Kutaragi Ken: "PSX Concept aims at post VHS"

[ChryZ]

Kutaragi Ken: "The concept of PSX which aims at post VHS"

The Sony group which throws in the DVD recorder "PSX" using PlayStation 2 chip set this year. Mr. Kutaragi Ken (the Sony vice president / the Sony Computer Entertainment president and CEO) of this group was asked about a concept, protection of copyrights, etc. of PSX.

[Q] I want you to teach the concept of PSX.

[Mr. Kutaragi Ken] The aim of PSX is "Mailbox VHS." I want to already record TV program on videotape in digital one fundamentally [ it is amusing to still record on videotape analogically on the tape, and ]. the image data which stored it once to HDD -- a writer -- the world of writing to bull DVD PSX is the goods which aim at that simply.

[Q] Should it be thought that it is only a DVD recorder?

[Mr. Kutaragi Ken] That is right. As to what it is different, it is a feeling of operation. The quality of an old AV equipment is not reached by the DVD recorder of the present household electric appliances. Those who are present in my world at least turn out that a feeling of a feel is important in the man machine interface. However, since it is a very low level now (DVD/HDD recorder), stress is considerably to see EPG by GUI, traverse rapidly the program recorded on videotape, or browse. If it is TV, it will not be made to having changed the channel to PAPPA in remote control. If it is a game machine, that natural speediness [ say / talking with menu [untranslated phrase] item [untranslated phrase] and other players during a battle ] does not exist.

[Q] There are many interfaces with a slow reaction that surely it is hard to use.

[Mr. Kutaragi Ken] Since neither hardware nor software has literacy as to [ it / why ] it is it. Those who are developing are frantic reasons. Based on a vast quantity of specifications, it must do not getting used, and a system must be made. It is pitiful.
PSX is equipped with Ethernet.

It is the chief aim of PSX that the property (chip set) of PS2 will be used for [untranslated phrase] et al. and there. It is to realize the digital appliances of the 2nd generation for the property of PS2. That is, what is being aimed at is post VHS intently.

However, since the function of PS2 is contained in PSX, it has been misunderstood. There was also a radical idea of deleting the function of PS2 at the beginning. [untranslated phrase] -- there is no confusing [untranslated phrase] a name -- PSX -- without it attaches -- a cocoon But since PS is also contained in the home with much trouble, it says, and it says, there is also [untranslated phrase] saying, and the name was also set to PSX.

It is sad to say [ having only added with PlayStation 2 and the now popular DVD recorder in if everybody to PSX being "PS2.5" such a place, and ]. Therefore, don't prove at all that it is different (it is a concept).

[Q] That is, it is if the tip of PS2 is used in order to realize the DVD recorder of the 2nd generation.

[Mr. Kutaragi Ken] That is right. There is a fact that DVD which can be written in tends to start the Big Bang still more in the background. It could produce in large quantities at this time, beautiful GUI could be realized, and the engine of operation which there is admiration with a crunching sound, and can take out the resolution and color density of TV just as it is and to which it got used and yet became the talk called something. And the engine which Sony has was Emotion Engine and Graphics Synthesizer. Since there is power of PS2 which produces no less than 3 million sets per month, even if a DVD recorder starts the Big Bang truly, it increases the quantity of production at a stretch, and can start a market (if it is PSX).

[Q] Isn't it positioning called a contents server?

[Mr. Kutaragi Ken] It is a media server rather than a contents server. For example, a digital camera and the image of the cellular phone with a camera are taken in via a memory stick or USB. Although this is now put into PC, probably, I want to put into PSX and to see by TV.

[Q] It is not the directivity of the home server of an image.

[Mr. Kutaragi Ken] It is wax about post VHS first rather than it calls it the home server made anything. I want as easy YATSU as you may not be in a very easy manual etc.

Although a home server-function can also be made technical, a manual (document) will become thicker as it does. It places not beside a tool like VAIO which can be done anything but beside TV, and, as for the place currently aimed at, anyone can use a child and his wife in comfort. I want to be businesslike to some extent and to aim at household electric appliances easy about two PS.

[Q] It does not consider being connected with other devices.

[Mr. Kutaragi Ken] Of course, since it is connected in a network, various casting can be performed via Ethernet. Although not decided yet, supposing it will put in IEEE 802.11 in the future, casting can be done simply. It can do, if it is Sony (apparatus), and puts into CLIE or puts into PSP using a memory stick. other apparatus -- cooperating -- [untranslated phrase] -- the talk to say spreads in whole Sony, and it is done However, a chief aim is in the place which makes household electric appliances easy about two PS.

[Q] The dug view [ say / the step which goes to the home server of a Cell base ] was also carried out.
The architecture of PS series

[Mr. Kutaragi Ken] It is completely the peer to peer world which can be called Cell computing. It is a little different. It is [untranslated phrase] which will be united in the future.

[Q] A possibility of expanding application of PS2 chip set further.

[Mr. Kutaragi Ken] The DVD recorder which is spreading explosively now is given at a stretch (with stone of PS2). However, since the stone of PS2 is a stone of several years ago, although it is enough, it is not more than it. [ of a certain amount of level ] Probably, it will be better to advance a world more rather than extensively adapted for digital appliances in the engine of [untranslated phrase] et al. and PS2 (smile).

