Sony’s PlayTV recorder of digital TV will allow users to do whatever they’d like with their recordings. The recordings will be transferrable to any media device you’d like to move it to, whether that be a laptop, your PlayStation Portable, and even a thumb drive.
Mark Bunting, a producer at Sony’s Cambridge Studio, demonstrated how the PlayTV’s mpeg-2 file could be transferred from the PlayTV interface to the PlayStation 3’s home menu.
From that point is when you can obviously move it to any other storage medium. There is absolutely no copyright protection on this material, which apparently makes it evident that it will be a huge source for potential pirated software. When questioned about this, Bunting made it known that they’re aware of this and that they’d hope their users would use good judgment when utilizing the media.
"Anything you like, really, as long as you do it legally. It’s in its raw format," he said. "We’ve talked to our legal department about it," explained Bunting. "All we’re doing is moving it out of PlayTV and to the cross-media bar as if it was any other recording. So hopefully users won’t do stuff they shouldn’t do with it. If I’m prohibited from getting the recording off and storing it somewhere else because some other dude is making money out of selling it, then I’d rather they brought the law in to catch those people."
PlayTV has yet to have a release date announced nor a sticking price, so when that information drops, we’ll be sure to bring it to you.