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Sony's Harrison: No PlayTV For U.S.

tidus04 | August 23, 2007 | News | Playstation 3 Company 
Sony's Phil Harrison has released information saying that the PlayTV that is going to be offered to the PAL territories may never come to the American market. He goes on to state that the reason for this is because of the limitations of the digital terrestrial television coverage.
One of the biggest announcement's during Sony's press conference at the GC 2007 yesterday was the unveiling of PlayTV for PAL territories. This plan allows the PS3 to act as a TV recorder (you can record one channel while watching another), and the PSP will even be able to act as a remote access device. Sony is definitely going all-out in attempting to prove their console is the absolute best fit for any entertainment center.

"With the introduction of PlayTV's state of the art TV tuner and PVR functionality, PS3 is now the best choice of home entertainment hub for the whole family," said Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's David Reeves.

But if you're wondering when PlayTV will arrive in the U.S., Sony's Phil Harrison has provided an unfortunate (but somewhat expected) answer: not soon, and perhaps never. He pointed out this country's limitations in the realm of digital terrestrial television coverage, and the lack of a single nationwide satellite TV provider. In Europe, Sony has the benefit of linking up with BSkyB. Okay, so this time, it appears you Euro gamers have a victory in the video game world...we suggest you savor it, no offense.

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  • -1 thumbs!
    Reenee | August 23, 2007
    That's okay. We have internet.
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    Final Blade | August 23, 2007
    No need for concern, they said there going to work on it and it will be released worldwide when they fix some stuff.
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      Existenz | August 23, 2007
      Yeah when all of America gets one native tv provider... Thats like getting rid of the postal service because email is better, it is just an impossible task so right now PlayTV will be a European only service.
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        Final Blade | August 23, 2007
        Yea but the key words are Right Now It will come to America i have a feeling.
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    tallteen86 | August 23, 2007
    So basically, you wouldn't even be able to use it, unless you had a cable box like thing...

    So regular Cable TV wouldn't work with it, or something?
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      Existenz | August 23, 2007
      Basically Sony can't go linking up with hundreds of TV services... Where as while Europe has lots of providers e.g Virgin, Sky+ they all use the same system to get their channels which is BSkyB which makes it so easy for Sony to provide the service to Europe, it is alot harder to do the same in America.
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    volacide | August 23, 2007
    Well it has to do with how we get our HD channels and stuff here in the USA, it's not Sony's fault.
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    chubbie huicho | August 24, 2007
    Well that sucks it sounded pretty cool I hope that they do come out with it even if it is in a year or something cause it sounds pretty cool.

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