Play tv how does it work

Freeview Play is a YouView-like electronic programme guide EPG that lets you browse forward to see what's coming up in the week ahead and scroll back to see shows from the previous one. It combines both catch-up and on-demand television into one easy to view EPG, making it far easier to find your favourite programmes. Plus, if your TV or set-top box is connected to the internet, you can go backwards in the guide to catch up on programmes you've missed over the past seven days.

Samsung is the only major brand yet to embrace the useful service. Check our TV reviews to find the high scoring models. To put Freeview Play through its paces, we connected a compatible Panasonic TV to a high-speed broadband connection in our lab.

Then, two experts tested every single feature of the EPG to give you the expert review below. The EPG will perform slightly differently on other devices, but you should still get a good idea of the benefits on offer.

Once you're up to speed with all its features, Freeview Play is an impressive EPG, with a user-friendly design. However, getting started could be handled better.

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Open World , Post-apocalyptic , Exploration , Singleplayer. Showing 1 - 15 of 1, results. SCEE is evaluating future plans. Is HD recording still going to be coming to the current model? Are Sony looking at updating PlayTV's capabilities regularly via update? Currently the picture on all TV types for PlayTV is of a high standard, in the market there are many variations of the upscale options available, Playtv does rudimentary upscaling of the picture already.

Why can't you record 2 things at once? PlayTV has 2 tuners, so it should be possible. We dedicated one tuner to do the recording and one to do the watching. Our find and record feature will find all of your programmes and this paired with a clever conflict management system should ensure that you can always record what you want. What's the release date for the Irish version?

DVB-T has not been rolled out in Ireland. Once digital rollout has been completed. SCEE will investigate further. If you're going away for a week or so and want to record something, do you need to have the PS3 on all the time or can you put it on some sort of standby mode so it'll wake up when it needs to record? The PS3 only needs to be left in standby mode. It will wake up, record and shut itself down when the recording is completed.

Does it do series record? Additionally, there are several forum complaints already saying that the YouTube app on certain platforms lacks the surround sound audio or HDR support that Play Movies had. That makes two dead Google Play brands so far. Google's half-launched, inconsistent rebranding efforts make watching a purchased Google movie a complicated proposition.