PlayTV User

Ah well.

After initially proclaiming that the PS3 PlayTV tuner would allow users to copy their recorded material from their PS3 hard drives onto any other device (e.g. memory stick, another hard drive,etc.) without worrying about copy protection, it now seems, according to Eurogamer, that this feature has been dropped.

What’s that clicking sound? Perhaps its the the sound of thousands of PlayTV preorders being cancelled?

Fortunately you will still be able to stream live TV to your PSP using the Remote Play functionality so I’m sure the 0.002% of people who actually planned to do this, instead of sitting in front of their 42″ LCD TV will be happy.

Eurogamer reports that the new release date for the PlayTV PS3 freeview tuner is now the 19th of September, a bit later than the last ‘official’ release date of the 10th of September.

As reported in the previous post, Amazon still has a date of 31st of October, so it will be interesting to see how this develops.

Eurogamer also reports that the retail price will be EUR99 – or 78 quid for us Brits.

Despite proclamations and confirmations from Sony that the Play TV would be released on September 10th 2008, online retailers don’t seem as confident.

Do they know something we don’t know?

For instance, Amazon have earmarked the release date as a rather spooky October 31st, whilst Play.com are more reticent and do not display a release date for the PlayTV at all.

Hmm…not good.

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