PlayTV is an additional peripheral available by Sony for the Sony PlayStation 3.  PlayTV allows PS3 owners to view, record, and pause live TV.  PlayTV plugs directly into one of the PS3’s USB ports and allows you to watch free to air television broadcasts on your PS3, further enhancing the PS3 as a home entertainment center.  Not only can you watch, pause, and record live TV broadcasts, you can also record a program on one channel while watching a different channel.  If you also happen to own a PlayStation Portable, you can take all of the wonderful features with you wherever you go.  By using the Remote Play function on your PSP, you can connect to any wireless network, then view live TV broadcasts in superb quality.  With PlayTV, you also have access to a large TV program guide, so you can view upcoming TV shows and choose to record them to your PS3’s hard drive.

The Nintendo Wii is truly a revolutionary gaming system.  Nintendo combined innovation and advanced technology to create a one of a kind gaming console.  The Nintendo Wii offers game play unlike any other gaming console available on the market.  Instead of just sitting on the couch and controlling your in game character with a traditional buttons and joystick controller, the Nintendo Wii features controls where you must swing, thrust, and twist the controller, appropriately named the Wiimote, that gets you off the couch and right into the actions.  You must swing the Wiimote to play tennis, twist the Wiimote to steer a car, or thrust the Wiimote forward to box.  The Nintendo Wii offers a wide range of game titles that take advantage of the Wii’s features to give you a truly unique game play experience.  The family titles will get your whole family off the coach and right into the excitement.

The Sony PS3 is the ultimate home entertainment solution.  Equipped with an 8 core Cell Broadband microprocessor, the same type used in supercomputers, the Sony PS3 is one powerful machine.  Play beautifully rendered games with vivid colors that almost look like they are real.  Not only is the Sony PS3 capable of playing games, but it can also allow you to watch movies, listen to music, chat with friends, and view photos, all in full high definition. But the real selling point of the Sony PS3 is its ability to play high definition Blu-ray discs.  Blu-ray discs offer unparalleled picture and sound quality at full high definition.  What’s more, the Sony PS3 only costs a fraction of the price of a Blu-ray player, but it also comes equipped as a gaming console.  You can also use your Sony PS3 as your home entertainment center by wirelessly connecting it to you PC.

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The third generation of the Sony PlayStation Portable offers a much slimmer profile, a brighter screen, and built in microphone, as well as all the features its predecessors had.  The Sony PSP 3000 is an all in one multimedia device.  With its high resolution 480×272 widescreen LCD display, it is capable of vivid colors, making playing games, watching movies, or surfing the web an enjoyable experience.  Built primarily as a handheld gaming console, the Sony PSP 3000 offers graphics similar to that of a home console, all packed in a slim and lightweight profile.  With Wi-Fi capabilities, you can browse the web, download updates and features for your favorite games, and listen to free internet radio.  With built in Skype internet phone, you can call your friends and family directly from your Sony PSP 3000 and use the built in microphone to talk to them.  The microphone can also be used to talk to other players during multiplayer online gaming.

The PS3 Slim (PlayStation 3 Slim) is the latest video game console from the PlayStation division at Sony. As the name suggests the PS3 Slim is a thinner, more streamline version of Sony’s popular PS3 console.

Anyone who plays video games knows that they involve sitting on the couch in front of the TV for hours at a time.  It is no wonder that many people who spend a majority of their time playing video games are unhealthy and overweight.  But with the Wii Fit from Nintendo, you can enjoy all the fun of playing a video game, with the fitness and health that comes with regular exercise.  The first innovation comes with the Wii Fit Balance Board.  The balance board measures your weight, but it can also be used as a way to control your onscreen character.  The Wii Fit Balance Board can read your movements, then apply them to the in game characters.  The Wii Fit offers many different fun, exercise activities such as yoga, strength training, aerobics, and balance games to help you improve your health.

The next generation of console gaming is here with the Xbox 360 video game console.  The Xbox 360, created by Microsoft, offers a high quality gaming experience with games such as the Halo franchise and the Grand Theft Auto franchise.  Capable of outputting full 1080i high definition picture, game play on the Xbox 360 is truly breathtaking.  The tri core Intel Xenon processor offers 3.2GHz of processing power from each of its three cores, so you will never experience lag or stuttering when playing your favorite games.  With a standard 20GB hard drive, you can store hundreds of your favorite videos, songs, and photos and with connectivity with Windows Media Center, you can turn your Xbox 360 into a one stop home entertainment solution.  The Xbox 360 is also backward compatible with original Xbox titles, so you can play your favorite classic without the need for additional hardware.