Sony PS3 - Play TV, is it easy to use?

steinooo · 28 Nov 2009 at 13:29

Hi all,

My Mum and Dad are interested in Play TV, but they're not much good with technology. Is it easy enough to use for them?

Streeteh · 28 Nov 2009 at 13:29

I'd say so yeah, no harder than any other PVR.

ZG002 · 28 Nov 2009 at 13:32

Yeah it's easy to use. Get a blu-ray remote for it though.

Got mine the other week for £33 on sale from a well know high street electrical store. coupled with the big hard drive its a good bit of kit

steinooo · 28 Nov 2009 at 14:15

thanks for the advice guys!

ZG, was that the remote you got for £33 or the play tv?

ZG002 · 28 Nov 2009 at 14:29

Play tv. Remote is about £17 most places.. But can be found for less

Wagon_Power · 28 Nov 2009 at 14:31

stokefan said:
thanks for the advice guys!

ZG, was that the remote you got for £33 or the play tv?

I'm guessing it's Play TV that cost £33 as that would be an insane price for the remote which is currently available for £9.95 online! You get an overlay with the Play TV that you can stick to the Blu Ray remote to make it really easy to use.

Depending on the HDD size already in the PS3 you may want to upgrade that too, 250GB slim would probably be fine but 40GB phat probably a bit too small.

steinooo · 28 Nov 2009 at 14:58

Cheers wagon power, I saw the blu ray remote which looks good for £10 but cant see play tv cheaper than £50!?

ic1male · 28 Nov 2009 at 17:37

I've still got everything crossed for 'PlayTV 2' which will do Freeview HD.

steinooo · 28 Nov 2009 at 18:00

have you read somewhere that that's a possibility?

ic1male · 28 Nov 2009 at 18:25

stokefan said:
have you read somewhere that that's a possibility?

Nope and probably not likely until the whole country has gone through switchover. But I live in hope.

GolfBryan · 29 Nov 2009 at 10:47

Got Play TV and remote and I love it, totally amazing and brilliant quality. Very easy to use. Eats up the HD space quickly though.

Syph · 29 Nov 2009 at 18:08

I'm really impressed with PlayTV. I'm not overly fussed on telly watching, but it seems a lot of the shows I like are on when others are. It's very, very quick to browse, record etc. Really responsive. Only thing that disappoints me is that you obviously need to load the PS3, then PlayTV itself. Not quite the speed you'd get from just switching the TV on.

ps3ud0 · 29 Nov 2009 at 21:22

PlayTV ate my 320GB HD

- easily the best console hardware accessory Ive used...

ps3ud0 :cool:

JumpLead · 29 Nov 2009 at 22:11

So I take it 60gb would go in no time? Is it easy to install a larger hardrive in a ps3? Thinking of getting rid of virgin tv and switching to playtv, need a better ariel in the front room though.

ic1male · 29 Nov 2009 at 22:12

It's about 2GB per hour.

ps3ud0 · 29 Nov 2009 at 22:22

You can easily move it off PlayTV onto the main XMB and then offload it to an external FAT32 device...

ps3ud0 :cool:

jojothemonkey69 · 30 Nov 2009 at 08:31

Got play tv yesterday and it's really good. One problem is that as I'm running it through a HD fury cable the image is to the left and I can't adjust it. Had this problem with dvds and games but my monitor auto adjusted it.

I've just exported match of the day 2 and that works fine it's just during live tv. Hoping to get a tv before Christmas so not too much of a problem just annoying.

orderoftheflame · 30 Nov 2009 at 09:28

ic1male said:
I've still got everything crossed for 'PlayTV 2' which will do Freeview HD.

PlayTV does do HD. We just don't have any channels to watch in the UK.

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2009/11/05/playtv-gets-even-better-with-1-21-update/

ic1male · 30 Nov 2009 at 09:29

orderoftheflame said:
PlayTV does do HD. We just don't have any channels to watch in the UK.

No, sir. That is only for countries that use DVB-T to deliver HD such as some in Europe, Australia. We are using a brand new DVB-T2 system - there are no receivers on the market yet.

ps3ud0 · 30 Nov 2009 at 09:30

You are both correct (semantics

). PlayTV does HD, just not the HD encode the UK will be using for Freeview HD...

ps3ud0 :cool: