[PS3] PlayStation 3 Fan Noise. Annoyingly loud, ain't it?

That must be why it can't play any of the videos stored on my computer that the 360 could play even before the DivX (+more) update.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

There is currently no means of modding a PS3, so you're out of luck in that department.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Yeah, I myself always hated TVersity for never being able to keep up with my computer's library of resources. Therefore I've just stuck with WMP11's media hosting abilities. It may not be the best, I have no clue. All I know is that I'm done wasting my time on this crap and that it works.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Well I think everyone knows that they're going to phase out the SIXAXIS sooner or later. Everyone just wondering as to when this well happen and I don't think Inhert is too off with his theory. After the DS3 has been released worldwide they'll probably phase it out I would imagine. It's cheaper to produce 1 version of something rather then 2.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Also in Canada at least they had an Assassin's Creed & CoD4 double pack for the PS3 for like $40-50. Good luck finding it now though.

FELIPE NO

I've been using mine a lot lately too and I haven't had that problem at least yet. Though I'm sure it will be fixed in the next patch or two if enough people are experiancing the issue.

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There is no way to mod a PS3 as of this time.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

For example Ar Tonelico and Growlanser Generations never worked before the latest update, but now they're fine.

Also for thoes trying to argue whether Megalith is right or not it's useless. Megalith is pretty much a videophile / audio quality freak. Not that there's anything wrong with that but the more one knows the more things they notice. Myself personally, I think that 75% of PS2 games look like crap anyway so I don't really care. And all that I do play on it are 2D fighting games, so I wouldn't be able to tell you whether it's better or worse.

But I'm sure the PS3 upscaling is fine for most who can't tell the difference.
(I also have the 60Gb system, so there may be a difference compared to the 80Gb version, I don't know)

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Most definately. Last thing a person wants on their new HDTV is a HUD burn-in of an old NES or SNES game. heh heh

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

It's a long term effect for CRTs. However with LCDs the play time of such stationary things is an hour before having to worry. Or at least this seems to be the common belief.

How far that is from statistical fact I'm sure is something that Megalith would know. However I do not dare to prove the myth right or wrong using my own set. So I stick to the 1 hour rule. Even though I'm usually pretty hard pressed to play any single old-school game for anything more then 40minutes so it's not usually something that I normally have to keep an eye on.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Yeah, I think one other person had their PS3 freeze a couple times on the XMB a couple pages back. I think it has to do with one of the recent updates.

Having played TimeShift myself perhaps your system was just trying to do you a favour

I myself however also had a problem playing motorstorm. What I had to do was go into where the game caches are stored and delete the older version of the game (not your save file). This caused the game to default back to V1.0 and then update from there which worked fine from that point. So give that a shot and see what happens.

I was speaking idiomatically.

So it seems that LCD don't suffer from many issues is this correct?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

It all deends on the person.

I myself usually can't see any noticable difference between 1080P and 720P until 40" + TVs. I don't discount the fact that it's there, it just doesn't make a big enough difference for me until I get towards sets that are larger then that.

Technically anyone can justify anything, but I most certainly can't justify 1080P on anything less then a 40" TV, because personally it's just a waste of money.

I have a 37" Sharp LCD TV and with the excellent black levels, and 4ms refresh rate there's absolutely nothing that I can complain about. Seriously, I had an HD CRT(native 1080i) before that and the black levels on my LCD look just as good.

FELIPE NO

Still nowhere near as bad as the 360's HDD which is "20" Gigs where in fact you only have access to 12 Gigs. (well worse in lost space the PS3 is, but when you only have 20 to begin with it makes it seem a lot worse)

At least in the end you can always upgrade to any larger cheap brand HDD you choose in the future, so it's not all bad.

And yes, it takes about 10 seconds or so after the light starts blinking to shutdown, so no worries.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

They were losing a bit more money on the 20 Gig model mostly because by having such drastically different systems, one which uses outdated HDDs (40Gigs is the industry standard low) the effort just wasn't worth the payoff. Especially after considering how few of the 20 Gigs were produced, and then a smaller number of them actually sold.

But yeah, at this point the HDD differences are just there to determine the different models more then anything.

How ya doing, buddy?

That's really going to suck for all thoes people who invested in HD-DVD though.

I'm pretty sure that if the 360 had an HD-DVD drive in it from launch that the format war would have totally gone in the other direction.

Guess Sony were keeping all the PS3 games locked away until consumers won them the format war. Well we did our part. Now where's Shadow of the Colossus 2?

How ya doing, buddy?

I'm not sure what you're trying to get at, but here's the facts.

-40Gb PS3 has no PS2 software emulation. So whether you could download PS2 games or not (which you can't as of now) there is no emulation software on the system to run them at this time.

