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“Sony has talked up the multimedia capabilities of the PlayStation 3 since before it was launched – but it is only now that those promises are being met.

Later this year Sony will launch an add-on that will let PS3 owners watch digital TV via their console: PlayTV is a small black box which connects to a USB port on the machine and has an aerial port in (and a pass through port) to pick up digital terrestrial signals.

I had a chance to play with PlayTV at Sony’s UK offices on Wednesday. The hardware itself is uninteresting – it’s the software and features that are worth talking about.

It’s a very slick piece of user interface design. The Electronic Programme Guide and menu systems are well designed and laid out and the whole experience is certainly simple enough that PlayTV could be used as a main Freeview system in the home.

Just like a PVR, you can pause and rewind live TV, as well as record programmes. The PlayTV has a dual tuner so you can record one channel while watching another.

At the moment you can’t record TV in the background while playing a game on the PS3 but I’m told the software developers are working hard to add the feature. If it isn’t available at launch, the feature could be added later as a software update.

But the really fascinating feature is the ability to watch TV on your PlayStation Portable from anywhere in the world using PlayTV, turning the PS3 into a Slingbox on steroids.

RemotePlay allows PSP users to access their PlayStation 3′s over a wi-fi connection, either on a local network or over the internet.

You can already watch videos stored on your PS3′s hard drive – but with PlayTV you can now watch live TV, programmes you’ve recorded to the hard drive or schedule programmes to be recorded in the future.

Cleverly, if you know you are likely to stick with one channel for a period of time – if you are watching live sport or a film, for example – you can increase the buffering on the PSP to improve picture quality. And it makes a real difference.

The developers have worked hard to keep the whole operation as simple as possible so that even casual users can get live TV up and running on their PS3 quickly.

It will be fascinating to see how much marketing effort is place behind PlayTV because this kind of feature is a real competitive advantage over Xbox 360, which offers nothing remotely similar.

It is also another strong feature for the PSP which is beginning to flourish as a handheld device once again.”

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And now the announcement of the WINNER!

winners channel http://www.youtube.com/user/isdonisgood

winning video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcREsIHEjhA

original video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRrjDIvR-Vs – check out all the fantastic entries!

Thank you so much to all of you who entered, and to Toshiba, this has been fun ^_^

Pretty frikkin sweet prize too… sure it’s the greenest, but it’s also the LIGHTEST fully featured Notebook out there. (fully featured means it has things most other manufacturers leave out of their ultra portables… like plenty of ports and Built-in Optical Drives)

http://www.toshibanotebooks.com.au

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/green-electronics-survey-2

“a fantastic choice for mobile professionals”
- pcauthority.com.au

“one of the best ultraportables on the market” – cnet.com.au

“The ultra- portable notebook is also ENERGY STAR® 4.0 compliant and features a LED backlit show, the latest CPUs, the option for a Solid State Drive (SSD) as a storage medium that results in low energy consumption and long battery life, further reducing its environmental impact.

Toshiba believes that when it comes to award-winning products that less is more. We minimise waste and use recycled materials wherever we can, while constantly looking for ways to reduce energy consumption, Mr Whittard general manager, Toshiba ISD ANZ, said.

Our own recycling programs keep discarded technology from fouling the soil and atmosphere, as does our devotion to worldwide environmental initiatives. Plus, we check to see that the people who make the materials that go into our products follow earth-friendly practices just as we do so we all can delight in mobile computing amid a cleaner, more sustainable environment.

The life-cycle approach is excellent for life. One of our key objectives is to reduce the environmental impact of our products throughout their life-cycle. To do this, we assess every stage of the process, from procurement through to disposal.

In the interests of full disclosure, (and because I know I’ll be questioned thanks to some other dodgy youtubers and their sneaky back-room deals who’re damaging all our reputations here) no, I wasn’t paid to pimp this competition, not a single cent…

so why do it? simply, I was questioned if I’d like to help run it and I said yes, because the concept was fun, I get to give away a frikkin sweet laptop computer to one of my viewers, and also, many many years ago I owned an early Portégé model (back in the days of pentium III chips) and it was WAY ahead of it’s time, pretty much a “netbook” a excellent decade before we started calling them that, it was tiny, it weighed nearly nothing, it was truly ultra portable, and I bloody loved it, fantastic machine, never let me down.

So I’m a fan of what Toshiba do, with their dedication to making excellent gear, and now even more so with their strong commitment to environmental responsibility…. And hooray for me, Seems the folks in the Toshiba offices here in aussie-land have becomes fans of mine too, and were so pleased with the terrific response to the competition, they shoved a shiny new R600 into my hands as a thanks – it really is quite a nice machine too. (thank goodness, I’d despise to be giving away something shoddy heh) I’ll probably do a full review sometime soon when my to-do list is all caught up.

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DailySteals.com Raffle#76 Winner Of The Vizio 37″ 1080p HDTV is…. Ticket #482570

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