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JamminR:
Ok, I've not verified anywhere else on the net...and it seems fishy due to the date the firmware is supposed to be released (Apr 1), but, Sony is supposedly removing the ability to install other operating systems on it's PS3s.

I won a PS3 two to three years ago.
Though I'd never installed any other OS on it, I was waiting for the day that I could. That is, the day that someone got 'root' access to it's full hardware features.
I don't play games (much, only own 2 or 3) on mine, but I do use mine as a BluRay player, and, to stream music, videos, pictures from the web and from a media server I have set up in another location of my house.
The PS3 requires that I use a trans-coder for many of those formats.

I'd hoped one day the quality of a linux or other OS would allow me to not have to rely on the CPU of the server to do the heavy work, and still allow full BR-Disc decoding.

Thanks again Sony.... I appreciate you yet again changing my options in a bad way.
Let me introduce you to a great developer. His name is Garry Newman, and he too appreciates extra security implemented in ways that annoy more good than they do bad.

MrPresident:
What's a PS3?















:o

JamminR:
Having trouble from the emo telling if you're being sarcastic or not.
Just in case you're not, PlayStation 3
If you are, well, yeah, I won it...kept it because its a darn good media streaming device (DLNA) and one of the first few BluRay players available.
Plays a game or too nicely also, but, I'm not a console gamer.
Wife and I like the Motorstorm series... it came with the first one... she got us Pacific Rift for Christmas.

MrPresident:
Yeah, haha. I know what PS3 stands for. ;) It was sarcastic. Myself... not being a console guy either.. my last console.. ironically was the PS1.. yeah buddy.. unless you count the DS which I gave away or the PSP which I bought before I deployed but only played like.. 3 times...

Frrz:

--- Quote from: JamminR on March 29, 2010, 03:36:17 PM ---Having trouble from the emo telling if you're being sarcastic or not.
Just in case you're not, PlayStation 3
If you are, well, yeah, I won it...kept it because its a darn good media streaming device (DLNA) and one of the first few BluRay players available.
Plays a game or too nicely also, but, I'm not a console gamer.
Wife and I like the Motorstorm series... it came with the first one... she got us Pacific Rift for Christmas.

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