21st November 2004, 5:27 PM
I would assume as much, like most portable TVs, that it is in fact wireless.
I don't however get exactly why it requires it's own batteries. Again, the GG TV Tuner needed no outside power source, the cartridge slot was plenty.
Looked at the pic... having played a DS myself in a store earlier today, I must say that TV tuner is REALLY oversized. I mean, again, the GG tuner was actually rather small. The thing is actually about the size of the E-card reader. This thing is a monster. There are plenty of portable TVs that are MUCH smaller. Why exactly IS this thing so big and needing it's own batteries? All in all, it's like they just WANT terrible design for this thing. This is a luxery accesory anyway, they might as well spend the extra money (and charge the extra money) to make it of decent quality, which would just involve shrinking it and making it run off the limited power provided by the cartridge slot.
I don't however get exactly why it requires it's own batteries. Again, the GG TV Tuner needed no outside power source, the cartridge slot was plenty.
Looked at the pic... having played a DS myself in a store earlier today, I must say that TV tuner is REALLY oversized. I mean, again, the GG tuner was actually rather small. The thing is actually about the size of the E-card reader. This thing is a monster. There are plenty of portable TVs that are MUCH smaller. Why exactly IS this thing so big and needing it's own batteries? All in all, it's like they just WANT terrible design for this thing. This is a luxery accesory anyway, they might as well spend the extra money (and charge the extra money) to make it of decent quality, which would just involve shrinking it and making it run off the limited power provided by the cartridge slot.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)