[Q] If PS2 tip is not developed to other devices using a pixel.

[Mr. Kutaragi Ken] Any longer, it is not the time of putting that stone (tip of PS2) into TV. Then, while it is, the following time comes and it becomes deployment of a Cell base. It is not only Cell, and although there is also a peripheral LSI of Cell, I think that the Cell peripheral LSI group will also be used. Since there are not [untranslated phrase] and project [untranslated phrase] five year after.

[Q] If PS of no less than 2 titles can be played by PSP, doesn't the difference in the business model of household electric appliances and a game machine become a problem?

[Mr. Kutaragi Ken] Although I get angry halfway each time and being corrected, the business model at least which loses by our company being hard is not realized. However, those who take out also with a deficit or pass strange misapprehension intentionally are in the hardware of a game machine. Then, truly, the other company does such a thing (Hurd is taken out with a deficit), and has the terrible experience splendidly. That it cannot but stop taking out a deficit every year [untranslated phrase] ....

Though it compares and becomes equal, then, the next investment cannot be performed. I also get an abundant fund from the Sony group, and have not made an investment [ PS / PS1, PS2, or /3 ]. It is doing by OKANE prepared itself. For that purpose, it is hard and there cannot be no business model which loses.

[Q] The loyalty model is taken.

[Mr. Kutaragi Ken] Although it may mistake also about the loyalty, about me, it is cheap rather than it prints a magazine in the worst-case scenario. And the S C E group is the system linked to the soft price, and is not uniform. [ at least ]

There is a reason also in a loyalty. When it is now, there is much payment to the patent pool of MPEG-2. That is, I want you to regard the loyalty paid to the other company as KATACHI of IP having changed. R&D investment considerable as the part (cross-license) and a group is carried out also with the technology which is the cross-license of a metaphor and the Sony group and is used (with loyalty free-lancer). It is necessary to it to refund.

[Q] PSX starts a digital TV broadcast time. How does it correspond?

[Mr. Kutaragi Ken] PSX of a model this year is an analog. It is enough for an ordinary person. For the moment, the analog of a picture is more beautiful.

But it becomes digital broadcasting rapidly after this, and naturally, PSX also evolves into that one and, as for a model next year, will go. since it is completely the time of digital TV broadcast when it is overseas, if I will take out PSX to overseas and a plan will be made, naturally make it the United States -- make it Europe -- it becomes digital TV broadcast correspondence

[Q] The DRM (digital right management) function of PSX.

[Mr. Kutaragi Ken] Of course, various technology is put in. Not the thing decided only by us but the technology "do now" is not put in, and there is also [untranslated phrase].

[Q] The weak point of the home server of PC base is contents protection clearly.

[Mr. Kutaragi Ken] It has an unavoidable portion. Since PC is the tool which is not done anything. On a tool called [ also breaking a security thing, also making, or ] PC. First of all, there is no security thing like a peculiar telephone number in PC. It is a problem how far although it has said that security PC will be now done by Palladium (Next-Generation Secure Computing Base:NGSCB), a contents side believes.

[Q] The difficulty of Palladium should not become perfect unless all software is set to Palladium.

[Mr. Kutaragi Ken] (with Palladium) I think that DRM of PC also improves. It will become the stage where various [ to some extent ] things on DRM move from the state of completely old uncontrolledness. But too, if PC is not made anything, it is bad. therefore, even when it must be impossible by DRM (a copy etc.), some men know very much what can be carried out (there is a method) That becomes a problem.

To it, those who offer contents and service are doing on business, and are moving on copyright. And PIRIPIRI [ the contents side ] now. Especially, PIRIPIRI [ a musical state is carried out before its eyes, and / the party of a movie ] fearfully. Therefore, it is necessary to offer DRM to which they can be convinced.

However is a big difference of temperature here. That is, at the northernmost ends (Silicon Valley etc.) and the southernmost end, it has a difference of temperature also in California (Hollywood etc.).

Although often talked with the human being of a movie, their goods are refunded the first grade which is goods of 20 dollars and is the box office revenue of a movie. On the other hand, the direction of a game must do refund for several 10 dollars temporarily. The game was very more sensitive in DRM and it has done it at PlayStation all the time. Therefore, in PSP, it is said that I want you to trust us. They have also felt inclined to say whether it will believe. Since it does not have what is otherwise believed.

(September 3, 2003)

original japanese article / translation by excite.co.jp

 

[cthellis42]

SHIN SHORYUKEN!

 

[DeadmeatGA]

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However, those who take out also with a deficit or pass strange misapprehension intentionally are in the hardware of a game machine. Then, truly, the other company does such a thing (Hurd is taken out with a deficit), and has the terrible experience splendidly. That it cannot but stop taking out a deficit every year [untranslated phrase] ....

What Kutaragi claims here is that SCEI doesn't lose any money on hardware, and that its competitor actually bought into the notion of loss on hardware and got into trouble.(Making fun of Xbox)

Let's wait and see what kind of pricing we get on PSX3 if Kutaragi doesn't intend to lose money....

 

[Paul]

Sony took a loss too Deadmeat, Kutaragi is just making fun of the fact that Sony makes their money back while MS didn't(and won't ever?)