Sony have just released an £80 DVR/digital telly tuner for the Playstation 3 (only £60
Can Sony really have done this on purpose? Can it be possible? Or will it just get patched?
Any recorded footage is slapped in a Library menu, automatically tagged with the programme name and description. Hit X on it and PlayTV runs the recording. Again, nice and simple.
Or, brilliantly, you can export videos to your PS3's XMB menu as MPEG-4 video (despite rumours suggesting the feature had been removed). From there you can use it like a normal file - watch it on your PS3, put it on PC, transfer it to your PSP... whatever you like.
Assuming you have an MPEG-4 capable player, of course, but still. Also, "Granny" in the comments says,
Er, no you can't. It exports it in the broadcast MPEG-2 format.
Even better!
This makes me want to buy a PS3 too, along with LBP. It's going to be an expensive xmas.
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From sony of all people? I can hardly beleive it!
It reads like the tuner is built in and it's standard def analog - giving it a limited lifetime given that (at least terrestrial) broadcasts here in the US are going all digital next year, as I understand it.
If they *do* support digital, then there's a question of whether they'd choose to do things like ignore the broadcast flag/copyright stuff some people put in their broadcasts, if I understand correctly.
Posted by: Kim | September 04, 2008 at 18:53
Kim - Lots of places in the UK have no analogue broadcast, and 99% of all TVs here have digital tuners built in (freeview and freesat). If it isnt digital then it wouldnt be in the UK market.
Posted by: JP | September 04, 2008 at 22:31
I'm very tempted to buy a PS3. Force Unleashed and Little Big Planet, all in a month? Woo.
Hang on though, X360 are cheap as chips and Blu-ray players can be had for £150 already. Oh and I can get Force unleashed for £24 on PS2 for what is essentially the same gameplay.
PS3 will have to get down to £250 for me to part with my cash and maybe they could be a bit more charitable with the shockingly priced peripherals (£39 for a bloody controller? Bugger off Sony).
If only my daughter hadn't fallen in love with little Sackboy.
Posted by: Simon Coxon | September 05, 2008 at 15:01
It is digital - no one would release an analog tv tuner.
its also got twin tuners - so record two sides at once. full of win. but as tv is broadcast DRM free it makes no business sense to add it on retrospectively. all 'value' broadcasts have identifying channel dogs on anyway.
theres also some weird separate hook up with sky tv - but thats a pay download service and its psp/pc based.
Posted by: mac | September 15, 2008 at 17:21