PS3 To Get DVR Functions Digital Tuner In 2008

[tbone4690]

PS3 To Get DVR Functions Digital Tuner In 2008

MCV's prediction that Sony may be soon unveiling support for terrestrial digital broadcast service Freeview for the PLAYSTATION 3 is looking spot on following comments from Sony Computer Entertainment New Zealand boss Warwick Light. He told Kiwi outlet The Press that the company is "hoping next year... to release a digital tuner for the PS3, turning it into a programmable TV recorder." His timeframe? First quarter of 2008, alongside the New Zealand launch of Freeview.

Freeview is already available to fans of receiving television signals in the UK, broadcasting dozens of television and radio channels. It's possible that the PS3 TV tuner could simply be added via one of the console's four USB ports and that larger hard drive options may coincide with the product announcement.

But I'm just riffing here. I'm sure we'll know by Games Convention in August if this whole thing pans out.


http://kotaku.com/gaming/pal-bosses-speak/ps3-to-get-dvr-functions-digital-tuner-in-2008-284606.php

The PS3 as a cable box, hmm.. I wonder where that idea (http://kotaku.com/gaming/top/hands+off-iptv-for-xbox-360-peter-moore-cries-227114.php) came from?:rolleyes:

[masterninja]

Never heard of the PSX have you?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_(DVR)

It was a PS2 with a big HDD only released in Japan a few years back i know its hard remembering these things but damn that PSX made me drool back then.:cool:


Would be a cool function for my PS3 then im definitely going to build in a bigger HDD.:D

[gebbie]

i remember it.. but ur link dont work :cool:

[ENNO]

That it linux is going on...im installing myth tv and watch live recordable rewindable and pauseing TV....:D

[masterninja]

i remember it.. but ur link dont work :cool:

Works fine with me lol.:cool:

[tbone4690]

Iknew about the PSX, but it didn't do well because of the insane price, wasn't it just as much as a PS3 and it failed because of the price. ITt had nice features, but it was to much whihc is why it never made it out of Japan. I'm still thinking that they got the idea for this from MS.