PS3 to get digital tuner in 2008 - bit-tech.net Forums

Da Dego · 1st Aug 2007, 14:39

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/08...uner_in_2008/1

New Zealand's boss of Sony lets slip news that the company is hoping to make a digital TV tuner available for the PlayStation 3 by 2008.

Seraphim Works · 1st Aug 2007, 14:50

I'm actually pretty interested in this, not that I have a PS3, but it strikes me a very nice way for me to have digital tv hooked up to my 215TW along with a powerful console capable of playing most of my ps2 games. Simplifies things nicely and saves space for me.

Question is, how much and when?

mikeuk2004 · 1st Aug 2007, 19:29

I said before that i was surprised that these next gen consoles ie PS3 and 360 dont have a digital tuner and act as a Hard Disk Video Recorder as they both want to be multi media hubs and be the one source under your TV.

Maybe this is it, If they put a digital tuner in, it must be to record to the hard disk as what else could it be used for???

The only other reason I can think of. You buy a LCD TV with no tunner. Then if the pesky TV licence man comes around, you only have the games console to hide, and then you would say to the TV man 'how can I pick up TV signals, there is no tunner in my TV so sod off you annoying little man'

Super_Crazy_Guy · 1st Aug 2007, 22:42

Woot NZ! hehe. I didn't realise that Sony let its NZ Managers know information...thought they just kept them in a cage in the basement.

sandys · 2nd Aug 2007, 00:07

Hmm, whos going to want to have a tuner plugged in front of the PS3 with the required antenna hook up to it, its bad enough my KVM plugging into the front, looks untidy, they really should have fitted USB ports to the rear. The upfront ones are fine for plugging my old PS2 controllers into when I need 4 pads or a wheel when I want to use that but to have a tuner in front

They'd be better off doing what they did with the forerunner to the PS3, the PSX (not the PS1 but the PSX PVR released in japan ) that sort of system might have a chance of selling now that the component parts are cheaper.

1st Aug 2007, 14:39	#1
Da Dego Brett Thomas Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Cleveland, OH USA Posts: 3,906	PS3 to get digital tuner in 2008 http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/08...uner_in_2008/1 New Zealand's boss of Sony lets slip news that the company is hoping to make a digital TV tuner available for the PlayStation 3 by 2008. __________________ "Frankly that seems overkill. iluvtrees2 arguing with spec is the intellectual equivalent of a bunny rabbit taking on a pissed-off lion." - Nexxo

1st Aug 2007, 14:50	#2
Seraphim Works Multimodder Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Wirral / Coventry, UK Posts: 164	I'm actually pretty interested in this, not that I have a PS3, but it strikes me a very nice way for me to have digital tv hooked up to my 215TW along with a powerful console capable of playing most of my ps2 games. Simplifies things nicely and saves space for me. Question is, how much and when? __________________ From a 4.0Ghz P4 to a 3.3Ghz Q6600, thank god for price wars...

1st Aug 2007, 19:29	#3
mikeuk2004 What you Looking at Fool! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sheffield, UK Posts: 3,051	I said before that i was surprised that these next gen consoles ie PS3 and 360 dont have a digital tuner and act as a Hard Disk Video Recorder as they both want to be multi media hubs and be the one source under your TV. Maybe this is it, If they put a digital tuner in, it must be to record to the hard disk as what else could it be used for??? The only other reason I can think of. You buy a LCD TV with no tunner. Then if the pesky TV licence man comes around, you only have the games console to hide, and then you would say to the TV man 'how can I pick up TV signals, there is no tunner in my TV so sod off you annoying little man' __________________ -\|- Xfire - Mikeuk2005 -\|- Xbox Live - Mike UK 2006 -\|- Playstation Network - Mikeuk2004 -\|-

2nd Aug 2007, 00:07	#5
sandys Hypermodder Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bristol, UK Posts: 922	Hmm, whos going to want to have a tuner plugged in front of the PS3 with the required antenna hook up to it, its bad enough my KVM plugging into the front, looks untidy, they really should have fitted USB ports to the rear. The upfront ones are fine for plugging my old PS2 controllers into when I need 4 pads or a wheel when I want to use that but to have a tuner in front They'd be better off doing what they did with the forerunner to the PS3, the PSX (not the PS1 but the PSX PVR released in japan ) that sort of system might have a chance of selling now that the component parts are cheaper. __________________ Into Gaming and around Bristol, UK, Click Here

1st Aug 2007, 22:42	#4
Super_Crazy_Guy What's a Dremel? Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 13	Woot NZ! hehe. I didn't realise that Sony let its NZ Managers know information...thought they just kept them in a cage in the basement.