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CNET Tech Review: Sony debuts PSP2 (aka NGP)

2011-01-28
this week on the CNET tech review feast your eyes on Sony's long anticipated next generation portable whatever it's called a new radio app for the mixtape set will count down the top technologies destined for the garbage heap and go behind the scenes of the most popular Apple centric show in the history of CNET it's all coming up right now hi everyone I'm Molly wood and welcome to the CNET tech review where we collect our hottest videos of the week and tell you what's good and what's bad in the world of tech plus offer our unique tech wisdom in the form of the bottom line let's get started with the good this week in Tokyo Sony announced the long rumored and finally confirmed PlayStation Portable or PSP 2 although for some reason they're calling it the Sony next generation portable or NGP I don't know anyway our friends from GameSpot we're on hand for the big event and here's what they were able to find out hey everybody this is Ricardo Torres from GameSpot comm here with the first look at the NGP which most people understand is the PlayStation Portable 2 or the successor to the PlayStation Portable we have it next to a PSP go which is the latest version of the hardware that's been on the market for a while for those to be that are wondering the NGP is considerably beefier than the original PSP you're looking at a 5 inch LED touchscreen in fact the device has also a touchpad on the back in addition to two analog sticks as you can see there on the back it is a return to the have the brick form factor of the original PSP which you also see is the buttons that everyone knows and loves from the original PSP but now you have two analog sticks in addition the device is going to not use the UMD media format they are using a new cartridge based media format for games in addition the device much like we've seen on the original PSP is going to support digital downloads the device has Internet connectivity in addition it now has in addition to Wi-Fi it now has 3G which will allow a variety of new features that are being implemented on the device that are very social lazy man this one no word yet on pricing or when we can expect to see the MGP in the u.s. beyond in time for the holidays and on a side note Google searches for Prince's backing band the new power generation have been going through the roofs and Sony's announcement now to date myself even more remember listening to the radio and trying to record your favorite songs but then you'd always miss the beginning or the DJ would talk over the end and mess it all up well this new app called tune in radio will let you relive that frustration as you record tunes from radio stations all over the world welcome to tap that app I'm Jason Parker and this is the show where we cover the hottest apps in the mobile space this week we're showing off a streaming radio app for the iOS that just might be the best in its category it's called tuning radio and it works on both your iPhone and iPad with an easy to navigate interface that makes it a snap to find stations you like powered by the radio time website tuning radio offers more than 40,000 stations to choose from around the globe and you can even use your iPhones GPS to find your favorite local stations with all this audio content it's fortunate that the interface offers a number of ways to drill down to exactly what you want to listen to right from the launch page you can browse local stations choose categories like sports or talk radio and you can browse by language just to name a few like other radio streaming apps browsing the music category gives you an enormous list of genres to choose from each with a long list of options around the world with your local choices at the top once you find a few stations you like you can easily bookmark them from the station page so they show up in your bookmarks list for later listening the station page also gives you album art for the current song the ability to play the Last FM radio station for the band and numerous options to view more information about the current station while listening to a station if you like a particular song you can pause and rewind live radio like a DVR then record the song from the beginning tune and Radio keeps all your recordings in a special section so you can listen to recorded favorites later one of the best things about tuning radio is that it works in tandem with radio time comm this means that once you sign up for a free account you can save favorite station streams on your home computer then access them from your iOS device you can even schedule radio time to record a morning show for example that you'll later have access to on your iPhone tune in radio costs $1.99 at the iTunes App Store but with 40,000 streaming radio stations the ability to record music and handy tools that work with the radio time website it's pretty easy to recommend you tap this app that's it for this week's show if you have any suggestions send them to tap that app at cnet.com I'm Jason Parker I will see you next week I'm gonna have to get that and then I'll be able to hear all those calls to the dedication lines that I've been missing they still do that right Rick