PlayTV launch date confirmed

MCV Staff 13th August 2008 Business News

Sony has announced that Freeview PVR device PlayTV will launch on September 19th in the UK for 69.99.

According to a post on official Sony site Three Speech, the PS3 device allows ‘recorded content to be transferred to your PSP, or viewed remotely with Remote Play – something we reckon will come in quite handy’.

Sony boasts that the device is ‘future proof’ for HDTV transmissions – currently planned by OFCOM to be introduced in the UK between 2009 and 2012, as the analogue signal is turned off.

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