Greenhouse kicks out 1Seg TV tuner in USB fashion

While we've seen plenty of TV tuning love for the UK / US crowd, it's about time we saw a new rendition to pick up those delightful digital terrestrial broadcasts while cruising through Tokyo. Greenhouse has busted out a silicon-wrapped 1Seg TV tuner for the Japanese market, but upped the ante on the typical USB stick design. By offering 360-degree rotation, you shouldn't have any problems blocking up spare ports while tuning on your laptop, and it also includes a magnetic base / extension cord to place the antenna at the faraway sweet spot. Aside from pulling in ISDB-T signals, this device also touts an electronic program guide and USB 2.0 / 1.1 connectivity, but unfortunately encodes the content as it's recorded so it can only be played back on the PC in which it was brought in on. So if the inability to view your shows on any other device than the one you used to tune with (somehow) doesn't faze you, you can pick up the GH-1ST-U2K now for ¥10,800 ($94).

[Via Akihabara News]

[GJP303 @ Nov 28th 2006 8:29PM]

nicely priced, im not going to spend more than 94.01 on a tv tuner. Crap, theres tax.... anyway FIRST POST!!!

[Matt @ Nov 28th 2006 8:35PM]

Oh wow you got the first post who cares. What do u get from making yourself sound like an idiot? You are now hated by all engadget users. Please leave engadget and never poison us with that first post garbage.

[David @ Nov 29th 2006 12:34AM]

I hope that was satire. Remember, flamers burn in hell! :)

[A|Z @ Nov 28th 2006 8:39PM]

at #2: do you need some therapy buddy? stop being so hostile.
anywho, does anyone else know if this will work in the americas?

[Matt @ Nov 28th 2006 8:41PM]

Hmm yeah I did lay that comment on a bit strong but im just tired of people doing that its just plain pointless

[Paul @ Nov 28th 2006 9:38PM]

"Oh wow you got the first post who cares. What do u get from making yourself sound like an idiot? You are now hated by all engadget users. Please leave engadget and never poison us with that first post garbage."

Oh wow you bashed the first poster. What do you get from making yourself look like an idiot? You have not only contributed nothing beneficial to the topic but you have indeed paved the way for a severe thread hijacking. You are now hated by all Engaget users, and most of the users from Slashdot as well. Please unplug your computer and never turn it on ever again.

[Matt @ Nov 28th 2006 9:49PM]

wow im special!!! engadget and slashdot!!

[anthonysimilion @ Nov 28th 2006 9:54PM]

No, the US and Canada use ATSC, where as Japan (and this device) uses ISDB-T.

[Bad Moon Rising @ Nov 28th 2006 10:24PM]

The listed price is probably tax included, which is requried in Japan. Anyway, sorry, it won't work in the US.

[Ceralor @ Nov 29th 2006 12:05AM]

All y'all shut up. It may encode it so that only the computer that recorded it can watch it, but as history has shown, all of these have ways of being undone.

[par @ Nov 29th 2006 5:43AM]

If this thing can get a good digital signal from that little antenna then it sure looks fine. Oh and I agree about that first post crap getting old.

...anyway FIFTH POST!! yeeeeee

[ronaldo @ Nov 29th 2006 9:55AM]

on a sidenote, a did a google translation of the specs on this thing. could this be right???

"Picture size: 320�180"
"Animated picture frame rate: 15fps"
"Animated picture bit rate: 416kbps"
"Animated picture coded form: MPEG-4/H.264"

Even in h264, that seems pretty pathetic, i am wrong?

http://www.rakuda-net.com/gh_1segu.phtml

[GJP303 @ Nov 29th 2006 3:42PM]

Ok, so this is the 5th try at posting this comment (keeps on crashing when i press send). I'm sorry Engadget users for the first post that you had to suffer reading and I am especially sorry to Matt who was greatly affected by this post. I am completly and utterly sorry that this happened. I'm off to cry in my little corner again because of this. Again Matt I am sorry that 'em post got posted. Not only is the first post thing getting old, the other things said in it were totally irrelevant (except for the 2 words where i said "nicely priced". (this is another post that could be taken in as pointless but somethings must be said)

[gabridl @ Dec 13th 2006 5:55AM]

I don't know why you are all fighting. You should band together to lynch the author of the article. "Kicks out" and "busts out" is annoying. But is "on the PC in which it was brought in on" even English?