Sony will launch a new digital
media recorder designed to capture and stream video to Sony-made PlayStation
game consoles, PCs, tablets and smartphones, the company's gaming unit said
Tuesday. Sony Computer Entertainment said the "nasne" device, which
expands on a previous peripheral for the PlayStation, will go on sale in Japan
from July 19, with a 500GB hard drive and inputs for terrestrial and satellite
TV. It will cost $210. An SCE spokesman said the company currently has no
concrete plans to sell the device outside of Japan but is considering various
options. The device is the latest in a series of products and services from the
electronics giant that aim to interconnect its disparate product lines. New CEO
Kazuo Hirai has made providing a unified "Sony experience" a major
goal for the struggling company, putting most of its electronic products into a
single business unit and emphasizing its network platforms.
The nasne is a
successor to an external TV tuner Sony sells for PlayStation game consoles in
Japan, branded "torne." But while that device is marketed as a
PlayStation peripheral and relies on the console for storage, Sony says the
newer nasne is more of a stand-alone product, with its own hard drive and
network presence. The device allows users to watch and record TV broadcasts
using dedicated software on PlayStation consoles or Vaio TVs, and to access
recorded shows from the new Vita portable game console, Xperia smartphones, and
Sony tablets. It can also stream live or recorded shows to two such devices
over a home network, and allows any device to use it as a network drive via the
DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) specification. The nasne also supports
an external hard drive for more storage through a USB port. Sony sells a tuner
for the PlayStation in Europe called "PlayTV," which is similar to
the torne in Japan.
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