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so this is only for Europe when it hits that market?

:(

even the youTube video only mentiones non-US territories

Not for now it seems :(

However this may be a case of releasing a product to a certain market to see how it does. If this sells well you will surely see PlayTV in the US, or something with a similar branding.

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Well...hmmm...I don't know how well this would take in the US. I guess I don't know how 'freeview' works but most cable/satellite companies now are using DVRs as the main boxes, or they only charge a small fee. My dual-tuner DVR through DirecTV is free with $10 for HD programming. So, where does this PS3 thing fit in?

Or is it for folks who use over-the-air programming?

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Well...hmmm...I don't know how well this would take in the US. I guess I don't know how 'freeview' works but most cable/satellite companies now are using DVRs as the main boxes, or they only charge a small fee. My dual-tuner DVR through DirecTV is free with $10 for HD programming. So, where does this PS3 thing fit in?

Or is it for folks who use over-the-air programming?

exactly

The over the air market has a larger appearance in the UK (its the main way of getting digital TV AFAIK, I think freeview overtook sky last year).

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Too expensive. If they sold this thing for ?50 it would fly off the shelves. ?99 makes me instantly disinterested. I will have to wait for a price dro:(:(

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The US will get it eventually, they probably released it here first because OTA is the primary method of getting TV for most people.

If they are clever they are probably working on a US version that has a cablecard slot, allowing you to access your cable TV service.

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Another q from me, I guess there is no legal issues with recording your TV shows?

I know TV recorders exist already, im guessing whoever makes them just has to pay royalities or something?

Cause I know channels like Channel 4 offer you a service to download TV show episodes off the net, but they charge for it.

Once we've recorded something im guessing it's locked to our PS3 hard drive? Or do you think it will record in something like Divx and be transportable? (outside of it being able to be streamed to PSP)

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I'll be the first to shout OLD! :D

It was posted in the gamers news a few days back. I've not seen the images though, so thanks. (Y)

Fair enough, I missed that.

But this is a forum discussion topic for it then. Some folk like myself don't often read the front page news :p

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It will probably do the same as pretty much every other PVR, just dump the raw mpeg2/4 stream from the OTA service to the HD. The file size depends on the average bitrate of the channel (diff channels use different bitrates) and obviously the length.

An hour's recording from C4 a few weeks ago came to around 1gb on my media PC.

It'd be nice if they offered an mpeg 2 > xvid option but if not you should be able to transport these around to a PC and convert it. Other PVR's allow you to transfer files so it should let you. I'd be really surprised if they locked it down, people have been transferring TV shows since VHS, heh

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It will probably do the same as pretty much every other PVR, just dump the raw mpeg2/4 stream from the OTA service to the HD. The file size depends on the average bitrate of the channel (diff channels use different bitrates) and obviously the length.

An hour's recording from C4 a few weeks ago came to around 1gb on my media PC.

It'd be nice if they offered an mpeg 2 > xvid option but if not you should be able to transport these around to a PC and convert it. Other PVR's allow you to transfer files so it should let you. I'd be really surprised if they locked it down, people have been transferring TV shows since VHS, heh

(Y)

Let's see if due to the recent Divx support being a big thing, they might allow Divx recording/transcoding on your console as opposed to you having to do it on a PC.

In saying that though, if an hour = 1GB, that's quite high - Was that HD or SD though? As we know SD shows off the net around the hour mark, usually hit 350-400mb (xvid).

Still I think i'll be getting a nice 350GB drive for this - I'd love portable drive support though, and don't see why it wouldn't be included (recording to a USB drive)

There is a lot of stuff broadcasted in the UK, that's challenging to find on the net later on - Or if it's a series, manage to find it all.

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