Mixing into the cluttered Personal Video Recorder market, Sony routinely offers a wide variety of products to choose from. The market has generally consisted of full service PVR providers with advanced features and the lower end DVRs offered through cable companies built into the box top cable boxes.
Meeting both ends of the market in the middle, the Sony DHG line delivers the best of both worlds. This line of Sony PVRs steps ahead of most of the market with a built in high definition tuner as well as many of the advanced functions of a full service PVR provider such as TiVo. The only thing it is missing is the monthly price tag.
Another Sony model worth mentioning is the PSX. This PVR works with Sony’s popular PSP video game, reaching out to many younger consumers. The PSX allows you to transfer stored digital content from the PVR box to a memory stick, and from there it is simple to transfer the content onto the PSP. This turns Sony’s PSP from a basic handheld game to a mixed media of digital entertainment on the go.
Sony comes out as one of the top leaders in the personal video recorder industry when it comes to new innovations in digital technology. They have been working toward wireless solutions that will make the living room entertainment set up even more simple and clutter free. The days of having multiple boxes sitting on top of a television were numbered when many people started wall mounting their televisions. It’s time for PVR technology to catch up.
A short abbreviated history of Sony’s technology advances shows what a diverse and hugely innovative a company Sony truly is.
2003: The NDR-XR1 PVR was announced Sony’s Japanese market. With an 80GB hard drive, it held up to 90 hours of digital video. It also contained a DVD recorder and built in DVD writer, which allowed customers to download movies and then burn them onto DVDs, no computer transfer required!
2004: The Type X was unveiled with a whopping 1TB of storage space. It also included 7 HDTV tuners, allowing viewers to record up to seven programs at once. It even supported accessories normally used only by a computer, such as a mouse and keyboard.
2007: The Play Station 3 (PS3) digital TV Tuner was introduced with built-in PVR. This was a PVR that made use of another extremely popular Sony product, the PS3 video game. With the PVR addition, consumers could now record shows from their television sets into the PS3 console. It had the capability to record one show while watching another and even allowed transfers to be made to the PSP handheld games.
Sony has put in a lot of hard work to claim their right at the top of the competitive PVR pack not only by new developments to their video recorders, but by integrating their gaming products into wider television uses.
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