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Sony Developing PlayTV Tuner, DVR Accessory for PlayStation 3

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 23, 2007 - 1:20pm.

Frankfurt, Germany - Sony on Thursday announced plans to introduce a TV tuner and digital video recorder accessory, called PlayTV, for its PlayStation 3 video game console, the Associated Press reported.

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Interactive TV Games Firm PlayTV Acquires Pixel Technologies

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 22, 2005 - 9:29am.
New York -- PlayTV, a publisher of interactive TV games, announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Pixel Technologies, a developer of cross-platform entertainment technology. While PlayTV said it raised an undisclosed amount of new funding for the new company, financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 2002, New York-based PlayTV provides subscription-based interactive TV games for cable and satellite TV systems, based on properties including "Monopoly," "Scrabble," "Asteroids" and "Reader Rabbit." Israel-based Pixel Technologies has provided cross-platform, multiplayer interactive TV game software to customers including EchoStar, Liberate, OpenTV and Microsoft. The new company will be headquartered in New York and will be renamed PixelPlay.
tags: Games | Deals | PlayTV | Pixel Technologies |