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SONY PSX Sony launched its PSX game console for the Japanese market. The new product is a personal video recorder (PVR) with an internal hard drive. The PSX can also record DVDs.

Sony PSX launched in Japan

Geartest.com Staff
October 7, 2003.

Sony launched its new PSX multimedia game console today at the CEATAC trade show in Japan.

The PSX features a built-in TV tuner, a personal video recorder (PVR) with a hard drive, a DVD recorder and PlayStation 2 (PS2) game console all in one device.

Pricing was announced at ¥78,900 ($719) for the DESR-5000 model with a 160 GB hard disk, while the ¥99,800 ($899) DESR-7000 model contains a 250 GB hard drive.

The PSX console is compatible with the DVD-R/-RW/+RW formats and supports the JPEG, TIFF and GIF image formats.

For music lovers Sony has included ATRAC3 and MP3 audio file compatibility.

The PSX comes with an 100 Base/TX Ethernet high speed networking support and a USB 1.1 port.

The new product is seen as an interim step between the current PS2 game console and the third-generation PS3 console that will have Sony's cell microprocessor at its core.