{"id":429,"date":"2009-11-03T09:05:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=429"},"modified":"2009-12-18T14:14:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T04:14:22","slug":"playtv-comes-to-australian-ps3s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2009\/11\/playtv-comes-to-australian-ps3s\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayTV comes to Australian PS3s"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been contemplating a PVR for a while. Lack of funds and partner buy-in have sort of left me dead in the water, but P. recently saw a friend’s TiVo and was intrigued enough to suggest getting one (eventually).<\/p>\n

Things have gone quiet on that front, but have since done some digging. Basic TiVo is cheap enough, but extra features (like playback on your PC via ethernet) are $100+ addons, and when I totted up the cost, it looked like I could build my own for the same price and get complete flexibility.<\/p>\n

And now Sony’s gone and thrown a spanner in my works by announcing the PlayTV is coming to Australia<\/a>. I still need to check the full feature set (can it record while gaming, network playback, etc), this would kill two birds with one stone: I was also looking to get a PS3 this Christmas.<\/p>\n

At full retail price, the PS3\/PlayTV combo comes to $670. If I were to build my PVR, I’d be looking at $1200 for the hardware (many hours of making it work just right) plus $500 for the PS3. This could save me potentially $1000, so I’m definitely going to check it out.<\/p>\n

This may do what nobody<\/a> has been failing to achieve for at least a year now: get me to buy a PS3 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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