PlayTV for PS3

ronan.h

Hey anyone know much about these: Play TV

Do they work over here in Ireland?
Do they work on NTL?
Do the require broadband or anything?

Cheers in advance

giggsy664

They work here

They connect to an aerial, so they might work on ntl

No broadband

L'prof

giggsy664 wrote: »

They work here

They connect to an aerial, so they might work on ntl

No broadband

All along I thought for some reason that it worked with digital...that's crap!

AtomicHorror

giggsy664 wrote: »

They work here

They connect to an aerial, so they might work on ntl

Really? I thought they only worked with DVB-T... has anyone actually tested Play TV here?

mjsmyth

They don't work here yet. The irish DTT, unlike the UK DTT, is based on Mpeg4, not Mpeg 2.

Although the Ps3 will decode mpeg 4, Play TV itself, at the moment, only decodes Mpeg 2.

I am afraid if you buy it, you will be wasting your money for the moment.

They will not work with NTL.

It is digital, not analogue.

mj

Mossy Monk

giggsy664 wrote: »

They connect to an aerial, so they might work on ntl

It wont work with NTL. It will work with Digital Terrestrial only.

Absolam

mjsmyth wrote: »

They don't work here yet. The irish DTT, unlike the UK DTT, is based on Mpeg4, not Mpeg 2.

Although the Ps3 will decode mpeg 4, Play TV itself, at the moment, only decodes Mpeg 2.

I am afraid if you buy it, you will be wasting your money for the moment.

They will not work with NTL.

It is digital, not analogue.

mj

+1, unfortunately! There will be an Irish version sometime next year according to Sony, once the Irish government finalise the digital standard.

Mossy Monk

Absolam wrote: »

once the Irish government finalise the digital standard.

It has been finalised. The delay has nothing to do with the government.

Zonda999

Absolam wrote: »

There will be an Irish version sometime next year according to Sony.

Hopefully, thats the case. Then I wont have to get a freesat-HD/mpeg4 combo(Will they ever come FFS!!). I can just get any old freesat box and play tv:)

And it wont be an "irish version" at all really. Many European countries will be using mpeg4 DTT in the not too distant future

newballsplease

anymore news on this playtv yet?? its for sale in argos in ireland, but am i right in saying its useless at the moment?
surely it couldnt be just a matter of plugging it in and there ya go........

Mossy Monk

It is useless unelss you can get Freeview.

yoshytoshy

It won't work over here. The hardware is working fine in England at the moment ,so they don't need to change it.Maybe if we get extra signals or sony changes the decoder on the device:(

thebman

Mossy Monk wrote: »

It has been finalised. The delay has nothing to do with the government.

I presume they are waiting until there are actually channels available so they can market it to people.

Little point in releasing it now just because the government finalized the spec if they there are nobody has the channels yet (I know there is a trial on but its only a trial).

newballsplease

newballsplease wrote: »

its for sale in argos in ireland, but am i right in saying its useless at the moment?
surely it couldnt be just a matter of plugging it in and there ya go........

its not actually on sale in argos i tried to buy it there and they told me it is in stock but their HQ are under strict orders not to sell until further notice

newballsplease

it would be great if it did work...ofcourse wer behind the times!:rolleyes:

ongarite

newballsplease wrote: »

it would be great if it did work...ofcourse wer behind the times!:rolleyes:

In fact we are going to be ahead of the times. The UK DTT system is based on the old MPEG2 system where as Ireland and the rest of EU will be using MPEG4 which has HD support and better bitrates.

newballsplease

so when can we expect this to come in??

thebman

I think Autumn this year for RTE to launch their service and the boxes to be available so probably next year before this comes out.

Zonda999

Could be sooner though.Some other european countries are launching mpeg4 dtt soon(Possibly sooner than us) and that may hurry sony up in launching the ps3 firmware update that will allow us to use play tv like in the uk. Cant wait for it cos it'll be so easy to record tv. No need to fiddle with the dvd recorder any more.:)

vibe666

kiss goodbye to your hdd space tho, lol.

mehtinks it might be time for the 500gb hdd upgrade for the ps3.

L'prof

vibe666 wrote: »

kiss goodbye to your hdd space tho, lol.

mehtinks it might be time for the 500gb hdd upgrade for the ps3.

I already have it (500 GB hdd), it's great