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PlayTV update brings chat support and more

Posted Nov 20, 2010 at 7:18PM EST by Ryan F.

Listed in: PS3 Tags: Australia, Europe, Facebook, New Zealand, playstation 3 updates, PlayTV, psn, Sony

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Sony's little black box add-on, PlayTV, has recently received a significant upgrade, bringing a hosts of new features to the PlayStation 3 Television peripheral.

Available only in the Europe, Australia and New Zealand, this nifty little device "plugs into your PS3 and lets you start watching, pausing and recording free-to-air digital television with Remote Play support."

Now ready for download in the updates section of the PlayTV main menu, the new patch includes:

Series Link: Never miss your favourite series with the addition of series link to PlayTV in the UK. (Not available in Australia or New Zealand)
Live Chat with friends while watching TV: Enjoy your favourite shows together with this unique new feature. Set up your own chat room or join an existing one and text chat to your friends or anyone on PSN without interrupting your TV Viewing. Up to 64 people can be in a chat room at a time and you can choose if you want your chat room to be open to your PSN friends, everyone on PSN or just the people you invite.
Recommendations: recommend programmes to Facebook and PSN friends. Share your favourite shows, films and soaps with your friends and get them involved. Send a recommendation to your Facebook wall with your own comments or recommend it to any of your PSN friends. PSN recommendations appear as a message to your selected friends with your own message and a link for them to record or watch the show automatically.
Community Favourites: Need some inspiration to help you decide what to watch or just curious what your friends and the PSN community are watching? Check out what people are watching right now, what they have been watching in the last 2 weeks and what they have set to record over the last two weeks. You can sort the info by your friends to see just what they have been watching, or the overall number to see what’s most popular with the PSN community. (Not available in Australia)
Premium Programme Guide: This update also includes a brand new, premium programme guide that gives you loads more info on the TV shows happening now and up to 7 days in advance. The internet based programme guide from tvtv allows you to see far more information on programmes than before and with PlayTV’s great search function, this enables you to search for the perfect show or film based on things like actors, directors, genres, etc (Not available in Australia)

The "Live Chat Upgrade" is not free though as it will set you back £6.29 / €7.99 / 12.95 AUD / 15.50 NZD, respectively.

Via [EU PlayStation Blog]

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The PlayTV 2 update is a complete rip off. Don’t do it. A line needs to drawn or else these blood sucking corporations will start charging for every update. The only reason people have paid the redonkulous £6.29 fee is to get series link, (which should have been a day one feature in the first place!)

2 years of waiting for series link .. a feature even a budget PVR bought in Tesco has ..and Sony bundle it with unwanted social features to justify charging us for it. Sony can KMA…

Still considering paying Sony for this update? Then read some of comments on PSN product manager James Thorpe’s Blog http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2010/11/19/make-watching-tv-a-social-experience-playtv-live-chat-upgrade-now-available-from-the-playstation-store/comment-page-3/#comment-117941

Sony r the new Apple. Charging for updates that should be FREE. Sony hang ur head in shame. What next? Charging for bug fixes and patches?

links to more reactions

http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/ ... p/11896392

http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/ ... 857#M52840

# The New Apple.. — SirJun 2010-11-23 23:53

The PlayTV 2 update is a complete rip off. Don’t do it. A line needs to drawn or else these blood sucking corporations will start charging for every update. The only reason people have paid the redonkulous £6.29 fee is to get series link, (which should have been a day one feature in the first place!)

2 years of waiting for series link .. a feature even a budget PVR bought in Tesco has ..and Sony bundle it with unwanted social features to justify charging us for it. Sony can KMA…

Still considering paying Sony for this update? Then read some of comments on PSN product manager James Thorpe’s Blog http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2010/11/19/make-watching-tv-a-social-experience-playtv-live-chat-upgrade-now-available-from-the-playstation-store/comment-page-3/#comment-117941

Sony r the new Apple. Charging for updates that should be FREE. Sony hang ur head in shame. What next? Charging for bug fixes and patches?

links to more reactions

http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-3-Media/Play-TV-Angry-about-being-charged-for-Series-Record-then/m-p/11896392

http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-3-Media/Play-TV-2/m-p/11895857#M52840

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