LGC07: SCEE announces PlayTV for PS3, "watch, record and replay TV shows"

IPTV will offer more considering the fact that there is extremly limited Digital terrestrial viewing in the Uk plus BT Vision has the footie

I really really really really really really really could use something like this in North America, that at least supports NTSC, but also supports unscrambled QAM and even ATSC. Seriously, I don't have any kind of DVR or PVR that I can use without leaving a computer on, which is not ideal over vacations. I'm really tired of using tired old VHS tapes that are tired.

I could really use this with my PS3!

I gotta admit though the picture is pretty dope.

Lets look at both services for the Uk:
360 Bt Vision IPTV:
[edit] BT Vision Music
BT has agreed deals with i-concerts and Eagle Rock - two established providers of long-form music video content - to provide a range of concerts and music documentaries on-demand. The concert programming covers a wide variety of genres including rock, pop, urban and ‘alternative', to jazz and classical music.

i-concerts' potential line-up includes names such as Franz Ferdinand, Keane, Bon Jovi, Andrea Bocelli, Billy Joel, Pavarotti, Roxy Music and Sheryl Crow.

BT also has a deal with Warner Music Group.


[edit] BT Vision Films
DreamWorks will provide BT with output from the producers and creators of films such as War of the Worlds, and the Shrek franchise. Upon launch, DreamWorks will provide BT Vision with titles such as Steven Spielberg's Munich; Madagascar; Just Like Heaven, Red Eye and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
Paramount Pictures
NBC Universal.
Lionsgate films.
Buena Vista International (Disney).
Walt Disney Pictures
Touchstone Pictures
Miramax Films
Pixar Animation Studios
Warner Bros.
BT Vision Sport
BT won the rights to carry 242 ‘near-live' FA Premier League football matches per season. The three year deal covers the 2007-8, 2008-9 and 2009-10 seasons. BT has acquired the rights in a joint bid with BSkyB.

This will allow viewers to watch Premiership matches on their televisions on a pay per view basis, without the need for an upfront television subscription.

On Launch Day, BT Vision announced that as of August 2007 Setanta Sports New Channel, would be joining the line up, using digital terrestrial through a smart card, offering Live English Premiership and Scottish Premier League games, as well as other sporting events.

BT vision sports launched on 17 July with intention to gain cutomers who do not wish to pay a high monthly subscription for sports.


[ BT Vision TV & BT Vision Kids
NBC Universal Shows.
Independent produced shows.
BBC Worldwide.
The History Channel
Nickelodeon
Cartoon Network
CBS Paramount Television
MTV
National Geographic Channel
Buena Vista Television (Disney Networks)
American Broadcasting Company abc TV.
Disney Channel
Channel 4
HBO on Demand. Service to be added 2007 (Announced 13 February 2007 to be added to BT Vision, Tiscali TV and Virgin Media)
Warner Bros.
Adult Swim
Channel Line up:
BBC1
BBC2 England
ITV1
Channel 4
five
ITV2
BBC Three
BBC Four
ITV3
Sky Three
UKTV History
More4
E4
abc1
QVC
The Hits TV
UKTV Bright ideas
ftn
TMF The Music Factory
Ideal World
Bid TV
Price-Drop.TV
ITV4
Film4
E4+1
ITV2 +1
Film4 +1
Setanta Sports
Five US
Five Life
Smile TV
Thomas Cook TV
CBBC
CBeebies
CITV
BBC Parliament
Sky News
Sky Sports New
sCommunity Channel
Teachers TV
BBC News 24
Play TV (Freeview):
TV channels
BBC One (some regional variations in programming)
BBC Two (some regional variations in programming; variations from analogue in Wales and Northern Ireland)
ITV1, STV or UTV[10] (some regional variations in programming)
Channel 4 (except Wales) or S4C Digidol (Wales only)
Five
ITV2
BBC Three
Channel 4 (Wales only) or TeleG (Scotland only)
BBC Four
ITV3
Sky Three
UKTV History
Channel 4+1[11]
More4
ABC1 (not available in Wales; does not broadcast for its full hours on Freeview)
QVC (reduced hours in Wales)
The Hits
UKTV Bright Ideas
Ftn
TMF
Ideal World
bid tv (reduced hours in Wales)
price-drop tv
ITV4
E4
E4+1[11]
ITV2+1[11]
Film4[11]
Five US
Five Life
SmileTV
Thomas Cook TV (does not broadcast for its full hours on Freeview)
CBBC Channel
CBeebies
CITV Channel
BBC News 24
BBC Parliament
Sky News
Sky Sports News
S4C2 (Wales only)
Community Channel (does not broadcast for its full hours on Freeview)
Teachers' TV (does not broadcast for its full hours on Freeview)