Dees the weekly top 40 okay this next section is for all you computer gearheads out there first up rich Brown shows us a new luxury gaming rig that will set you back almost 5000 bones and then don't bestows his editors choice award on a mammoth Nazz enclosure take a look hi I'm rich brown senior editor for cnet.com today were gonna take a look at the brand new Falcon Northwest Mach 5 this giant tower system is a high-end gaming desktop it cost about 4,800 bucks and it's one of the fastest gaming systems we've seen it comes with Intel's brand new core i7 2670 expect for this price it also comes with a brand-new case from Falcon Northwest Mach 5 line so we'll go over some of the details of that too so as you can see this is a very tall system it comes in or about two feet tall and it weighs almost 75 pounds rip up the front door here and you can see it's got pretty much a basic layout there's a blu-ray drive here couple USB ports down here well as up top you get a few more USB and audio connections there's no media card reader in this build but you do have the option and you can figure that on Falcons website so go right inside the system you'll see this is definitely not your standard PC build by rotating the motherboard 90 degrees inside of the case you get an up venting air flow situation that means it's a lot cooler inside for the hot graphics cards as well as the overclocked liquid-cooled CPU you see here that Orient's the ports on the top of the case and you can run the cables through a slot here plug them in and there's a cap you put on and it kind of makes a really tiny cable situation as well as giving you a thermal benefit now Falcon Northwest is not the first vendor that we've seen with the system like this main gears shift had this pretty much same outline in a very similar case regardless this is out there we think it's a cool design and it probably makes a lot of sense for higher-end gaming pcs so going to the components we mentioned this system has an Intel Core i7 2600 Intel's brand new Sandy Bridge processors and is overclockable 4.6 gigs in this system but we've heard that managers can get up to five gigahertz or higher considering this is one of the first core i7s and supporting motherboards to hit the market we sort of understand that Falcon wasn't able to go quite as high as possible with this system that said we hope that future systems in this price range from Falcon or any other vendor really push hard on the overclocking in order to justify the cost the reason is the core i7 is so affordable you get $2,500 systems that have the same application performance you're gonna pay this much for a PC you're gonna want to see that extra performance edson justify the cost that's not to say that Falcon didn't push hard to make this system worth the price you get to high end GeForce GTX 580 graphics cards here as well as to solid-state boot drives as well as a separate one terabyte storage hard drive here Falcon has put 16 gigs of memory that's some of the highest we've seen in a desktop down here you've got a thousand watt power supply and that actually should let you add a third graphics card to this PC if you want to add one after purchase now we mentioned that main gear has a similar design to this Falcons primary innovation is this separator between the CPU and the graphics card compartment according to Falcon the separator gives you better thermal management by isolating the graphics cards now our only real issue with the design of the system comes with the tool free hard drive base each of these slots pops out you get a cage here where you can install a hard drive now the design is supposed to be tool free but the problem is Falcon didn't mount the power of data cables behind each Bay that means not only they have to run the cables yourself but if you want to pop in the drive it's gonna involve sort of a messy cable operation and you may even have to take the far end of the case off in order to really get things connected finally as I mentioned earlier because of the rotated motherboard all the ports are on top of the case you get USB 3 firewire eSATA two kinds of digital audio DVI plus HDMI along with standard 7.1 audio outs so overall the Mach 5 is one of the fastest pcs we've seen in our lab and the new case makes that also one of the most innovative we'd encourage you to shop around if you're looking for a new PC in this price range featuring Intel's new CPU mostly though this system lives up to our performance and value expectations for PC close to 5000 bucks so I'm Rex Brown this is the Falcon Northwest Mach 5 if you're looking for the best networks or server for your home or small office you're watching the right video hello my name is dongho and this is the distinction 1511 + na server from Synology the first nasa of 2011 that earns our editors choice award visit a firebase server meaning it can host up to 5 SATA hard drives the server support virtually any 3.5 inch SATA hard drive on the market in fact is one of the few that can handle the new 3 terabyte drive with all this way it can offer up to 15 terabytes of storage space now the front facing hard drive bay are very easily accessible you can just unlock the latch and pull the Troy out too quickly service the hard drive you can