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PS3's PlayTV: you can record TV content while playing games

Posted Aug 29, 2008 at 8:04AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: News Tags: Europe, PlayTV, Sony, The Guardian, UK

Sony - You can actually record while playing games using PlayTV - Image 1

Good news for PlayStation 3 gamers in the UK when PlayTV launches next month. According to Sony, the service will allow you to record TV content while playing video games.

Makes sense, right? An extremely useful feature If you feel like playing video games instead of watching shows, but your favorite show happens to be on.

The Guardian's Greg Howson explains in his review of the service:

There will be a message in the final build of the code that will ask you to reboot your PS3 to enable the background recording functionality. [...] Unfortunately you can't record two programmes at once - you can record one channel and watch Live TV on another though - which feels a little restrictive.

Also of note in Howson's review is that PSP transfer from the PlayStation 3 requires a conversion process of videos, which is "fiddly" enough to make most users feel that it's not worth it. Although he does note that remote play worked well.

PlayTV will launch September 19 in the UK, with the rest of the Europe, and Australia and New Zealand to follow.

Via Guardian.co.uk

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Well... You CAN import it to the US. But it'd be a hell of a waste of money, unless you're looking for a PS3-styled paperweight :P.

The US uses ATSC for TV transmission whereas Australia, Europe, New Zealand and the UK use DVB-T. I suspect that Sony's probably working on an ATSC compatible one though. Mind you, you guys have access to a lot of the online movies and TV shows, which we (sadly) do not qualify for for whatever reason. So you're not exactly at a huge loss without this.

# Great — ALLOUTKILLA 2008-08-29 15:53

That's it im moving to Europe. JK

# I hope the U.S. gets a version of this soon. — CHUCKINGROCKSATSPACESHIPS 2008-08-29 21:29

This is another most wanted product I feel that would help round out the Playstation experience. Also does this allow you to record from another video source such as cable or satellite service?

# yeah... — Someone_PR 2008-08-30 05:09

that's all I really want... I don't care over the air signal... I just want a TIVO in my PS3 lol... I have all channels available in my cable tv so I want to record those oness....

# We WANT IT TO! — Hekynn 2008-08-30 06:46

The US also wants it!! Plus were going full Digital next feb so give it to us! this makes me gonna buy a PS3 for this and other games

# sings — Binary 2008-08-30 07:04

You can't always get what'cha you want

# .. — DontCryIfYouDie 2008-08-30 08:51

and Europe wants access to the psn video store but we will have to wait, and you will have to wait for a version for the product for your region im afraid. that is if they decide to create one for US market, but why wuldn't they?

# DVR — acalora 2008-08-30 10:35

if you have DVR, FiOS or Comcast..., then you shouldn't need this

# I'm in US — Eclipze_ 2008-08-30 12:54

And theres a whole bunch of commercials saying that US is switching from AV to DV in 2009. Aparently we'll have it by late 2009 if thats the case. I guess theres just too many people using old as5 TV's lol.

# coming soon... — jgr9 2008-08-30 16:52

dtv standard for the u.s. feb. 19th! and 4 those of u who don't know - that is not late 2009

# @Eclipze_ — XEnigmaX 2008-09-01 05:16

We in the US are switching from an analog signal (NTSC) to a digital signal (ATSC), not AV to DV.

# how does this work? — jmak0 2008-09-10 05:28

sorry for sounding dumb, but does the PS3 have to have an external peripheral to record from the TV/tuner or does it just use the HDMI output/AV output as an input? please explain

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