For the first time in a long time, we want to grab Sony and kiss them square on the lips. Because PlayTV, the PlayStation 3′s DVR/PVR (that’s not coming to the States yet), will record television to MPEG2 files that can be easily copied off the system to any storage medium you’d like. That’s right, no DRM.
But can Sony do such things legally? According to their producer Mark Bunting, it’s fair game:
We’ve talked to our legal department about it. All we’re doing is moving it out of PlayTV and to the cross-media bar as if it was any other recording. So hopefully users won’t do stuff they shouldn’t do with it…If I’m prohibited from getting the recording off and storing it somewhere else because some other dude is making money out of selling it, then I’d rather they brought the law in to catch those people.
Hallelujah! Someone ring a bell so Sony gets its wings. [eurogamer via kotaku]
edward
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 7:55 AMWe need the PS3 to encode all the video from PlayTV in DIVX. This would make it one of the best PVRs available (due to its abillity to sync with PSP and use that as a great PMP). MPEG2 is good but small high quality DIVX files is even better.
Chris
Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 8:58 AMWhen and where can we buy one of those?