PS3 Fanboy

New Zealand > America. There's a high probability of this being true what with all the fuss being caused over FreeView at the moment. But then again with a stand alone Freeview reciever being quite affordable why would Sony specifically go to the extent of creating a first party device for it. *shrugs* Believe what you will.

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Please say that with the tuner you can use the PS3 as a LocationFree Hub!?!

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mmmm....remote play tv with the PSP and PS3...I love it!

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I woyld rather have support gor more video formats.

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Oh, and 300 on BD looks frikkin amasing.

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It is rather obscure that news as big as this comes from NZ, not Sony Japan or America where everyone considers to be the major markets

Freeview set top boxes are rather expensive here in NZ too and this is something im definitely getting

DVR is will be one of the biggest selling points here in New Zealand and will help justify the price ($1195 + 3 games)

Thank You SONY NZ, now go market this to death

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does that mean i can record my porn too? damn thats awesome good thing i hot swapped in a obscenely big 160 gig HDD

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How exactly will this work, will we have a big USB tuner hanging out the front of our PS3's or will this be included in a redesign?

It annoys me the PS3 doesn't have a HD Tuner, I mean, it's so close to a Media Centre PC.

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FreeView - is this the same digital FreeView we Brits have been paying for and using for a good few years now? If so why would Sony wait for NZ to get this service when the UK already has a strong install base and a rapidly approaching terrestrial signal switch-off?

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#9 Freeview? Isn't it "just" DVB-T? If so has Denmark (and mostly of Europe) that. I think that feature will be very nice; use it as a harddisk recorder, for 800$ (in Denmark) you get:
Blu-ray player - in DK about: 818$
Harddisk recorder: about 118$
Game console: :)
and alot of nice features!

So a very nice thing.

#8 If this is a huge thing, you can just use a USB cable, to hide the tuner :D

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@ #9/LS

We do not pay for FREEview.. the clue is in the name...

There are premium/subscription/pay per view services available via the DVB-T broadcasts in the UK but consumers are not forced to have these and it is optional if people decided to pay out money to subscribe (top up tv etc).

Freeview is just a name for the provider (DTV Services Ltd) here in the UK (and elsewhere).

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@12: "This is a gaming console or is it?"

Nyet comrade, they are positioning this as a multimedia hub, just like Microsoft. And even if this rumor is true, it sounds like a peripheral. Therefore, the obvious answer is not to buy it.

So pipe down sparky, and the games will come at the same pace they've always arrived in an early console release cycle.

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@10: i was refering to the wording of the original article but yeah, DVB-T. And I agree it would be a nice thing to have for our PS3s

@11: I meant "paying for" in the sense that the BBC is a publically funded body from the License Fee, and thus "FreeView" is something of a misnomer

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@Dug E Fresh:

OH NOES! I hate options! Just give me a machine that _only plays games_!

Seriously dude, get a Wii. The rest of us want a nice media hub. When you dole out this kind of cash, saying it only plays games makes you wonder why it's so expensive. Well, it's expensive because it can do many things and do them well. Anyway, it's just another option, nobody is forcing you to buy it, and it's possible it'll drop in Asian/European markets first.

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The grammar police would like to offer this friendly reminder:

HD = High-Defintion
HDD = Hard Disk Drive

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I would love something like this. Sony does suprise me from time to time with their ups and downs, but this is defiantely an up.

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How exactly would it be implemented? One of the biggest miffs I have about the PS3 is that all the USB ports are up front, meaning 3rd party add-ons (or even Sony created ones) all have to hang off the front of the PS3. Why Sony couldn't put a few USB ports in the back of the unit is beyond me. So, while a PVR option for the PS3 will be cool, I can only see it as like a tumor growing out the front of your PS3 wrapping around the back so you can get some SD quality recording (because it will be a cold day in heck before cable companies allow their HD broadcasts to be recorded on 3rd party devices).

Perhaps, one could only hope, that the PVR will be a network device that would connect wirelessly or through the ethernet port on the the PS3. Sony has already invested heavily in location free wireless TV, so it makes sense they would leverage this investment in a PS3 PVR. If done right, this device could easily spank AppleTV, the power of the PS3 combined with content downloads and recording!

I only hope that this "ability" is not exclusive to some new model of the PS3 that will be released with it built in, or offer USB ports on the back for sleeker implementation. For now, I am skeptical about the whole idea and hope that if its done, its done right and hot a half assed afterthought.

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"If done right, this device could easily spank AppleTV"

Isn't AppleTV already a huge failure?

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Just give me some games and the ability to play .avi files and install codecs.

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@21 Try using Nero MediaHome - it'll happily stream avi files to your PS3 (no luck with codecs though)

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