Karl

Well, there's a large demand for it, so it's probable Sony would add it. The PS3 has enough trouble right now, so adding something like this would be welcomed by current and future owners. Now they've settled with Immersion, they can finally add it.

The reason games haven't used more than one DVD is because it's a poorer experience. Developers have been clamouring for more disk space since the 360 was introduced. Read some of the questions asked at the X0x conferences - there are quite a few pleas to use the HDDVD drive. Mass Effect barely fit on to a DVD, as did Project Gotham.

It's an extra limitation. That leads to more developer effort (and consequently higher dev costs), or a scaled-down experience. Sony keeps pushing around this "ten year plan" phrase, and seeing the problems with Microsoft's insistence on DVD, it's a lot easier to believe the PS3 is a long-term console.

Well, this should help the Santa Rosa refresh, which we should see at the CES in January.

In leopard it does.

Also, a UNIX core is certainly why I'm switching. Most engineering apps are made for Unix, but Linux is just not a good GUI OS. It's powerful, but it's just not as easy to use out of the terminal or feature rich as OSX. Besides, Apple have some great hardware, especially in the portable market.

DisplayPort is very much an HDMI competitor. I'd much prefer to see new monitors coming out with HDMI ports than DP ports. It is meant for computers rather than digital media, but here's the question - why _should_ there be a difference? A display is a display, why make it harder to mix and match for the hardware you want in a particular situation? That's why we love standards.

Onec they've got the DVR software done, I can't see a reason not to release a cable or DVB-S tuner.

Besides, if you're in the UK (and I imagine it's a similar story elsewhere), Freeview offers loads of channels. Check it out, it's actually pretty decent. And there's BBC-HD int esting (alas no OFCOM spectrum allocation for HDTV)

oh God, not another "standard". I don't see any advantage over HDMI. They both have the same bandwidth (10Gbit/s forward), and thus the same maximum resolution. They both allow audio and video on the same cable. The only real difference is the physical connectors.

Oh, and the fact that they're not interoperable. Naturally.

Actually Engadget, unlike the 360, the PS3 allows you to put in your own hard drive. It's very easy to do, well explained in the manual, so you can upgrade the storage to whatever size drive you can find.

As for the FAT limit, that's imposed on external drives. NTFS (the majority filesystem) is closed-source. There are open-source efforts to try and create a filesystem driver for linux (NTFS-3G), but it has severe limitations and isn't of production quality just yet.

I very much like this idea. It's funny how people flame the effort to add a tuner, yet those same people applauded the 360's media center extender functionality. Media Centers are awesome devices, and I'm glad to see them proliferating.

if I were you, I'd ask them to postpone the order another week (or cancel). Just in case.

ahh. Sorry to spam, but it seems you can't use characters like square brackets from Safari in Windows.

First time I've seen 1080i/1080p referred to as 1920. Just bound to confuse people more than they already are with HD resolutions, with all this "HD-Ready" "HD-Capable" and "TrueHD" rubbish.