Sun, Sep 28, 2008 | 20:43 BST

85,000 PlayTV units ship in the UK

According to this GI story, Sony’s confirmed it’s shipped 85,000 units of PlayTV in the UK.

The hardware add-on, which acts as a freeview box and personal video recorder, went on sale last weekend for £70.

Everyone we know who has one can’t stop banging on about it. Which is clearly why 85,000 of them are now hitting shops countrywide.

9 comments

Big Stu
28/09/08, 8:50 pm

Does this have any advantage over Sky+ now Sony removed the option to do whatever you wanted with whatever you’ve taped?

DrDamn
28/09/08, 8:57 pm

It’s cheap if you already have the PS3.

Gamoc
28/09/08, 8:58 pm

And don’t want to pay monthly.

absolutezero
28/09/08, 9:26 pm

If you have a PSP you can watch TV on the toilet.

Syrok
28/09/08, 9:52 pm

Major bonus point that ^

ecu
28/09/08, 10:47 pm

I kind of want this, but Edge were quite critical of it in the recent issue. Although they did say that all the issues they had with it could be fixed via firmware updates.

BraveArse
29/09/08, 12:45 am

“Does this have any advantage over Sky+ now Sony removed the option to do whatever you wanted with whatever you’ve taped?”

Thay haven’t done that – I’ve just converted a program from PlayTv to Mpeg2 and transferred it to my PC tonight. No idea why that piece of “info” exploded on the interweb – it was complete f**king nonsense. Imo it’s a great piece of kit.

No_PUDding
29/09/08, 1:21 am

Ooh £70!!

Someone can wish me a merry Christmas.

Plainview
29/09/08, 1:55 am

Release it in AUS by the end of the year & I’ll be very happy