PS3 Play TV, coming soon to the UK.

Posted by Keith Foster

August 13, 2008

Raise your hand if you know about the PS3 Play TV…. Long story short it’s a USB tuner to turn the PS3 into a PVR, also allowing you to copy over to a PSP (while I can’t find confirmation it may also allow streaming to the PSP). You might be asking why do I care, this is an Apple TV site. True, but it underlines why Apple needs to roll out Apple TV V2. Recent price drops have blu ray drives right near the 100.00 mark, and that’s retail for you and I. ATSC/Qam tuners are cheap and Apple can build the software for a PVR. So I think you can see where I’m headed with this, right? Apple TV + Blu Ray + PVR + streaming and importing to iPods . All for under the price of a 40gb PS3, Apple will have its iPod for the living room. I still stick by the idea of two versions of the ATV one for you main TV like above, and cheaper less functional units for around the house.

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