Comments on: Sony Promise PlayTV Coming This Year… In Writing

By: nozlaf

nozlaf — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:48:21 +0000

maybe for you the only drawback is loosing sbs but for those of us who live in regional australia we would not be able to get any channels

By: matt

matt — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:22:58 +0000

I was tempted to do this too, as I already have an always on PC next to an arial. much fuss to set up?

as for ad skipping… TV isn’t free. don’t want ads? buy the dvds. (or the digital downloads)

By: Montydog

Montydog — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:56:49 +0000

Picked mine up in France a fortnight ago (son imported one approx 6 months ago for himself), one of the best investments I have made for quite a while. Think people are getting a bit picky if the lack of lack of ad skipping is their only concern.

By: Flame

Flame — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:58:57 +0000

I got tired of waiting and bought a cheap second-hand PC + TV card, with Win7 RC for Media Centre.

By: NK

NK — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:47:01 +0000

Earlier this week EB games changed their release date from “Nov 2009″ to 26/11/2009. They are listing a price of $169.95

http://www.ebgames.com.au/ps3/product.cfm?id=11558&refer=productsearch

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:38:43 +0000

It’s explained http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/?tag=ps3_playtv

Basically if you select ‘other’ you can’t access UHF, therefore no SBS

By: daf22

daf22 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:30:45 +0000

Ad skipping?!

Are people serious too lazy/impatient to use the fast forward button.

By: Travis Young

Travis Young — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:14:02 +0000

The lack of ad skipping could kill this device for a lot of people. There’s no reason it should be ‘Freeview’ compliant, that’s just marketing rubbish trying to sell digital to the below average joe.

I’m curious though as to why SBS is lost if you select ‘other’ for your country. Are they on a bit of spectrum not normally used?

By: Clayton Wood

Clayton Wood — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:31:24 +0000

if add skipping is not on, then playTV may not be on the cards anymore… why does it have to be freeview capable… really sony… why?

By: Rhys Kingston

Rhys Kingston — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:26:49 +0000

I was pretty keen – a year ago. The extended delays and now Sony’s unnecessary pandering to meet the Freeview requirements has put me off to be honest.