How good is the Nintendo WanSeg TV turner for NDS?

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 4:15 pm

Was browsing the net and stumbled upon a cool NDS accessory that turns any first-gen DS, DS-lite or DSi into a fully functional TV.

Here's the official site that gives more info about it:

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/unsj/index.html

Apparently, it is an official 1st-party Japanese NDS accessory for use in Japan at the current time with a price tag of 6,800 yen and a street release date of 11/20/2007. Sadly, Nintendo of America hasn't officially distributed it for the USA NDS market user base.
With the upcoming conversion to all-digital TV broadcast set on February 17th, 2008 for the entire USA region, it seems that this particular WanSeg TV Turner DS device will be rendered useless (unless a RF input or composite A/V inputs are incorporated into it to use with the digital TV convertor boxes for the USA region WanSeg production models). Then off-the-air reception wouldn't be a problem after that particular date. ^_~

Does anyone own one of these cool WanSeg TV turners on their DS/DSlite/DSi handhelds and how is the reception on it?

You might recall when NEC first released it's Turbo Vision TV Turner Adapter for the NEC TurboExpress handheld. It came with a MSRP of $99.99 USD back in 1991. Only certain select markets in the USA sold it for the pricey $299.99 TE back in the day. It does have a mini stereo input jack to get both composite video and mono sound into the TE through the use of the NEC TV turner adapter. Interesting but very pricey little accessory for it's time. I've managed to get video content piped from a Supergun setup into my TE and it works like a charm. ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

pixelcorps · Post by **pixelcorps** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:03 am

1seg is for japanese mobile phone TV.. if you're not in japan or korea, it's useless.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 5:52 pm

Thanks for the heads up on that, pixelcorps. So it would be useless in the USA then. I can see why NOA doesn't carry/stock it for the USA DS market. ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

pixelcorps · Post by **pixelcorps** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 7:32 pm

Yeah, if you bought one for use in the US, you're buying a doorstop.