Play-TV

Does anyone know if/when Play TV will be released in New Zealand. Have not heard anything for months.

[Vivasanti]

Isnt it spoooossee to be coming out but we have a huge delay?

Originally Posted by Vivasanti

Isnt it spoooossee to be coming out but we have a huge delay?

Last I heard was supposed to be out in Feb this year...or April at the latest. I'd rather go for Play-TV than get a freeview decoder.

[BorDAr]

can someone explain this PlayTV thing for me. i remember it being mentioned months ago but never knew what it was about

[sweetasman01]

Originally Posted by BorDAr

can someone explain this PlayTV thing for me. i remember it being mentioned months ago but never knew what it was about

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayTV

The last I heard they hadnt even started making the software for NZ/Au and were aiming for a 2010 release

[BorDAr]

wow i would so buy a PS3 then play tv if it came here

ITwire.com:
The appearance of PlayTV in Australia is confirmed for early 2009

[sweetasman01]

ITwire.com:
The appearance of PlayTV in Australia is confirmed for early 2009

New Zealand uses a system that is used by no other country in the world other than Norway, plus Sony is locked in a legal battle with Sky TV over access to the EPG data

Originally Posted by sweetasman01

New Zealand uses a system that is used by no other country in the world other than Norway, plus Sony is locked in a legal battle with Sky TV over access to the EPG data

F**k. Sky will roadblock anything to save their crappy service. Probably means we'll never see PlayTv in NZ.

[DoubleMANTIS]

Originally Posted by sweetasman01

plus Sony is locked in a legal battle with Sky TV over access to the EPG data

Why would Sony be in a legal battle with Sky??
PlayTV is DVB-T as is Freeview/HD. Sky is DVB-S or DVB-S2. Sky has no Digital Terrestrial service.
Freeview EPG has nothing to do with Sky, it's a totally different platform, so your comment puzzles me some what.

[Brianemone]

I am also pretty sure Sony has every chance of having a good working relationship with the Freeview people as their PR people are actually the same company.

[BorDAr]

Originally Posted by Brianemone

I am also pretty sure Sony has every chance of having a good working relationship with the Freeview people as their PR people are actually the same company.

atleast theres some good news there.
how long did it take freeview to get into NZ?

[FaceAche]

Is it still Pead PR?

[redfiat]

Big problem is that PlayTV does not yet support HD.

There is discussions that this is due to the HD format freeview uses in the UK and that our FreeviewHD will be okay, but it is not clear.

What we need is a clear statement from Sony on this. Anyone with contacts and a keen sense of journalism going to do an investigation for us?

[fahrenheit]

The flavour of AAC audio used here (and Norway) is unique and as such is not commonly supported in either commercial or open source software.

So convincing Sony to add support for this (currently) rare codec is a major barrier to getting this done. If it is to be intergrated into the system software, then it has to be rolled out globally.
Hardly what Sony would consider a priority.

The other barrier is Freeview requires that HD only passes on the HDMI path and any other interconnect downscales the signal. Sony aren't doing this in the UK as they are happy to let Component pass HD resolutions with PlayTV there.
They could tell Freeview to piss off, or demand an exception to the rule.

[dst]

So PlayTV is basically a free to air HD-TV source.
With being able to record to HDD via PS3?

Like say My Sky HD without the Sky?


Sounds pretty choice,.