Apparently, users of the forthcoming PS3 PlayTV service will be able to record and export broadcasts, should they wish to. The digital TV receiver will allow users to export to other devices in raw file formats, we learn.

Sony Cambridge are apparently working on the new system, and MPEG-2 recordings can be moved from PlayTV to the PS3's main interface - where they can then be moved to a back-up HDD, a memory stick or even a PC.

No time or place limits are enforced on these files, and there are fears this could encourage the distribution of TV content online, Sony's Mark Bunting telling Eurogamer.net you can do "anything you like, really, as long as you do it legally. It's in its raw format."

"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," Bunting added on the question of legality.

"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."

By Luke Guttridge

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