{"id":432,"date":"2009-11-04T15:54:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T05:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=432"},"modified":"2009-12-18T14:13:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T04:13:08","slug":"no-play-with-playtv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2009\/11\/no-play-with-playtv\/","title":{"rendered":"No play with PlayTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did more research on whether PlayTV would suit my needs, and it looks like there are a couple stumbling blocks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PlayTV only records to the internal HDD. Given that it doesn&#8217;t compress the files, and will be sharing the drive with game saves and installs, I can see this filling up very quickly.<\/li>\n<li>One can copy files from the HDD to an external USB drive, but there are extreme limitations. The PS3 only understands external drives in FAT32 format. This has a maximum file size of 4GB. Normally, this is fine, but under HDTV, you can squeeze maybe 30 minutes of TV. Forget longer shows or movies.<\/li>\n<li>No ability to stream back from the PS3 to devices on the network other than the PSP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is sufficient dealbreaker for me, so I&#8217;m going back to building my own PVR. So far, I&#8217;ve built up an pretty impressive machine which will cost around $600. I still haven&#8217;t added in the tuner or remote control, but still not a bad deal.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also mucking around with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mythbuntu.org\">MythBuntu<\/a> in a VM to see what it&#8217;s like (lack of tuner notwithstanding).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did more research on whether PlayTV would suit my needs, and it looks like there are a couple stumbling blocks: PlayTV only records to the internal HDD. Given that it doesn&#8217;t compress the files, and will be sharing the drive with game saves and installs, I can see this filling up very quickly. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15],"tags":[359,358,357,355],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p149Qe-6Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}