo Roku DVR will be available in Japan in a month for around $700 dollars. It lets you record from your TV right onto a Play Station Portable (PSP) memory card.
With this versatile DVR, you could record a program from television and then handily transfer it to your Playstation Portable. But to do this, at least according to IGN news, this means you need a system 2.50 ready PSP. They go on to say in their report, that the recorder will be equipped with an “Odekake Sugo Roku” option which will allow users to transfer video footage from the recorder to the PSP’s Memory Stick via USB. With this speedy setup, you can transfer an hour of programming in just a couple minutes. Not only that, but you can use a spanning feature like in the old floppy disc days if your programming wont fit on a single stick.
If this is released in the US, it could be a major competitor with Apple’s Video iPod. If Sony made a deal with a few major broadcasters to sell $1.99 TV shows on Sony’s music store, they would have some serious pull. The PSP is by and large a better system for viewing TV than the iPod video, though the iPod has much more storage and the ability to cable link with TV. No word on whether Sony has anything to link the PSP with TV in the works.