http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/ Engadget Comments for Sony's PlayTV set for July release, UK pre-order now available http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 20th 2008 10:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r7taMqA66c
click here for hilarity... nuthin to do with the stoopid article :D]]>Apr 21st 2008 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 20th 2008 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 20th 2008 10:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 20th 2008 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 20th 2008 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 21st 2008 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 20th 2008 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 22nd 2008 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 21st 2008 1:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 21st 2008 2:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 21st 2008 4:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 21st 2008 4:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/
.uk denotes the principality of the United Kingdom and therefore isn't British (i.e. from the island of britain). I'm sure those folks in Northern Ireland would take issue with being called British. Although I have a feeling the .uk site serves all of Ireland anyway.

Anyways back to the subject. Have they sorted out the issues with being able to record whilst you are doing some thing else? Seems like a near pointless product if you can't do anything else with the system if it is recording a program or you can't record a program whilst playing a game or movie.

I do think overall the PS3 is a better machine than the Xbox 360, but the media interface and integration with a media center PC makes the PS3 with a DNLA server seem pretty poor. Although codec support is much, much better on the PS3 (no surround sound at all on Xbox) and the constant updates to improve this are very welcome. That said they broke the MP4 support a couple of updates ago and still haven't fixed it properly (which is pretty poor considering this is supposed to be the main format it supports!). ]]>Apr 21st 2008 5:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 21st 2008 5:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/
Great Britain consists of Scotland, England and Wales. The UK is shorthand for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Eire south Ireland) is another nation entirely.]]>Apr 21st 2008 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 20th 2008 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/they use a greek calendar, so you nailed it!

LOL
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...nice lyrics]]>Apr 20th 2008 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 20th 2008 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 20th 2008 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 20th 2008 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/
Anyways, I'm still bummed that this isn't coming to America.]]>Apr 21st 2008 12:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 21st 2008 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 21st 2008 1:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 21st 2008 4:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 21st 2008 4:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/]]>Apr 21st 2008 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 21st 2008 5:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 21st 2008 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/
I am lucky, because this Dutch citizen is going to enjoy glasfiber within a few months, with television (digital and HD will come). That will make my PC the transition to HTPC with 100's of Gigabytes of space!
100Mbit down AND up!

]]>Apr 21st 2008 6:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 21st 2008 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 21st 2008 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/oh, and according to this article, the ps3 allows you to record while playing a game
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=93867

Only downside i can see is that you really have to upgrade the 40gb hard drive in order to use the ps3 as a freeview recorder, otherwise there wont be much space to record programmes :( So another £50 or so to use PlayTV fully.]]>Apr 21st 2008 6:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 21st 2008 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/
Bizarre. I was hoping it'd come out long before 31st July. I thought that the BBC might do a terrestrial HD test for the games in London and I'd be able to watch it using PlayTV.

I suspect that Sony has delayed things because they've now agreed the terrestrial HD standard for Freeview and they're making changes to the hardware. It would explain the delay at any rate.

Not impressed with their price shennigins though.
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The Play TV team have already had talks with the BBC HD team and other releated parties ages ago so that they could spec the correct hardware when designing it (early 2007 it was reported)]]>Apr 21st 2008 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/
I was hoping to have one by now. Ah well, such is life.
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But anyway, that's a good price. Especially since there is no copy protection on the files.]]>Apr 21st 2008 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/20/sonys-playtv-set-for-july-release-uk-pre-order-now-available/Apr 21st 2008 4:58PM