Sony PSX Wanted

[alexh]

2003 Sony PS2 based PVR. Japan only.

Never new this even existed.

How confusing! PSX is the original pre-release name for the PSOne. I would have never gotten used to it had it taken off.

[alexh]

It won't have a RF tuner compatible with Europe so you wont be able to pick up / record live Analog TV.

It doesn't have RGB input, or component input, just NTSC composite. So you wont be able to record much, at least not in colour.

It's going to suck really badly.

[Edit: Update]
Ok, it has an SVideo input (NTSC only) so slightly better quality B&W recordings :-)

You would be much better off making your own HTPC with a DVB card.

[alexh]

Tomas wrote:

alexh wrote:
You would be much better off making your own HTPC with a DVB card.

Just buy a cheap tvtuner/dvb card for your pc and you will have the best pvr ever.

Isnt that what I said?? Sheesh!

Tomas wrote:
With that PSX box you will both suffer from digital-analog-digital artifacts thanks to conversion from analog to digital and recompression.

Worse. Reports are that PSX-PVR TV capture doesn't work AT ALL with PAL signals. RF, composite and SVideo all reported not to work with PAL even B&W :-(

[alexh]

Another pointless post by Atheist.

[alexh]

I'm sure he's got a fixed IP address if a sysop felt the need to ban him permanently ;-)

The internet doesn't half bring out the freaks.

[alexh]

I've just come back from Singapore (the company that I work for has an office there) and while I was there I took the advantage to get a suitcase full of electronics and I managed to get two PSX PVR's. (Unboxed I'm afraid)

Are you still interested in one?

[alexh]

I already sent TheMud a PM but if he is not interested...

In Singapore they were a lot cheaper than I imagined. I never expected to see one, and then I thought being quite rare they'd be $$$$'s not the case.