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Play TV Demo
September 13, 2008
I’ve just downloaded a demo of Play TV for the Playstation 3. The Play TV demo is a digital tuner for use with the PS3 and allows you to watch and record digital programmes onto your HDD, the same as Freeview recorders or Sky+.
The menu is very basic and easy to navigate around and the guide with all the TV listings was very easy to use as it’s no different from the ones I’ve used previously on Freeview and Sky.
The programmes that are the demo are obviously just demo channels that have already been pre-installed for users to get used to how Play TV works. You can record a programme with one push of the select button, which I found very useful also.
Continue reading »Blu-Ray Wins Format War
February 20, 2008
Well Blu-Ray has officially won the high definition disc format war over HD-DVD!
The writing was on the wall last month when Warner Bros announced that they’d only be supporting Blu-Ray after May 2008 (Sony paid a lot for this commitment from them), given that they sell between 20-30% of all DVDs, that’s a huge chunk of the market! That was followed by the literal silence from the HD-DVD camp at the recent electronics shows, so it’s now no real surprise to hear that HD-DVD is now officially discontinued.
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