Strange that it took Japan this long to get an equivalent system. My UK PlayTV box records the freeview TV MPEG2 stream as .m2ts files, the file sizes vary greatly depending on the channel. You have to keep an eye on it, as anything bigger than 4GB can't be copied onto USB drives. I upgraded my PS3s HDD to 320GB and the old 80GB HDD now resides in an 2.5" enclosure, still in use as a backup drive.
You can play the files in VLC, or convert to MP4 with Handbrake. Very useful as using the ffmpeg codec encodes very quickly for my ipod classic.
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Strange that it took Japan this long to get an equivalent system.
My UK PlayTV box records the freeview TV MPEG2 stream as .m2ts files, the file sizes vary greatly depending on the channel. You have to keep an eye on it, as anything bigger than 4GB can't be copied onto USB drives. I upgraded my PS3s HDD to 320GB and the old 80GB HDD now resides in an 2.5" enclosure, still in use as a backup drive.
You can play the files in VLC, or convert to MP4 with Handbrake. Very useful as using the ffmpeg codec encodes very quickly for my ipod classic.