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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 2706773" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://stuff.tv/csfiles/blogs/cool/SonyPlayTV-2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />After a year long wait since it was first announced, Sony's Play TV finally  arrived on our desk today. And while it was tempting just to sit and watch the  Olympics all afternoon, we did have a poke around the PS3's telly recording  add-on to give you this first look.If we had a Stuff award for 'most  underwhelming piece of hardware design', the Play TV box would be a tough to  beat – it's a feather-light, plastic box with an aerial port, USB port and 'on'  light, and doesn't even bother with the PS3's glossy laminate finish. Still, at  least it has two tuners for watching one show while recording another (though  not recording two live channels simultaneously).After a lengthy firmware  update, it searches for channels, then presents you with the intuitive home  screen you can see above. On here, you get eight menus: 'Live TV', 'Guide' (a  7-day EPG), 'Schedule' (a list of programes you have queued for recording),  'Library' (a list of all your recorded programmes), 'Find + record' (a search  function) , 'Manual' (a help screen) and 'Settings'.The menus are  pleasantly slick – you can call up the full EPG, or just scroll through channels  in a smaller menu at the bottom of the screen. The box turns red if it's  scheduled to record, and behind the text a bar indicates how far you've got  through the programme. There's also the option of an on-screen remote (see  below) and chase play (the ability to start watching a programme that's still  recording).But there are a few downers. In order to allow recording  while you're doing other things on your PS3 (say, playing Haze) you have to  allow 'background recording', and there's a warning that this may cause  slow-down and effect gameplay.Play TV will be hitting shelves on 10th September for £70<img src="http://stuff.tv/csfiles/blogs/cool/SonyPlayTV-5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://stuff.tv/csfiles/blogs/cool/SonyPlayTV-7.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://stuff.tv/csfiles/blogs/cool/SonyPlayTV-3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://stuff.tv/csfiles/blogs/cool/SonyPlayTV-6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://stuff.tv/csfiles/blogs/cool/PlayTV-10.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><a href="http://stuff.tv/blogs/cool/archive/2008/08/19/unboxed-sony-play-tv.aspx" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://stuff.tv/blogs/cool/archive/2008/08/19/unboxed-sony-play-tv.aspx" target="_blank">stuff.tv</a></blockquote>

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