Progress updates; ongoing discussion…
Prepare yourself for complete and utter devastation — presenting a Dashhacks exclusive, from our very own talented Dashhacker — PS3 Remote Play: successfully reverse engineered, authentication system broken, and a portable API on the way.
What does this mean? Well for starters you’ll soon be accessing your PS3 from just about anywhere — your PC, your iPhone, your whatchamacallit, and whatever other Internet-enabled device.
Stay tuned, for real.
Alright, now, this is awesome. We know most of our readers are most likely 100% Blu-ray loyal and probably didn’t even know HD DVD existed, but if you happen to own some HD DVDs because you were an early adopter or whatever, you may be happy to know that someone out there is willing to take your crappy HD DVD disc off your hands and upgrade you to a much nicer and superior Blu-Ray disc for a low fee of $4.95USD.
Now, Now, before you go all crazy and complain about the $5USD fee, you got to admit a $5USD upgrade fee is nothing compared to going out and buying the blu-ray copy of whatever movie you have on HD DVD. It’s a great deal! Unfortunately, you still have to pay for shipping but it’s still less than going to buy a blu-ray movie at your local Wal-Mart or Fry’s store. Now, excuse me, I got to upgrade my HD DVDs to Blu-Ray!
Note: This is only for HD DVDs from Warner Bros. – Wish more companies would do this, one can only hope!
- source: red2blu.com
Gamasutra reports an interesting new job listing at Netflix seeking an “Engineering Leader — Gaming Platforms.” The applicant is expected to have experience developing and testing media rich applications, and should be prepared to “rapidly prototype and iterate on a variety of platforms.”
What do you guys think? Is Netflix entering the video game streaming world or is Netflix movie streaming coming to other consoles, such as the PS3? Considering the relative success and partnership with the Xbox 360, it would not be surprising if the company expands its service to other customers. Netflix on the PS3 would be an amazing add-on, it’s the only thing I use my Xbox 360 for nowadays, so lets hope it happens and Sony/Netflix do it right.
Well, it’s finally out and unfortunately it’s not what we all expected and were hoping for… The only thing significant this update brings is Text Chat. Text Chat allows you to communicate with your PSN buddies allowing up to 15 friends; you’ll be able to chat using the wireless keypad, on-screen keyboard, or other compatible keyboard. You will be able to access this while playing a game too – so yay. Also, you will be able to participate in up to 3 chat rooms at once.
Other things this update brings: (Nothing amazingly epic but whatever)
Friends list on the XMB (XrossMediaBar)
Video delivery service on PlayStation Store
Well, that’s it. Go update your PS3 and give Sony hell for supplying us with such a crappy update!
- source: blog.us.playstation.com
