PlayTV on the Sony PSP

Further to an earlier post, this video from GC07 courtesy of the people at Gizmodo, gives us a walkthrough of a very nice thing called PlayTV from Sony. Basically, it turns your Playstation into a fully functional DVB-T receiver and PVR, with full EPG support... But wait, there's more.... It also allows seamless transfer of content onto your PSP, with the possibility of watching live content on there too.

If this all seems too cool to be true, just watch the video!

DVB-T for the PS3

Interesting news from New Zealand where a Sony exec has been quoted as saying that they hope to be able to provide a DVB-T tuner for use with Playstation 3 consoles by the time the terrestrial Freeview service launches there. That service is due to launch early in 2008, so this is something that could become available quite soon. The PS3 is already USB enabled, so one can presume that it wouldn't be so difficult to add the necessary software to the box. The question is, how long before we see this in Europe too?

(It's worth noting that DVB-T in New Zealand will be launched using MPEG-4 video coding from the start.)