PlayTV & Background recording.

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Hi.
I just got myself a 250Gb drive & PlayTV for my PS3.
I appears to support the ability to record stuff even when im in game or watching a film.
Has anyone actually tried this, and are there any adverse affects of this?

+ Will the PS3 auto start if im set to record and its off?

Thanks in advance all. :).
 
Don't know about any adverse effects of background recording but as long as your ps3 is left in the standby state (red light) it will start and stop itself for scheduled recording.
 
you can only record one thing at a time and watch another. I've never seen any adverse effect in playing online games and recording at the same time.

you can also record and play back what you have previously recorded at the same time.
 
I get the odd stuttering now and again but I think that is because my signal quality varies between 30%-50%. When the transmitter gets a 10x power boost in December, I'm hoping it will cure it. I don't think it's due to me playing games at the same time.
 
ic1male said:
I get the odd stuttering now and again but I think that is because my signal quality varies between 30%-50%. When the transmitter gets a 10x power boost in December, I'm hoping it will cure it. I don't think it's due to me playing games at the same time.
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It is!
 
Well its definatelly switched itself on then off for recording whilst i was out.
Pleased with that.

Cant decide wether to be annoyed with E4 or the PS3, as i missed the first few mins of 'The Big Bang Theory'. :p.

Anyway to do series link on it?
 
BoomAM said:
Cant decide wether to be annoyed with E4 or the PS3, as i missed the first few mins of 'The Big Bang Theory'. :p.
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Blame E4. The PS3 is only doing what you told it to. However, there does seem to be some kind of signal sent on certain stations to mark the start of a programme. Practically all my BBC recordings begin bang on time and all the others have a minute or so of adverts beforehand.

So something is telling the PS3 when to start recording - when you look at the times for example, a recording for a 9-9.30pm programme can be recorded as 8.58-9.28pm etc.
 
Is the series link gonna be added in future perhaps?

Roughly how much am i gonna be able to record anyway?
Theres probably about 170Gb in total for it to write to, asuming +20Gb for any future games/downloads off PSN.

Going off the current rate, it worked out about a gig per half hour i think. So that'd be 85hours of SD recording, and from what ive been told, 8Gb per hour for HD, so when we get the HD broadcasts, say 21.25ish hours of HD.

Is that about right.

Still umming and arring wether to have it record anytime, including when in game/apps....

Ive noticed when i goto some options on the XMB it needs to quit PlayTV, will that also cancel any scheduled recordings from taking place, or will PlayTV just autostart afterwards?
At the moment, i re-enter then 'normal quit' PlayTV...:p.
 
PlayTV is a kernel-level process I reckon. As long as the unit has power, PlayTV will do its thing regardless of what else you are doing. Unless you play PS2 games. It won't work then.

I wouldn't concern yourself about HD recording. We've had discussions about PlayTV and HD before. It may work, it might not. I reckon the latter and Sony will have to bring out a PlayTV HD device.
 
There is absolutely no effects of background recording in my experience.

I have watched films, played online games, watched other channels etc. and the recordings and task performance has been superb.

The added fact that VLC player can play the recordings mean that I love it to bits.

It even picks up more channels than my Samsung's built in freeview tuner.


The guide is also much improved after the latest update. So fast.


It's a great bit of kit.
 
You can also hook it up to a XP/Vista/7 machine and use it as a freeview tuner, works really well with the built in mediacenter under Win 7. There are some drivers on the Internet if you search.
 
RobH said:
You can also hook it up to a XP/Vista/7 machine and use it as a freeview tuner, works really well with the built in mediacenter under Win 7. There are some drivers on the Internet if you search.
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That's interesting, I was thinking of doing an experiment loading WMCE on my mac mini but have so far been put off by the thought of having to buy a usb tuner just to test it.
 
RobH said:
You can also hook it up to a XP/Vista/7 machine and use it as a freeview tuner, works really well with the built in mediacenter under Win 7. There are some drivers on the Internet if you search.
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Really? So does WinMCE provide an EPG and allow you to make recordings?
 
ic1male said:
Really? So does WinMCE provide an EPG and allow you to make recordings?
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Yeah, it can get the EPG over the air as well, it picks up both tuners too, I was able to record one channel and watch another, didn't get chance to try recording two channels at the same time though, this was under Windows 7 x64.
 
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