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Monday, December 01, 2003

PSX dumbed down to make holiday sales season
According to a report in DIGIT, Sony has dramatically scaled back the feature set in its PSX game console/next generation consumer electronics product in order to release it by the end of the year. As the report reads, "The PSX is Sony's first attempt at tying the world of consumer electronics and games together and combines a hard disk drive video recorder, DVD recorder, music player, photo viewer, and PlayStation 2 games console in a single box ... Gone from the latest specifications is the ability to play back DVD+RW discs, data CD-R discs (although audio CDs recorded on CD-R discs are supported). The ability to display TIFF and GIF format images, and movies taken with Sony's Cybershot digital still cameras have been dropped, as well as the playback of MP3 files. Copying of video files from the PSX's hard disk drive to DVD discs has been slowed down, from 24x speed to 12x speed, and it cannot connect to the PlayStation BB online gaming service." Sony officials acknowledged the changes. We have changed the specification," said Taro Takamine, a spokesman for Sony in Tokyo. "Basically, as of October 7 we planned some features such as DVD+RW playback, CD-R playback, TIFF and GIF (image file) support and PlayStation BB but we decided to drop such features." These changes will make the device easier to use, he says, and couldn't be tested adequately in the amount of time required. Ah well.

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