GO!View

Whilst trying to find some info about Go!View the latest addition to the GO range of services/applications for the PSP I came across the official site which is one of the slickest web-sites I’ve seen in a long time. Eventually remembering what I went there for, Go!View is a video download service in association with Sky which will allow you to download and watch TV programs, movies and sport on a individual pay as you go basis or as a subscription. No prices as yet but in conjunction with PlayTV (the files are recorded in MPEG-2 format and they will be accessible from the XMB allowing transfer to the PSP) Sony seem to have the entertainment side of things sorted.

All this media does put a strain on memory and Pro-Duo sticks are not the cheapest format going which is nice that I discovered you can get a Pro-Duo adapter for micro SD cards. An 8gig micro-SD card with adapter is £35.99 inc VAT, half the price of the official memory stick.

PlayTV Price and Date

Just a very quick post, Amazon UK have PlayTV listed for pre-order. Availability is shown as 31st of July 2008, and the cost? A very reasonable £59.99 (RRP £69.99). remember for that price you are getting twin (HD) tuners which will act as a PVR as well.

PSN GUI Store Demo & BBC on PS3!

Video about the new PSN Store which should be available mid April along with version 2.30 of the PS3 firmware. Also mentioned was that 2.30 will have DTS-HD audio output for Blu-Ray movies (if it’s supported by the disc). Not being hugely into the audio side of things I have no idea what  difference this will make in reality but any advancement is always welcome.

From Crackle: PlayStation Store video walkthrough

Just came across this as I was posting the above and decided to stick it on the end.

PS3iPlayer uses the BBC iPlayer for Wii (didn’t know there was one!) and converts it for use with the PS3. You have to navigate to the site using the PS3 browser and quite frankly it’s brilliant. There are a few very minor issues but has the person who created it says:

“It’s mainly a demonstration of how easily the BBC could support the PS3 with their Wii version. This does nothing more than
mask your PS3’s user-agent string and makes half a dozen changes to make the JavaScript and CSS function correctly on the PS3.
It only took a day to produce, so come on BBC – how about implementing this properly?”

PSP Firmware Ver 3.95

PSP Firmware update ver 3.95 is now ready for download. The update has the following changes:

Support for PSN titles has been expanded
PS1 titles, assign buttons feature has been expanded

On the PS3 blog site, although not in the ‘firmware changes’ section it states you now have the option to leave the PS3 on when you exit ‘remote connect’, which is handy if you are downloading something.