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Old 10 March 2002, 12:32 PM
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So from Dunk is saying:

1) PS3 (when it comes out with it's Tivo extras!!!)
2) GameCube
3) PS2
4) Xbox

[Edited by Andy Tang - 10/3/2002 12:32:37 PM]
Old 03 October 2002, 10:26 AM
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Just read that Sony are plannning to add Tivio style functions to the PS3 for direct TV recording. They may also release an add-on for PS2 to give the same functionality.
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So the PS2 may have a vague use then ?
Old 03 October 2002, 10:48 AM
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Other than playing the best console games on the market.
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Second best
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I never knew you rated Nintendo so highly
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LOL Third best then

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LOL.
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Old 03 October 2002, 07:04 PM
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don't be silly

1) Sega Saturn
2) Atari Jaguar
3) Playstation 2

The Nintendo link was enough to remind him what cartridge gaming was all about

Old 04 October 2002, 09:10 AM
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Personally I would Rank the 3DO and the Super Nintendo above your top 2!
Old 04 October 2002, 02:01 PM
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As it's classed as a games machine, I vote for the good old Commodore Amige
Old 04 October 2002, 02:20 PM
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The Atari ST was *much* better than the Amiga!!!

God I fell like I'm 15 again!!!
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The Atari ST only had Pole Positon the Amiga had Geoff Cramonds first GP game.

Next.
Old 04 October 2002, 03:31 PM
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Talk about "Nostalgia Corner" - and when the Atari ST came out, I was older than 15 ! You'd have to go back to the ZX81 days for that.

It used to be all fields around here, you know.....

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LOL, you joke, but that means I got my ST nearly half a lifetime ago!!!

I remember hankering after a ZX80!!!
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Defender on the BBC still has great playability.

My first console was a black and white Grandstand with two players and multi games!!!
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Old 04 October 2002, 04:18 PM
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Do any of you remember Firefox (I think it was made by Grandstand)?

One of those 'handheld' games that was the size of a shoe box!!!
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I remember firefox, can also remember one of my early handheld space invader games called astro blaster or something like that lol.

can even remember the music!
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So any more details about timescales etc for adding Tivio functions to my PS2

Greg
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that site wants a username and password
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Watch and record TV via your PlayStation 2

Will 'TiVo' give video the heave-ho?

By David Becker

Sony's PlayStation 2 console will gain TiVo-like video functions with software to be announced Monday by two start-ups.

Austin, Texas-based BroadQ is offering Qcast Tuner - software which connects the PS2 with a PC running SnapStream Media's video recording software.

Houston-based SnapStream released its Personal Video Station software last year. The program allows a PC connected to a TV signal to record and play back programs using the PC's hard drive, similar to standalone devices such as the TiVo video recorder.

To date, playback of SnapStream programming has been limited to monitors and other devices connected to a PC. But the network adapter Sony released for the PS2 last month finally gives the company a pathway to television sets, SnapStream CEO Rakesh Agrawal said.

"We've faced the problem of how do we get the content you've recorded to a television, because that's where people want to watch it," he said. "The PS2 gives us one path; there are going to be others."

Analysts said the concept faces a number of challenges, including a nascent market for using PCs to record television programming. Microsoft is promoting such functions with its upcoming Windows XP Media Center software, but it's likely to be some time before consumers think of PCs as media devices.

David Cole, president of research firm DFC Intelligence, noted that Sony executives have talked about using the PlayStation as a multimedia device, but it will be a few years before such ideas are practical.

"I think the overall idea of being able to view video and other content via the game console, that has real long-term potential, but I think you're talking four or five years down the road," he said. "You're really looking more at the PlayStation 3. By then, people will have more of the home networking capacity, and the game systems themselves will have more capacity."

I clicked a few adverts to keep Silicon.com happy. Well, whoever's left in the building anyhow.


Old 07 October 2002, 02:57 PM
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right fat lot of good that is then ah well back to my z80
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