PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3)PlayTV ships 85,000 units in UKGamesindustry - September 26, 2008
Submitted by welshbloke (60)
at 11:52AM PST on September 27, 2008
Sony has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that PlayTV has shipped 85,000 units to retailers in the UK.
The hardware add-on, which acts as a freeview box and personal video recorder, went on sale last weekend and retails for GBP 69.99.
Pre-orders for the peripheral were around 9000 according to Sony.
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This is a standard free view tuner and the only benefit I can see is to bring together under one hood more media features. TV being the most common although obviously this only caters for over the air TV and not Cable and Satellite broadcasts which are were the real HD programming reside currently within the UK.
I am not aware that any HD enabled TV actually up scales the Free view broadcast.