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)

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