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The Opera application spans both screens of the DS

The 1seg tuner looks bulky from the protype, but implementation is still almost a year away
The Nintendo DS has been a popular handheld game console worldwide -- and it looks like it will only get better

Nintendo DS owners have several new things to look forward to -- Nintendo yesterday announced a digital TV tuner and the Opera web browser for wireless web browsing at the Nintendo DS Conference.  Opera will be available later this year in June and will cost users $32 USD.  The top screen will show a selected view of a web site while the lower screen will show users an overview of a web site.  Users will be able to write words for searches on the touch panel.   

At the conference, Nintendo also hinted at a TV tuner for the Nintendo DS.  The new digital TV tuner card will be available to Japanese users sometime before the end of 2006 and is designed specifically for a new service called 1seg.  The small peripheral card will allow Nintendo users to tune in to watch digital video through the included software.  We'll have to wait for several weeks before more details are released about the tuner card and the 1seg service. 

Unfortunately for the majority of our readers, Nintendo has not announced plans to make the Opera web browser available outside of Japan (yet).  For the brave of heart, feel free to view the translated slides from the Nintend DS Conference. 

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Reminds me of Game Gear and TurboExpress
By Lyman42 on 2/16/2006 12:08:29 PM , Rating: 2
I remember Sega Game Gear had a tv tuner option. It was around $100 and was pretty big. When I was young I always wanted the TurboExpress because it had a nice screen and the tv tuner option too. That was over ten years ago, funny how some things never change.




By CZroe on 2/16/2006 2:41:37 PM , Rating: 2
The GameGear TV Tuner was only compatible with the first-gen GameGears. The technology wasn't ready. Example:
The GameGear was a souped-up Sega Master System and was even capable of playing MS games. The MS was NOT designed for portability or low power consumptions.
The LCD display was back-lit with a cathode tube light that was prone to blowing. It was also very high-voltage and produced heat.
The unti took eight Aalkaline batteries and couldn't even operate with Heavy-Duty batteries (Battery light would indicate low as soon as you turned it on, unit would go off shorly). The official battery pack was a giant external NiCd battery that would develop memory and become useless in no time. No LiIon, no NiMH.
The thing had less buttons than an original Gameboy! There was nothing new or revolutionary made for it. Having no unique or portable characteristics, every game could just as easily have been a console game.

As much as it sucked, I still wanted one bad :D


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By bbomb on 2/16/2006 9:59:53 AM , Rating: 1
Why is this making news if none of the features will be of any use to anyone outside of Japan? Every webpage out there uses Flash and Javascript now.




RE: a
By Questar on 2/16/2006 3:01:38 PM , Rating: 2
The browser will be available in the US.


well
By Lifted on 2/16/06, Rating: 0
RE: well
By Josh7289 on 2/16/2006 8:23:27 AM , Rating: 2
Playing mp3's is the job of the Play-Yan. The browser will not be able to open PDF's, and it doesn't support JavaScript or Flash. The TV Tuner will not be released outside of Japan, since we do not have any 1seg networks, and I cannot see us getting any. The browser comes with a 4MB, I believe, RAM expansion through the GBA cart, to give the DS a total of 8MB of RAM. Nintendo does not plan to use this RAM expansion for any games. That's all for now. There are other little tidbits of information...


Interesting
By SGTPan on 2/16/2006 8:19:11 AM , Rating: 2
Being able to browse and email wirelessly, with a total cost of less than $200? Thats pretty cool. If it does those things alone pretty well, it could have a whole new user base.




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