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Pace Unveils Dreamcast-based 'Home Gateway'
Back at the beginning of February, when Sega first announced that it was pulling out of Dreamcast production, UK-based set-top box maker Pace emerged as the company that would build on the technology Sega left behind, incorporating it, it said, into a 'home gateway' product.
Pace last week announced the unveiling of the new PVR Home Gateway With Integrated Games Technology. All the usual set-top box options for cable television are included along with the ability to "timeshift" television TiVo-style by pausing it then continuing from the same point (with the programmes recorded then streamed from a built in 40GB hard disk).
The other job for the hard disk is to store games, downloaded from the cable service on a pay-per-play or pay-per-time basis. The HDD acts as a "games jukebox", apparently, and could (in the future we'd guess) be "wirelessly downloaded to a portable, hand-held device for game playing". The box does not give Dreamcast owners the ability to insert GD-ROMs and play all their old classics, but as it's built on the same technology, we can be assured that several things will be true: it will line the pockets of Sega handsomely, it will line the pockets of PowerVR developer Imagination Technologies handsomely, and games will be able to take advantage of Dreamcast-like graphic and gameplay options.
The Home Gateway will be on display at the Cable 2001 national cable show in Chicago this week, along with various other devices.
SOURCE: Eurogamer.net, Computer Video Games.
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