Nokia Enters PVR Market

Daaelar writes "Nokia has just recently announced their entrance into the PVR market with the realease of their Mediamaster 260 S. It apparently has PVR capabilities as well as the ability to receive small images via Bluetooth for viewing on a larger screen, i.e. your television. It also includes some built-in games, as well as a feature to record from a digital camera or camcorder."

Do one thing, do it well

[Dancin_Santa]

Nokia is a phone company. Just because they can buy some cheap Taiwanese crap and slap their logo on it doesn't mean that it has any of the Nokia quality that we are programmed to expect.

Re:TiVo

[Anonymous Coward]

it apparently can play video games

Like the Amiga?

it apparently has a framebuffer

Like the Amiga?

It apparently hooks up to your TV

Like the Amiga?

(sorry...not dissing the Tivo, but why are Slashdot readers dissing competition in one area, (PVRs) while whining about the lack of it in another? (Microsoft)

Re:"My fellow Americans--"

[droleary]

Ah, the satisfaction of putting the Commander in Chief on hold.

Then you had better buy a TiVo, because Nokia isn't shipping these in the US.

Re:Bluetooth mobile phone cameras

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, they seem like a perfect match:

Your 36" TV resolution 640x480

Your mobile phone camera - same 640x480

Re:The important info - how many tuners?

[mog007]

My first real computer only had a 120 MHz CPU, and eight (8) mb of RAM... and it ran DOOM....

Re:Entire Mediamaster Product Line

[Bushcat]

Software tends to get developed for new models as they are released. See Linux-based software for the 9000 series here [xs4all.nl]. Most of the stuff is for Windows (see here [tripod.com], for example) and written in Europe. Also here [wafer-card.com]. "MMedit" is a good word to Google on.

Re:TiVo

[sprayNwipe]

True, but you'll notice that this is being released in countries that don't have access to TiVo. Not all of us have access to cool stuff like commercially-available PVR's yet.

Re:I hope this is better than their firewall offer

[canning]

This can happen to anything. I ordered an APC UPS for a data center and this thing was a mess. First it had the wrong badging on it (said 8kVA instead of 4kVA) and after the electrician wired the data center for 8kVA i noticed the mistake. The elctircian wouldn't hook it up as 4kVA because of electric code issues. We had to ship it back and after much deliberation (APC says this never happens) they shipped us the 8kVA UPS at no extra cost. The only problem was that the 8kVA model they sent us was dead and APC was shocked. They said this never happens. The third they shipped was alright.

At my present company we use Nokia firewalls / checkpoint VPN software and we've never had a problem with them.

This type of stuff can happen to any company.

Re:I hope this is better than their firewall offer

[haggar]

OK, well, this might have been your experience, but to be honest, I know of much more people who had an excellent experience with Nokia routers. Some said that they are considered some of the best available, in fact. I wouldn't vouch for one or the other opinion, but fact is, you are the first case of nonworking equipment that I have ever heard of, in contrast with tens of positive feedback.

Re:Convergance again?

[astrosmurf]

Wasn't this one of the problems in the dot-bomb? Haven't companies learned that it's better to be really good at one thing, and stay out of markets for which they are not suited, rather than be mediocre and lose money hand over fist? Not that I have a problem with companies trying to innovate, but I just wonder how wise this move is for them.

You are so right!!! Just imagine how much better off nokia would have been, had they just continued making tires and stayed out of this silly phone business.

Re:Knowing Nokia....

[jedrek]

Say what? Nokia pretty much owns the european mobile market for one simple reason: they've spent the last 5 years making some of the best mobile phones on the market. They were doing pretty well until they released the 3110, 5110 and 6110 - after that, they just took over.

Their biggest selling points: ease of use and battery life. You might not remember what mobile phones were like before the Navi-Key. Most phones had one button to connect, another to disconnect, a menu button, a help button, etc. Nokia took that and broke it down to 4 buttons total. With that and their large screens, interchangable logos, etc. they took the market over. Even tough their lead isn't what it used to be, I have many friend who won't buy any other model. Nokia still has 35%+ of a very, very fractured international market.

Hell, that's why salespeople who sell non-Nokia phones get bonuses in may stores.