Gaijin Gamer’s instant guide to… Japanese TV shows worth recording via PS3 Torne

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Let's record Japanese digital terrestrial telly!

Going some way towards making up for the other day’s GT5 disappointment, Sony yesterday announced a new gadget that will enable PS3 owners in Japan to record digital terrestrial TV to their PS3s’ hard drives and/or external hard disks. It’s called the “Torne” and it’s due out in March at 9,980 yen.

Even this announcement has its own in-built let-downs, though, because for whatever reason the device is not capable of/willing to record BS or CS broadcasts. So this really is just for vanilla Japanese telly programs. Still, let’s look on the bright side – you’ll be able to record and enjoy the likes of these gems at your leisure:

リンカーン, aka “Lincoln”, aka one of Japan’s legendary Downtown-fronted comedy variety programs (set your Torne to record on Tuesdays at 10pm!)

松本人志の○○な話, aka “Hitoshi Matsumoto’s ○○ Talk”, aka an extremely funny discussion among comedians about the things they like, scary experiences they’ve had, etc. (Tuesdays at 11pm!)

One Response to “Gaijin Gamer’s instant guide to… Japanese TV shows worth recording via PS3 Torne”

1. KP says:

   March 10, 2010 at 3:22 am

   If it only records “vanilla” TV programs why the B-Cas card slot?

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