It seems that the PS3 is going to get a lot more attractive to me, with a Digital TV tuner coming along for it and being released in europe first it could be the perfect console , the reports i have read say iot will have 2 tuners and be able to record the video to the internal hard drive. A games console , PVR music player, Blue Ray disc player all in one seems very good to me.

Complete with a MASSIVE 60 gig HDD?

Hmm...

The HDD is officially *USER* serviceable, something which most PVRs are not.

And with transcoding, 60 Gigs will store a lot than most PVRs.

Presumably 'transcoding' is a new term for compression then?

In which case the quality is going to be compromised.