Sony PlayTV - PS3 Freeview PVR add-on
 

http://threespeech.com/blog/?p=828


Looks good.


Not sure if I'll bother with it (unless it's cheap), as I already have a PVR (SkyHD).


The PSP Remote Play feature looks good too... Use your PSP while out & about to remotely access the PS3 & watch live/recorded TV.

Re: Sony PlayTV - PS3 Freeview PVR add-on
 

I agree it does look good. Been looking forward to it but the price tag is not small. Play did have it on pre-order for £99 but they seemed to remove the price now but the links still there. http://www.play.com/Games/PlayStatio...V/Product.html

Heres a simple videos breakdown of how it will work http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAuWAgZeJoI

Sony Play TV
 

Hello. i have a question that has remained unanswered in my head since the 1st March and i think it's time to get an answer. Firstly you may not need to know what play tv is to answer my question but it would help. does anyone know how much memory, say a 1 hour program, would take up on my PS3's harddrive? please be aware that it also records in hd. i need to know if i should buy a bigger harddrive...
thanks very much

Re: Sony Play TV
 

As far as I know nothing been announced about space usage yet but I will check around. There are many diffrent factors as to how much space will be used e.g. format, compression, program length etc etc.

What model do you have 40gb or 60gb ? do you find your HD space being used up alot now ? Do you plan on keeping certain programs for a long time ?

Re: Sony Play TV
 

I wouldn't believe all the HD stuff about it... there is no HD Freeview & won't be for a while yet... don't think the DVB-T2 standard has even been finalised yet, so there's no way I can see that Play TV would work with the (eventual future) HD Freeview.


For a rough estimate of HDD usage for recordings, I guess it would be similar to e.g. Sky+, where an 80GB PVR3 can record roughly 40 hours of content... so 2GB per hour.

Re: Sony PlayTV - PS3 Freeview PVR add-on
 

ok thanks a lot you two! i have a 60gb version

Re: Sony PlayTV - PS3 Freeview PVR add-on
 

i would like to get one if the price is right ! be a cool addition to my ps3 !

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I read somewere and I think play.com had it at £99.99. It was announced to be between $129 and $200 and since we get ripped all the time I am guessing the £99.99 marks about right. Everywere seems to of pulled the price now though so cant say for sure. Guess we'll find out soon enough.

Re: Sony PlayTV - PS3 Freeview PVR add-on
 

Amazon had it listed as recently as last week - with a price (£69.99) & a date (July something 2008).

Checked again today... price & date have been removed.


If it comes out for £99, I think it's too much, considering the price of standalone Freeview PVRs.


Also a pity the PS3 doesn't have any rear USB ports... having this thing permanently plugged into the front would be annoying.

Re: Sony PlayTV - PS3 Freeview PVR add-on
 

Think amazon is trying to fool us all m8 heres some more info of amazon guessing again.

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/04/21/...ut-not-really/

Re: Sony PlayTV - PS3 Freeview PVR add-on
 

yeah i saw that on amazon. 31st of July and £59.99. pretty good. i will still buy it at £99.99 if that's going to be the price but it would be so much better if it was £40 cheaper, ha ha. when they took the price and date off their site, the date said october 2008!! don't know if it's there now but that's a bit late..!!

Play TV + PlayStation 3 TV Tuner
 

Re: Play TV + PlayStation 3 TV Tuner
 

I think you may be looking at an old article because sony has said that although you will be able to remote play through the PSP you wont be able to tranfser anything.

Its a shame and I was looking forward to this but since our area has no digital signal yet then I would have to wait a year to make any use of it. I was looking forward to getting it to :(

Re: Play TV + PlayStation 3 TV Tuner
 

I got the info from Play.com so they need to update there site as its miss leading. I was going to buy but wont now.

Be wicked if you could do that.

Re: Play TV + PlayStation 3 TV Tuner
 

Play are probably using the old specs then and do need to update it. My guess is this is what sony wanted to do it but simply cant get the rights to do it or are worries about more piracy issues.