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PS3 likes TV: DVR facilities planned
9:39 AM on 08.01.2007, Jim Sterling 23 comments

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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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-D-'s Avatar
-D- at 08/01/2007 09:43
+10 for Peep Show pic
brainderailment's Avatar
brainderailment at 08/01/2007 09:44
I've been wondering when they would do this. I saw someone mod a ps3 with linux using it as a dvr.
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Professor Pew at 08/01/2007 09:45
This will also mean new SKU's for bigger HDD's? Since consumers obviously can't swap their own hdd's and all that :)

And indeed, +1 internets for the Peep Show ref!
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Joe Burling at 08/01/2007 09:50
You won't be able to use this with your current cable service, but if you want to pick up local HD channels and record them, this will be a nice feature. Of course, you could do it with Media Center and Vista and just stream it, but not everyone has those OS's.
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bipolar beers at 08/01/2007 09:59
i think this is a nice add on.
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bhive01 at 08/01/2007 10:15
I'm gonna need to upgrade my HDD if this is the case. Good thing Sony allows you to do it yourself.
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renison at 08/01/2007 10:23
BONUS +10 pt.s (just cause it's British)

"What kind of a shop doesn't have Alpen?!"
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jerrt at 08/01/2007 10:47
well i can't wait, now i just need to actually get channels to dvr. [:
DrXym's Avatar
DrXym at 08/01/2007 11:22
Now that's a killer feature. It would be nice though if they support existing USB digital tuners such as popular Hauppage ones just not some Sony branded device.
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jdubya93 at 08/01/2007 11:40
Thats numberwang
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LostCrichton at 08/01/2007 12:09
This is a great feature and is one I might buy a PS3 for. Epic use of the Peep Show pic. I love that series. I can't wait to see that Mitchell and Webb flick "Magicians". Hopefully it heads here to the US.
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Samit Sarkar at 08/01/2007 12:12
“...if you're into watching the mewling slew of garbage that supposedly passes for TV programming these days.”

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.
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carrotshirt at 08/01/2007 12:59
no comment to the guy above. does anyone know if pstriple will eventually become an HD PVR? is it possible with what's in that box? Because mine is crappy.
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Kotua at 08/01/2007 14:35
sunami88... but what about teh Law & Order!? or rather Law & Order:Criminal Intent...if they still have it.
so yeah.
So...since there are no good games, you get to record teh TV?
Samit Sarkar's Avatar
Samit Sarkar at 08/01/2007 17:51
Well, favorite TV shows are a matter of opinion, and I agree with you that Family Guy just hasn’t been the same since it came back from being canceled, and that Simpsons episodes over the past five seasons have generally been average at best. That doesn’t mean I won’t still watch it when it’s on, though, especially since the last two episodes of this past season (#399 & #400) were two of the best in recent memory.
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SPIDER PIG at 08/02/2007 01:02
that thing will never hold all my episodes of 7th heaven...
I mean...

ahh crap..
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SubOrbital at 08/02/2007 02:44
Does this mean the PS3 will not be filled with suck now?
Jim Sterling's Avatar
Jim Sterling at 08/02/2007 08:58
br0n: I don't live in America.
Samit Sarkar's Avatar
Samit Sarkar at 08/02/2007 17:41
Right, that’s why I noted that it was American TV I was talking about. As long as you were just discussing British television, it’s cool.
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