-80Gb PS3 has NO hardware emulation and only has 100% software emulation. Therefore no Emotion Engine, no nothing and can still play 95% of PS2 games.

-60/20Gb PS3s HAVE PS2 hardware within and can play 98+% of PS2 games.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Dude. Why won't you listen to us? This is the last time I am saying this.

I have had my PS3 since day 1 and as of this date there are still no PS2 games on the PSN that you can download and play. And I'm including ALL region's PSNs. There are no such things.

I know that Sony have said in the past that they'd like to make PS2 games downloadable via PSN. But considering all the work ahead of them with HOME. No such developments on downloadable PS2 games will likely be made within the next year.

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I know that it's a loosely based reason to post this here. However unless someone wants to create an "HD-DVD VS Blu-Ray" thread I'm posting this here. (yes, I'm that lazy)

Originally Posted by Kotaku

Responding to news that Warner Bros. opted to put its eggs in the basket of Blu-ray exclusively last week, Microsoft execs told Reuters that the company would consider a Blu-ray player add-on for the Xbox 360, should consumers show interest in such a product. Group marketing manager Albert Penello said the decision would be up to "consumer choice; and if that's the way they vote, that's something we'll have to consider." Penello said that he didn't consider that Warner's decision to drop support for HD-DVD would have a "significant impact" on the console war. He also confirmed, in a way, that it was a "bummer."

Anyhow just thought I'd post this here as an interesting development on the Blu-Ray front more then anything.

However I feel that now that the power has been shifted influentually in one competator's direction that the market will support that said format out of sheer want for a single standard, and not so much for actual format superiority. (fortunately the winning format is the better one in my opinion)

I was speaking idiomatically.

God damn it. Ah well thanks for pointing that out. It makes more sense now. I understood what it was saying, I just thought they said it wrong.

8 hours of class and 5 hours at work can start to get to you after a while.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

TV shopping isn't all that hard. From my experiance the quality is split up by price ranges. In other words all $800 HDTV are about the same quality (which is better then crap but not great). While $1200 is quality mid-range HD. And your $2000+ is your high quality sets with all the bells and whistles (and where it's the easiest to get ripped off).

I'm sure that someone like Megalith would have a whole nother take on it, but I'm not a videophile/TV tech expert like him.

Also unless you going to be getting a 40" + set, 1080P isn't really a big deal. But more details on this stuff can be given to you when you get to shopping for a new set. Till then enjoy your new game box ^^

BULLITIN
We PS3 owners need to make the desire for a PSN tag spot in our profiles known to the moderators. Seriously, the Wii got this feature long before which is pratically useless since you need a new code per an individual game.

FELIPE NO

It looks like HD_DVD has seriously lost now. Universal has just announced that they're no longer remaining HD-DVD exclusive. I'll let the story do the talking...

Originally Posted by Kotaku

Is this the final death blow for HD-DVD? Variety is reporting that Universal Studios will follow Warner Bros., New Line and possibly Paramount toward the cooling blue light of Blu-ray allegiance, as the studio's commitment to supporting HD-DVD exclusively has ended. That doesn't necessarily mean that Universal is abandoning the HD-DVD format as Warner plans to, however, as Variety writes that the company still has plans to support the Toshiba backed hi-def discs.

Though HD-DVD backers may still limp along in their support or fanboyism of a movie format, this "war" couldn't look any more like one camp has won at this point. It's all over but the crying, blanket clutching and Michael Bay gloating, it seems.

So no HD-DVD hasn't lost any studious, however Blu-Ray has many studio exclusives such as Disney and Sony studios on top of pratically 100% movie studio access.

What do you guys think? Game over, or can HD-DVD still come back?

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Awesome new avatar. I love KoF, nice to see another supporter. Kof XI RULES!!!!!

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Well they added the downloadable content section to the game during the last update. So I wouldn't be too surprised if new planets were coming sooner or later.

Still can't believe how fast this patch came out. The game must be doing pretty well.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Most games are only in 720P and 480i these days. As things are right now, your 1080P set will not be used to it's maximum potential too often. Mostly only the "big" titles will continue having 1080P support. And as games require more assets in order t run the game itself I feel that less games will support 1080P in the future rather then more.

However by the time the next-gen of systems come around. I'm sure that at least the "PS4" will be 1080P native.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I agree with you that by next generation that 1080P will most likely become a native standard. But with things right now, it'll be harder to make games support 1080P when they're trying to use the console's resources to simply make the games look and run well.

Like I said. High profile games and console exclusives will mostly be in 1080P. But the majority of 3rd party games I don't think will be in it as near as much.

However this is just what I've gathered based off developer interviews. Anything's possible though. As for myself I've got no quarrels with my 720P set. ^^

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.