It is still a very cheap HDD/DVD recorder, and this kind of stuffs have never sold a lot.
All in all, the execution is pretty bad, you can see the laundry list of problems (even after the latest 3/31 update).
It has indeed gone out of my expectation
) just a little bit over my expectations, bad execution on cheap gimmick products like I said before), and indeed I read about it on 3/27 on a Chinese forum about the news on "Nikkei Shimbun". I was just wondering when will people post this as I was too lazy to dig the old "PSX details" thread out.
From DCharlie at GA Forum
"Time for another PSX rant :
Well, the biggest issue (IMO) is the total lack of cable support coupled with the absolute shocking fact that you can only take line in from RCA.
EVEN THOUGH THERE IS AN SVIDEO INPUT(!!!!)
So if you have cable/non-bs satellite, then you are basically going to be HD-Recording a shitty signal and you can't use any sort of automated recording.
The DVD record speed was also a total distortion. I remember people going "HOLY SHIT!!! 24x DVD Recording!!!", but when it came out it only initially had "8x DVD recording" - but - the speed is IN COMPARISON TO CDR speeds. So - 8x DVD = 1x DVD.
Under the first drivers - it took an age to burn a DVD
Under the second drivers - it took 5 minutes less than an age to burn
When playing games and swapping out back to tv , the whole system has to reset itself. You can't play another game or move through the menus for around 1-2 minutes.
The Atrac burning speed is pretty slow.
MP3 playback is supposedly added, but that doesn't seem to be true either.
Switching channels sometimes means that sound is dropped altogether and the unit has to be reset. (This happens pretty often)
the location of the ports is a good idea (hide them away from the sleek from system) - but the ridge around them makes it a pain in the arse to plug/unplug stuff. Granted - you shouldn't really be doing this.
I thought the pad that came with the PSX is already busted. The left shoulder button is flakey, and the right analogue stick keeps playing up.
Plugged in a different pad and the same issues existed. Hmmm. Seems to be very tempremental.
Has a nasty habit of ignoring the fact that i chose the Foreign language track for certain broadcasts, meaning i have quite a few films recorded in Japanese. . The new drivers apparently support dual language recording.
Forget to set up your 40gig PS2 HDD part. and you have to delete your entire HDD contents.
About a minute wait before the unit actually starts to play a PS2 game.
etc etc etc...
It's a nice idea, it looks slick, it makes part of my life easier (recording late night anime and stuff) , but if i was to go back in time i would advise myself to put the extra cash to the cost of the PSX and get a proper HDD recorder."
Another from him.
"one thing i did read (don't have the source) was that they expected all the glitches and patches to be installable and the machine to be fully functional at the specs/abilities that were announced pre launch near the end of the year (!!!!!)"
