Posts by Mark 360 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jan 2008
Congratulations. You've been sucked in by the Sony haters, and their made up propaganda.
Where do I start...
Blu-Ray is not a Sony proprietary format. Google for BDA, it's almost every company under the sun (Microsoft and Toshiba aside...)
Betamax was just as proprietary as VHS was (which was owned by JVC), in the same way that SD Card is also a proprietary Panasonic/Sandisk format. Both are used outside their manufacturers, you can get endless other makes of Memory Stick and SD card, as you can readers and other hardware that accepts them. I have photo frames and a laptop that accept Memory Stick, neither are made by Sony..
You also got sucked in by the DRM thing. If you look at Sony products, they have typically LESS DRM than the competition. The current Walkman devices for example, play DRM and DRM-Free music just fine, no proprietary software needed to load music (drag and drop). Compare that to iPod and Zune, which are DRM to the hilt. Playstation3, very relaxed DRM, you can gameshare PSN purchses with upto 6 other users, it's got open standards like DLNA (no closed proprietary formats like the Xbox Extender), the PS3 also supports almost all codecs and open formats out there, Bluetooth controllers using open Bluetooth 2.1 spec, the Xbox supports Microsoft closed formats and very strict DRM.
Nice try at the FUD, buy you might want to try some research before making yourself look silly and uneducated.
No website visiting required. Opera has always notified you with a dialog that a new version is out.
However now it gives you a changelog, downloads it for you automatically, and offers to restart/install now or schedule the install for next restart, whenever that may be, so you can continue to browse.
It's actually quite good.
It's actually very good price for. £250 gets you a 16GB iPod Touch, or a 16GB PSP.
The iPod, error plays music (badly) and plays some mediocre games.
The PSP plays music very well (as like Walkmans, PSP sound pretty darn good), and it's also got a sweet selection of games.
I take it you missed the bit about Gran Turismo, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Pixel Junk Monsters all getting PSP versions.. Several of them release titles...
No it's because
a) The £ is not as strong as it once was.
b) There is import dutry levvied on goods manufacturered outside the EU
c) There is a 1yr minimum manufacturers warranty period in Europe (in US it's 3 months).
d) Thare are many more regions to support.
All these things cost money. God I hate "bedroom experts"...
"Sadly, because of the video leak, Hirai didn’t have much else to add"
Apart from Gran Turismo launching with it? Or the Metal Gear Solid PSP title,, or the exclusive Resident Evil PSP title, or the direct video store...
Sometimes you wonder if any of these journalists actually went to E3, or even watched the presentations...
http://news.cnet.com/crave/?tag=rb_content;overviewHead
A much-hyped software package that uses the Project Natal hardware, Milo was presented as a virtual on-screen boy who could recognize you and carry on an intelligent conversation. The demo video was impressive, but obviously shot in a tightly controlled environment with clearly scripted responses. Talking to several people who got a chance to try out talking to Milo in person behind closed doors, the responses were uniformly disappointed, describing the supposedly realistic Milo to a similar to a Tamagotchi virtual pet, with only very basic interactivity.
At least the Sony offering was real, and not faked.
As mentioned, the Walkmans really do sound fantastic, but only slightly better than a iPod? Come on, iPods are crap in the sound department.
This is how if generally pans out:
If you love music, then you buy a Walkman, Cowon or Samsung.
If you love slick marketing, and don't want to be left out the clique, then you buy an iPod.
LOL, what an idiot. PS3 is outselling the 360...
22m PS3's in 30 months in US (26 in Europe) = 900,000 a month globally on average (calculated by spliting the release dates)
28m 360's in 42 months = 660,000 a month globally on average.
Both sales numbers were from end-of-year reports back in April. Since then, Microsoft have sold another 2m globally, and the PS3 will be around the same.
As for this "news"/PR spin, It's not like you can't already get these services on PS3 (and more like iPlayer and CatchupTV for free), or the much superior PlayTV which can actually record whilst you are playing a game.
