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About Octane
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I can Answer Video Game Compatability Problems (PAL, NTSC, JAP) for Atari 2600, 5200, NES, Super Nintendo/SFC, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Gameboy, GBA, DS, Sega Master System, Sega Mega Drive/Genisis, Game Gear, Mega CD, Nomad, Saturn, Dreamcast, Lynx, Jagura, Philips CDI, 3DO, Playstation, PS2, PSP and Xbox. Plus Ways around them to play wrong regions games on most consoles.
I also have an extensive knowledge of service and repair with most home consoles as well as arcade machines or pinball.
I have a reasonable general knowledge of most new to older games (I personally own about 1000 games and almost every console known to man.)
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Playstation, SNES, SATURN, Genisis/MD, NES, MS conversions. Controler conversions SNES to NES. Game conversion. Multi Carts. Remix and re-wire. PSP repair. Arcade building and customising. Video Game repair
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Expert: Octane - 9/15/2008
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Hi there, I am keen on purchasing a Play Tv device to attach to my PS3. I am in Australia, I see they are being released in the U.K on the 19th Sep, apparently we wont get ours till next year. I can get one from U.K on ebay. Are the U.K PlayTv devises exactly the same as what we will get here in Australia,if not will a U.K PAL version work here in Australia on my PS3. If so will all functions of the play tv work,Will U.K version recognize Aust EPG, firmware upgrades etc Thanks
Answer
Gday Luke,
Good Question which I don't know the full answer to.
But the technical specs for signal being received should be the same. The UK and Australian models will be very similar as both will be formatted for PAL signal as well as DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial) Which is the Digital video signal that is being sent in both countries. They are the same although there are rumblings that the UK will start broadcasting free to Air HD in the DVB-T2 format in 2009 which is a little different.
The thing I can't really answer is if the software for setting up the channels and guide (for recording) if it will differ in each country due to the differences in channels (In UK and OZ) and what is being played on the channels? Or how that will interact with the Schedule, find and Record functions? If the software gets this information off the free to air signal EPG and how this differs in each country? Not sure on how that will work. It's going to be similar but just how similar I am not sure.
Firmware updates should be okay and should not restrict it unless Sony puts something in the firmware for Australia that will stop this UK device working. (They've been know to do stuff like this before)
Since all this really does is turn your PS3 into a DVR recorder this should work. You should be able to set it up to record channel A at time X. But I am not sure if you will be able to set it up to record Show A (because the software may only be UK TV related EPG. I am betting it gets the guide/station information of the EPG but I can't say for certain if the UK and OZ will be the same for it to work?)
Bottom line is it should work but considering there should only be a 2-3 month wait and I don't really know how the guide/station
EPG software works. It might be worth the wait. Also considering the that the price is around the cost of a low to midrange DVR anyway and it's storage is limited to your PS3 hardrive capability. My question would be why shell out the money? It's a cool add on for your PS3 yes but a good DVR combined to your already existing set top encoder and TV would be much better value for your money with much more capability. (Not trying to put you off just point out technical specs)
Hope this helps
Octane
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