Here next, please?
I speculated that Sony might return to the DVR/console idea (you can see it in the PSX released in Japan) a while ago (1st comment). While not quite as I envisioned it (primarily because I saw it going head to head with TiVo and other standalone DVR's with their significantly larger harddrives), this is pretty awesome.
I would like to know if the digital tuner will be an add-on through the USB ports or a new addition to the base hardware, given that AFAIK the PS3 has no form of video/audio input that I know of (digital or analogue). If its through an add-on, Microsoft should (in theory) have an easy time matching that feature. They've already started on the functionality (maybe out the end of the year?) so all they'd be doing is adding the alternate means of accessing content (ie, from a digital cable/satellite feed in addition to online).
As always, this is another example of software and services being the defining quality of this generation (what, you think DVR is free? That's a subscription service, m'man). The more the merrier, I say.