Wether they do or they don't. The fact remains there are potentially millions of users that were not aware that once their 360 failed outside the warranty (or failed before the RROD warranty extension was introduced), there was a repair option open to them, so they chucked it away and bought a new one, or Wii/PS3 instead.
Who wants to bet the number of ACTIVE consoles still working, is closer to 25m (very close to PS3 sales count of ~24m).
http://www.twonkymedia.com/installs.html# Pick up the Server updates there, (5.0.61 currently).
There is also a newer build here, which has a a few more issues fixed:
http://www.twonkyforum.com/unsupported/5.0.65/
Anyone know if the Streamium NP2900 supports pushing media to it? It's a shame the review does not mention this.
They promised me it back in 1982...
Clearly even IF consoles are ultimately doomed, it's so far off, its not even news worthy...
TV's are doomed too, because we will have the picture implanted in our brains... Why not make a news story about that? Slow news day????
Sony Walkmans have been drag/drop for about 2 years now, you can use MTP, or as a plain USB device and just drop the stuff in Explorer. They work with Mac and Linux just fine as mass storage devices.
Anyone that thinks a Ipod even comes close to what a Walkman sounds like is clearly deluded (or deaf)..
Finally, If you are a true music lover, you don't care about app stores full of gimmicky things like beer pouring applications and baby beating games.
They can't make a full-blown working Xbox360 yet after 4 years of trying. There really are some cretins about if they think Microsoft can make a MP3 sized player version of a Xbox.
When they say 3d Xbox games, they mean it's got Java or Silverlight support, J2ME like every other mobile phone on the planet...
Anyone else sense this "rumour" has oriignated from the spin-masters at Redmond themselves....
No that impressive considering it's much cheaper than the Wii, PS3 and PSP when launched..
Also unimpressive considering most of those are pre-orders built up over the last couple of months..
To me it looks like a major flop, as I don't know a single person thats even heard of the DSi, let alone itching to buy one for incremental upgrade features...
This just sounds like Nintendo paid for backpatting from ChartTrak...
It's pretty obvious why they havn't done a price cut in the UK. I'll make it simple for you... In the Registers own words...
"Sony hasn’t given a reason for its decision not to cut the PS2’s price in the UK, which currently carries a recommended sale price of £95. The aging console will now also cost £93 in continental Europe."
YES THAT'S RIGHT. £2 DIFFERENCE AFTER THE PRICE CUT. THERE WAS NO UK PRICE CUT BECAUSE IT WAS ALREADY CHEAP HERE.
Some people clearly arn't that smart it seems.... I think even Paris understands this concept...
If I use my PS3 and the webbrowser to view iPlayer services on my plasma, via it's RGB connection, or even muddier, boot PS3 Linux, and use Firefox to view iPlayer catchup, do I need a TV licence???
The PS3 is a console AND a computer, my TV is a TV and a computer monitor....
Simple, UK is English language speaking, so has outside influence from Americans.
That's the same reason why Xbox is selling OK in the UK, but getting reamed in sales in mainland Europe, UK people are influenced by Americans purchasing choice..
It's very easy for Microsoft to manipulate Brits, not so easy to influence non-English speaking countries. Almost all of Microsofts Viral marketing and astroturfing is done in English.
I have a Mininote 2133, and it's by far and away the best of the early crop of netbooks, awesome build quality, fantastic keyboard and screen.
However the 2133 is such good value for £180, I can't really warrant paying double for a 2140 for something that's basically a 2133 with more powerful Intel Atom rather than the Via C7.
The C7 in the 2133 may run hot and be a little on the weedy side, but it's actually perfectly usable (far more usable than the Aspire One and eeepc900 that I tried beforehand).
If the price drops £100, then I'm interested...
You know there are already a tonne of PSP game for download right? Download PSP MediaManager (free download), and it includes a PC version of the Playstation Store, where you can download games, and then copy them to your PSP.
There are some very tasty titles on there too...
If you havn't played EchoChrome, Superstardust or the new Resistance game, then you are missing out...
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