PlayTV allows you to record TV shows onto your PS3!
Play TV, a Television Tuner and video recorder for the PS3 by Sony has been revealed at the Leipzig Games Convention 2007 expo in Germany.
This peripheral will allow you to watch and record all your favorite TV shows onto your Playstation 3 console’s HDD.
A seven-day guide allows you to choose which programs you want to keep on your HDD, and you can even do this remotely using your PSP! That way if you forget to record something and you’ve already left the house, you have no worries! You can even stream files from your PS3 to your PSP to watch it elsewhere.
PlayTV will use the Digital Video Broadcasting standard, and be able to intelligently display the picture in high or standard definition depending on the capabilities of your TV.
“The introduction of PlayTV really will extend the already broad entertainment credentials of PS3, and makes it an exceptionally attractive proposition for the whole family,” said David Reeves, big cheese of Sony Europe.
This will be available in early 2008 across Europe (UK, France, Italy, Germany, and Spain were mentioned) and a price has yet to be determined.
No word yet on releases outside Europe, but you can bet that it will be coming eventually.
23 August 2007 05:43Reeteshinator
I was expecting that I could record my Gameplay videos using this.. but I cant:( so.. I will be buying a real DVR then 
23 August 2007 08:03SM2099
REETESHINATOR… HEVEN!!! BLASPHEMY! I will not allow that sort of comments in this forum!!! 
No man, I´m just messing with you. You´re right but also almost anything can be fixed with a firmware update. Thats how they fixed the Remote Play, to no suck. They´re not gonna announce that “record gameplay” feature right of the bat cause they want to let it go out slowly and when they put it out… they´ll say something along the lines of: “see, we do listen to the users.”
So I´d give it tops one month after launch and before the come out with that statement.
All in all… this is by far a huge leap for Sony. Although I would have liked to not have to buy something else and bulk up the space a PS3 already takes. Some kind of adapter from cable Tv coil to USB. Oh well :S
