Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is hoping that the PS3 will become the main focus of living room entertainment with PlayTV, a combined TV tuner and Personal Video Recorder for Playstation 3, which has a confirmed launch date in Europe of September 10th.
Although there has been no official announcement on price, the PlayTV website has let the cat out of the bag and revealed that the hardware will retail at £69.99.
PlayTV’s two TV tuners are High Definition ready and are able to view, record and play back High Definition signals in full HD1080P to complement PS3’s High Definition credentials.
The twin channel TV tuner peripheral and PVR software turns PS3 into a state of the art TV recorder, allowing users to watch, pause and record live TV. PlayTV will also record individual programmes or whole series1 to the PS3 hard drive for viewing later on the family TV, or for transferring to the PSP for remote viewing outside of the home.
European PS3 owners can also look forward to the PS3 video store, which launched in North America recently. Unfortunately though, Sony's David Reeve has confirmed that the service will will not be available in Europe until 2009.
So, will you be forking out for the service? Is £69.99 a reasonable price? Let us know in the HEXUS.community discussion forums.
