Sony has announced that the PlayStation 5 will have DVR functionality in Japan through a new application that will work with its Nasne tuners. The application will be called Torne (pronounced to-ru-ne) and should be available later this year.
Torne was originally a TV tuner add-on for the PS3 launched in 2010 and allowed you to save broadcast programs to your console’s hard drive and transfer them to a PSP or PS Vita. He was followed by Nasne, who added his own storage and functioned more like a NAS drive, with recordings available through a mobile app.
Sony stopped selling the Nasne in 2019, but last year the Japanese peripheral manufacturer Buffalo announced that it would take control of the product and launch versions of the Buffalo brand, with the first models ready for launch this spring. The new Nasne still looks like a PS3, with only a Buffalo logo on it; Buffalo is doubling internal storage to 2 TB, however, and tripling external storage capacity to 6 TB. It will go on sale later this month for 29,800 yen (~ $ 270).