[edit] Radio stations
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1Xtra
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 4 (FM version)
BBC Radio 5 Live
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
BBC Radio 6 Music
BBC Radio 7
BBC Radio Asian Network
BBC World Service (English language European version)
The Hits Radio
Smash Hits
Kiss 100
Heat (not available in Wales)
Magic 105.4
Q
Oneword
102.2 Smooth Radio
BBC Radio Scotland (MW version; Scotland only), BBC Radio Wales (Wales only) or BBC Radio Ulster (Northern Ireland only)
BBC Radio nan Gaidheal (Scotland only), BBC Radio Cymru (Wales only) or BBC Radio Foyle (Northern Ireland only)
Mojo (not available in Wales)
Kerrang!
talkSPORT
Clyde 1
Premier Christian Radio
U105 (Northern Ireland only)
Virgin Radio
Heart 106.2 (Northern England, Southern England, Wales, Southern Scotland and the Isle of Man only) or 100.7 Heart FM (West Midlands only) or Heart 106 (East Midlands only)
Radio Music Shop (not available in Northern and Central Scotland)

[edit] Text and interactive services
Teletext
Teletext Holidays
Teletext Cars
Teletext Games
Teletext on 4
BBCi
Sky Text

[edit] Future channels
Virgin 1 (due Autumn 2007) will replace Ftn[12]
Nuts TV (due 12 September 2007)[13]

See, now this is what MS needs to be doing with the Media Center/360/Zune. Hopefully, this'll light a fire under their asses.

As an owner of both a media center PC (wish you had one :P) and a Xbox 360, I don't see why this PlayTV for the PS3 is a big deal when I can do all that DVR stuff RIGHT NOW.

And as for the anti-christian (which's icon I'm offended at), please name me one big game on the PS3 right now that's setting the world on fire.

We've been down this road before, and it failed miserably in Japan. It was called the PSX.

I really don't see what the problem is. I for one am pretty excited about this announcement. Albeit, I don't own a PS3, but I will take any extra functionality I can get...

I think much of this argument stems from single-use/multi-use devices. As in, for the most part, single-use devices do what the are built for very well (i.e. Tivo, Wii (jokes)) While multi-use devices do a plethora of things, but never to the same caliber as the single-use devices. Here we see the ps3 expanding itself into a multi-use device and people are apprehensive or don't see a need for these additional functions. It's understandable.

And I think the reason why the 360 didn't get as much crap was because it already had a relatively established game library before hand. Whereas the ps3 has RFOM.

As a tech guy that works for a cable company trust me a 1tb hard drive on my PC and maybe a second one on usb 2.0 with Vista Media center with a digital dual tuner with two cable cards would be the best way to go. To bad as of yet we dont have PC tuners with cable cards yet. But as of a few days ago where I work at, we just receive the new Two Way Cable Cards. (for some of you, the first gen of cable cards where 1 way cards) Now I wish they can make a PC Tv tuner with two cable card slots and good bye to my poor 160gb Motorola box or good bye to those lousy 80gb Moxi boxes or 160gb SA boxes some of you may use. And as for this thread a PS3 with 60 or 80gb drive is Useless for DVR they are like ummm maybe 4 years behind. Even a xbox elite with 120gb drive is Kinda useless also. If a 250gb gen 3 dual tuner (dual cable card) Tivo can only do 25 hours of HD, you can already imagine what a 80 or 120gb will do.

Seeing as the PS3 has failed as a games console, they now have to turn it into a media PC. It would be worth buying one of these now however, because it makes a good media center PC, at a reasonable price (for a PC). For games, I'm sticking to my 360 though.

Dual tuners would allow you to record two shows at once, but here's where it gets tricky.... How do you get premium channel integration without cable card or a set-top box to do the decoding of the encrypted signals being pushed to your system? That's what I'd like to know.

Seems like Sony is once again ripping off someone else... *cough* IPTV on 360 *cough*

The only difference is that Microsoft has been active in the IPTV community since day 1 (creating the front-ends for quite a few providers systems) and I'm sure they have a creative solution for getting around the premium content issue.

Plus, monthly fees in america will be a given... they don't give cable tv out for free.

As, long as I can connect two of them and record 4 shows at once while watching one of them. That is the functionality you need, along with the multimedia version of the PS3 with 500gb hard drive and an blu-ray burner.

Now, if they could have released stuff like that when the PS3 came out, with Linux, and maybe Blu-ray reader DL DVD burner combo drive, we might have bought it in the first place. They shoot themselves in the foot, too little in order to stretch out demand which eventually went somewhere else.