even do this without turning the server off as long as you want to replace only one hard drive at a time the server support many red configurations such as raid 5 raid 0 and so on the best rate that you want to use however is a Synology hybrid rate which is similar to raid 5 but also allows for dynamically increasing the rates capacity without having to build it from scratch now if 15 terabytes not enough for you the server come with plenty of peripheral ports on the back here you'll fight to is at our port and for USB 2.0 ports to add even more storage space the USB ports can also be used to host other devices such as printers on the back you can see it so big ventilation fans that are quiet for how big they are and not one but su Gigabit Ethernet ports these two ports can work together either for fancy purpose or to increase the throughput speed the best things about the dis station 15 years when plus and those that cannot be seen from the appearance the server runs a very robust firmware that can be managed over the web interface the interface is very organized in advance much like that of an operating system this makes managing the servers vast amount of features an editor for advanced users the server has many unique features such as the ability to host up to 20 IP cameras with its comprehensive surveillance station which is better than most civil and DVRs on the market on top of that its performance is the best we've seen the server is available now for around nine hundred dollars with our storage for more information on whether or not is worth the investment check out the full review at CENTCOM once again my name is dongho and this has been the first look at the distinction 1511 plus Nass server from technology so even though rich knocked the Mach 5 for its hard drive cage design you can probably avoid having to deal with it if you just get the sine ology DiskStation 15 terabytes that is just plain hot and while you figure out how you're gonna fill up all that space besides ripping your entire DVD collection of course let's take a quick break but we'll be right back with more tech review right after this welcome back to the CNET tech review our weekly video digest of all things good and bad we've seen here at CNET TV now without any further ado let's see what's happening in the bed by show of hands how many of you got a stack of blu-ray movies or even a blu-ray player for Christmas this year well according to Brian Cooley you might as well just throw them in the trash let's check out his top 5 list of doomed technologies to find out why techies sit around picking winning technologies like drinkers pick horses just their thing I'm Brian Cooley with my top five picks of doomed technologies don't feel good about these if you do you're gambling with the grocery money don't bet on them number five blu-ray oh I hear you blu-ray is already a good sized hit but as it tries to equal the impact of its parent DVD it's getting taken out at the knees by online streaming to the television even faster than many of us would have guessed a year ago I think blu-ray falls somewhere north of laserdisc bought around paragraph 9 of the history of home video number 4 eBook readers yeah Amazon won't stop telling us the Kindle is their number one best-selling most wished for most gifted product what they don't tell us is how many have they sold estimates are between one and a half and three million since November of 2007 and that's by the way the most popular eReader out there well Apple sells that many iPads in a couple of months and it hasn't been on the market nearly that long a tablet is not a perfect reader but we're also not a nation of bookworms either for most of us the tablets gonna be good enough especially since our real love is video and the web readers their niche for life number three 3d TV yeah it's the newest thing on the list but I'm still nervous about it early word from retailers is that it's proving to be a tough sell blame it on those glasses and the fact that they are proprietary to your brand of TV also the mess of standards and most of the stuff we watch not being made better by 3d I'll give this one the stink of a carnival trick in 2011 I need to see glasses get standardized displays standardization as well either frame sequencing or polarization and tons of content that is meaningfully presented in 3d maybe I'll be convinced number 2 wireless hdmi this one's bubbled up here and there with various manufacturers and mostly in proprietary form it's never taken root I'm just not sure consumers care yes cabling your home system the first is a pain but then you're done for years and yes that wire crawling up the wall to your TV is ugly but so is your living room and you're gonna need a power cord anyway we're not a nation of interior design buffs so a technology to eliminate a snarly mess of cables isn't gonna find much love now before I take you to my number one doomed technology here are five that have emerged as sure bets over the course of 2010 and well into the years ahead these guys you can take to the bank okay my number one technology that just feels like it's dead is Wi-Fi in cars Wow seem like such a great idea a year or so ago but now we have so many 3G smartphones 3G tablets 3G notebooks and 3G