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PlayStation 3 to get TV tuner - wants to be PVR as well!

August 03, 2007 in News comments 9

If you have a PS3, it may just possibly take over your entertainment center in your home. From your all-round movie player, to DVR, and now all of a sudden Sony is thinking of turning the PS3 into a personal video recorder. I'd say the PS3 is borderline whoring your TV stand by taking over as the all-in-one entertainment system.

Apparently being a games console, media centre and Blu-ray player isn't enough for the PlayStation 3 - now it wants to be your personal video recorder as well.

The PS3 wants to be all things to all men, but is Sony getting too greedy in its attempts to own your lounge room? Personal Video Recorders are mission critical devices and, as media centre PC owners will tell you, they behave best when left undisturbed.

Is it really practical to use the one device for gaming, watching movies and recording television? If you're single you probably think the answer is yes, but if you share a lounge room with your family you'll know the answer is no. You want to record your favourite show, your better half wants to watch a movie and the kids want to play games. Who is going to win? I can tell you right now, it won't be you.

Assuming you've only got one TV in your lounge room you already faced this problem with the PS3, but using it as a PVR adds a whole new dimension to the problem. If you're scheduling recordings you're tying up the console twice for the one show, once to record it and again to watch it. Expect tension when a family member comes home to watch the recording of their favourite show only to discover, while the show was recording, someone else commandeered the PVR to play games -- taking it off to their bedroom.
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    Final Blade Aug 3, 07
    Gotta agree, it really shows you the true meaning of the term "Entertainment system" Which the PS3 is. Whether people like it or not, they don't have to use all its features. But i find it a waste since you paid for the system.
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    Supernouva Aug 4, 07
    It's a waste putting it in there. It's just gonna make that price tag go higher and higher for unnecessary additions.
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      Final Blade Aug 4, 07
      I rather have it than not. MS is just making people pay more for stuff which in the end they will need.
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    Seeker X Aug 4, 07
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    It's a waste putting it in there. It's just gonna make that price tag go higher and higher for unnecessary additions.
    Hahaha, are you kidding? The 80 gig/Motorstorm package is barely an incentive for people to spend the extra $100, for Sony to raise the price tag just for a *bleep*ing TV recorder is beyond stupid.
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      joshthegreat Aug 4, 07
      Aren't you kind of arguing for the same point, Seeker X? Given that, what's with the 'hahaha are you kidding'?
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        Seeker X Aug 5, 07
        No, my point was that IF they were actually going to make ANOTHER kind of PS3 with a PVR installed for some odd and illogical reason...raising the price is as *bleep*ed as releasing that kind of SKU.
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    sten mk II Aug 4, 07
    I guess the PS3's is going to be a multi purpose home entertainment.

    I think it's a good idea, and worth the extra 100$. The 60GB was 600$ to begin with, so now you're getting a game, 20 more GBs, and more features just for 100$ more. You're getting a better deal.
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    tidus04 Aug 4, 07
    A all in 1 entertainment system. Wow this will bring in a new range of people into the console if this is the case. Maybe not massivly but even if they are only 20% gaming but want the rest.. Jeez.
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      Final Blade Aug 4, 07
      Exactly, they are expanding there fan base to other people by this, also when a bigger price cut comes it will sell like hotcakes.

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