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PlayStation 3 To Get a TV Tuner and DVR?

by Tim Stevens on August 22, 2007 at 02:10 PM

PlayStation 3 TV Tuner Set To Be AnnouncedWe reported earlier this month that Sony's PS3 was due to be upgraded in the not-too-distant future to act as a digital TV tuner, and now the rumor mill is spinning full-tilt with speculation that Sony will make the official announcement this week at the Leipzig Games Convention, a four-day gaming conference held in Germany that's expected to draw some 200,000 video-game fans.

While details are slim at this point, it's expected that the PS3 will be able to act as a Tivo-like digital video recorder. And, with Sony's handheld PSP able to play content streamed to it from the PS3, the hope is that recorded content will be streamable over the Internet from your home PS3 to your PSP anywhere in the world. Imagine bringing your PSP with you on the road and, when you grow bored of the tackles in 'Madden', being able to watch episodes of 'The Office' that you'd recorded at home. Of course, when the new version of the PSP is released, you'll be able to play that recorded content on a big screen.

This functionality combined with the PS3's built-in Blu-ray player definitely further establish the PS3 as a multimedia powerhouse. But, with some of the most hotly anticipated games for the system, 'Lair' and 'Warhawk', both receiving mediocre reviews recently, it still remains to be seen whether Sony has the chops to compete with Microsoft and Nintendo in the most important category for a gaming console: gaming.

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