Sony To Launch New PSX Models

By Ian Bell March 20, 2005

“The new products will come in two types: the DESR-7700 with a 250GB HDD and the DESR-5700 with a 160GB HDD. Both models use the same hardware used in the conventional PSX. The price will be open, but the company expects it to be around Â¥80,000 and around Â¥60,000, respectively.

The HDD DVD recorders dub an MPEG-2 video data file recorded on the HDD onto MemoryStick after converting it to an MEPG-4 file. There are two types of dubbing mode: high-resolution mode, with the frame rate of 30 fps and the encoding rate of 768 kbps, and low-resolution mode, with the frame rate of 15 fps and the encoding rate of 384 kbps.”

Sony will launch the new PSX models in Japan only starting April 15th.

Read more at NE Asia Online

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