my 5s and USB dongles that the idea of a 3G powered Wi-Fi translator hotspot bolted into the car to connect devices that already have 3G just doesn't get out of a garage thanks for watching folks will check in late 2011 and see how I fared on these predictions i'm brian cool Wow come on let's not be too hasty I mean if you haven't been able to part with that box of VHS tapes in your attic yet your blu-ray movies should probably come in handy for a while I'm sure all right moving along it's time to check out this week's bottom line now that the Verizon iPhone announcement and Steve Jobs medical leave are behind us there hasn't been a lot of other news in the Apple world lately so what better time to go behind the scenes of the Apple byte to find out how Brian Tong in the game put the show together each week so you want to know what we do here you know how we make the sausages seen at TV well tell you what the first ingredient is dedication I'm the first one here at work every day I can't remember the last time someone was here before me and all I do is I wake up I check out the news check out all the latest information because it's really up to me to provide you guys with the stories that you care about and you guys do bars do the job so we have this meeting it's a mandatory meeting that Brian says we can brainstorm our ideas he doesn't have any good ideas they're all lame and the t-pain one was totally my idea he stole it but if you ask him he'll deny it paper toss how's my idea I food you think he could have come up with that idea oh yeah love link I was all mine I shot that thing well wait a minute no the last scene that was Brian I just really like to create a safe place where every idea is a good idea no there is no I in team you've heard that but if you switch the letters around it spells meet and meets the number one ingredient in sausage our son Brian is very special to me because when he was a baby I dropped him on his head yeah special very special I'm a professional I've been doing this kind of work for years the lights the backdrop everything has to be perfect I'm so excited to be part of the scene that team it's it's been like a dream like come true that's I've been watching you see that since I was kid and like I'm such a big fan of the Apple bite I can't even put it into words sometime you know once you clean up that last fun and often my brown ones next I'm working with professionals here and I wouldn't expect anything less I have the utmost confidence in my team pretty good in a lot of ways Brian Tong is great to work with because of his addiction to the teleprompter as long as you put the words in there he will be able to regurgitate them alright let's go guys that's a wrap yeah it doesn't really make sense Brian's been doing this for a long time and he just hasn't really gotten better welcome to the Apple buy for all the good and bad inside about both guess what's coming the next few months I guess it starts with I don't think you understand I see Brian when I walk in in the morning every shoe I have to stare at him while I edit every time I turn a corner he's just there hey dude I almost missed you want to go get something to eat today let's go production-wise I'm kind of like I'm kind of a one-man band yeah I shoot edit that's one thing I'm really proud of you know I just get the job done how we doing over there bonito on track mr. Nunez I'm part of such an amazing team here and like they have respect for me they appreciate my work and I feel like I can contribute so much sometimes you get this feeling like yeah I was made to do this I was born to do this and I just feel like our entire team pours their heart and soul in this project and we all take a lot of pride in what we do yeah I feel really lucky down to work here on the Apple bite all my life you know I've had a dream of being an action photographer and using that camera to capture sports and athletics and moving objects and exciting adventurous things and now look at me taking pictures of Brian Tong pointing at an iPhone week after week month after month Oh what have I become I just gotta say I'm I'm really proud we did a lot this year and uh I'm happy to represent for my team for the last 20 years I've worked as a professional television news photographer I have been around the world I've been around the country I've seen people and so much pain so much misery and I can't even begin to tell you how hard it is to work Brian Tom at the end of day it's just great to watch a final product that all of us can be proud of and just say to ourselves as a team as one group yeah I did something special what's happening I'm Brian Tong and welcome to a little show we called the Alpha by for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple the bottom line this week I'm speechless all I can say is poor bonito that is not right we should really call HR about that all right that's gonna do it for us this week everybody but come back next time for some exciting smartphone news on our brand new scene at tech review I wonder what smartphone that could be until then there are tons of great videos available every day at scene at tv.com I'll see you next time and thank you for watching you
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