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Zanchief wrote:The problem is Sony is pretty inept at most things. They keep screwing up no-brainer decision like the price point for movies on PSN. Distribution of PSP games. Play Station Home? I actually think MS has much better innovators on their side, but they're just greedier. Not including a built in HD-Movie player was just a way to lower the price of their console. Having the user pay for gold accounts, having that shitty XBL monopoly money. All the things that annoy me about XBox are greedy moves, the things that annoy me about Sony are boneheaded decisions.
Zanchief wrote:The Wii2? Um no, the console war is a two man race right now. Nintendo is dead to me. Hopefully the new PSP will start to dent the DS market (unlikely) so we can finally get quality handheld games.
Pick your poison. I hate something about all of them.
Lyion wrote:Nintendo may be dead for you, but they have a good chunk of the console market share. Their new console will be more powerful than the 360 and PS3 and probably be backwards compatible. It will probably also have something innovative, as well.
Zanchief wrote:It's still an extra step with seems like a waste when I already have something that will work better. Streaming directly from my computer isn't beneficial since neither my PS3 nor XBox are wired to my PC and streaming through a wireless network will defenitately lag.
Zanchief wrote:
Well I don't claim to be an expert with all this stuff
Zanchief wrote:but how can you play something on your XBox directly from an ISO? You must have a hacked XBox to launch image files as if they were real discs? Either way it's all too much trouble for since, as mentioned above, the PS# does all this by default.
Zanchief wrote:And am I to believe you rip the discs you physically own? That can't be easier then just taking them out of the case and putting them in your player. I assumed you did this with rentals and what not to save on costs or to sell the BR discs afterwards.
Tikker wrote:transcoding. You have to connect the xbox or ps3 to a pc (networked, doesn't matter wired or wireless) and your pc ON THE FLY changes it into a format the xbox/ps3/ipod/whatever understands. process to set it up takes less than 2 minutes (depending on how fast your internet connection to download tversity is)
Zanchief wrote: As for the streaming wireless thing, I don't know if I can trust you since you said Pimpstreamer for PSP wouldn't lag over wireless network and it was really choppy and worthless.
Zanchief wrote:So tversity is a PC side client that will do this? Both my PS3 and XBox are already setup on my network. I will PM you with inevitable questions.
I don't really have any need to store my BRs on a HD. I don't mind loading the discs by hand.
Tossica wrote:HD space needed for an entire BR collection would be ridiculous. 20+gigs per disc. I stream a lot of stuff but there's no comparison between a streamed 5.1 soundtrack and a lossless HD soundtrack.
Tikker wrote:Tossica wrote:HD space needed for an entire BR collection would be ridiculous. 20+gigs per disc. I stream a lot of stuff but there's no comparison between a streamed 5.1 soundtrack and a lossless HD soundtrack.
so why not stream the HD soundtrack?
you're not making a lot of sense
and yes BR space is ridiculous
but it's dirt fucking cheap
2TB drives are running less than 100 bucks these days (that's american, so like 85 cents in real canadian currency) and it's relatively cheap and easy to build a quad core machine, with 4-6 of these 2TB drives for under 600 bucks
ie, not a huge amount more than a nice book shelf, with WAY more functionality
Tossica wrote:
Because the HD soundtrack is not available in any form but Blu-Ray. I'm not about to setup and 10tb server to keep movies on when they already create convenient discs that are easily stored.
Tikker wrote:Tossica wrote:
Because the HD soundtrack is not available in any form but Blu-Ray. I'm not about to setup and 10tb server to keep movies on when they already create convenient discs that are easily stored.
I think you meant to say:
Because the HD soundtrack is not available in any form but Blu-Ray and I went HD-DVD
Tossica wrote:Games are different than music/movies. Besides the pack-ins that sometimes came in games (maps, books, etc) there's no quality lost in not having the media. The same can't be said with compressed video/audio.
Lyion wrote:Try to think green. You're killing the planet, Toss!
Tossica wrote:What a shame that most people don't value having something physical these days. At least records are making a resurgence.
Tossica wrote:What a shame that most people don't value having something physical these days. At least records are making a resurgence.
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