Continuing its movement to make the PlayStation 3 your catch-all media megalith, Sony has announced that the black box of Blu-ray will hopefully boast a digital TV tuner in early 2008. Next year, PS3 owners will be able to record television via the console, which is a pretty neat extension if you're into watching the mewling slew of garbage that supposedly passes for TV programming these days.
The news was revealed by Warwick Light, sales and marketing manager of Sony Computer Entertainment New Zealand. ""We're also hoping next year – about the same time that Freeview launches its terrestrial broadcasting service – to release a digital tuner for the PS3, turning it into a programmable TV recorder," told local Site The Press.
I'm up for it.
[Thanking TheGoldenDonut for the tip]
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9:39 AM on 08.01.2007
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They really are pushing for this 'all in one' shtick, aren't they? Let's just hope the quality is high, or you'll start getting all those stupid 'but it doesn't play games! lol!' comments.
And indeed, +1 internets for the Peep Show ref!
"What kind of a shop doesn't have Alpen?!"
Oh yeah? 24, Heroes, House, Lost, The Office, Prison Break, Scrubs, Bones, Law & Order (and its numerous spin-offs), The Simpsons, and Family Guy. All of those shows are on American network television, and they’re all awesome.
so yeah.
So...since there are no good games, you get to record teh TV?
I mean...
ahh crap..