puppydg68

You can do networking with a WDTV1 using modified firmware. www.wdtvforum.com
I have full 1080p network support, RSS feed and weather all displaying to my WDTV 1


My guess is WD took the best ideas from the modified firmware and incorporated it into wdtv2

I really hate how MS throws around that $600 figure.. a more fair comparison is $400 xbox premium vs $500 PS3 core

PS3 core $500
20 GB hard Drive (included)
Hi-Def media player Bluray (Included)
Wireless controller (included)
Rechargable Battery + Charge cable (included)
HDMI
Component Cable ($20.99)

Xbox 360 Premium ($400)
20 GB hard Drive
HD-DVD addon ($179 additional)
Wireless controller (included)
Rechargable battery + Charge kit ($34 additional)
HDMI (not available)
Component Cable (included)

Now I realize not everyone wants or needs them, but it's definately a more accurate portrayal.. Why is somethat that has a difference of less than $100 always being touted as $600 and expensive.

In fact if you take the $600 premimum PS3 and compare it with what it would cost you to upgrade your Xbox premimum it costs more.

Premium Xbox 360 $400
HD-DVD add-on $179
Wifi adapter $89
Charge + play kit + battery $35
= $705
And you don't have the SD media reader and the extra 40 gigs of disk space.

Again granted not everyone wants it all but for those who do, looking at hardware features and costs, it's not as unbalanced as the press always reports.

There is an option in the new dashboard for PS3 to auto-boot other operating system.. People will just auto-boot linux, load up their favorite linux media center mythv and get their divx and all other codec support that way on PS3.

To the comments on sony not supporting divx/xvid.. It will come unoffcially on PS3 via the free linux distro and the homebrew abilities build in to ps3. Mythtv for linux will run on this distro already. It sure would be nice to see XBMC ported to linux, so PS3 users could use it too.

MS has a nice interface upgrade for Media Center if you use Vista, but not additional codec support :(

I seriously can't believe the xbox fanboys can complain about this. Sony has included a feature that allows the users to chose if they want to cut load times down.

Remember Xbox1 - Microsoft pre-set a certain amount of space for game caching, and you had no control over that, and the space was instantly lost. So what is the problem here, Sony gives you a choice.

Xbox 360 - well because the hard drive is not standard, developers are more limited with what they are able to do (many interviews indicating this) so as a result of the CORE decision, MS gamers lose out.

PS3 - Hard drive standard gives the developers more options, and genji is giving the players the option of reducing load time, how is that bad? If you read, it's a feature, not forced.

This is also an example of 1 game out of a launch of 21 games.. No-one said that this will be all games, or that all games require this. My guess is many games will take advantage of the HD to cache data while you play, to help speed things up and reduce the seeking on the optical drive.

I really don't see how anyone can start to complain about this optional feature.. you don't like it, then don't install it. I own a Xbox360 and I like it, but yeah on game games i kinda wish I had the option to cut down some load times, would I be willing to sacrfice some space on my Xbox HD to speed up the game I'm currently playing or my favorite game.. I probably would, If you would rather play slower and reserve space for other downloads, all the power to you. but no need complain here about it.

Many of the Xbox1 games do this silently, and I'm sure the PS3 games will also do this silently, Genji is likely unique in this install feature due to the way it was programmed. Many of the current xbox games will store damage data etc onto the hard drives so that things you destroyed will still be destroyed when you come back to them. Many also cache the music data to the hard drive so that the optical drive isn't seeking so much during game play while loading textures and playing music. There are many ways a console can use the hard drive. It's great that it's a standard feature because all of the ps3 programmers can count on having it available, like for Xbox1. However Xbox 360's biggest mistake was the core version, since now no programmers can count on it being there. There have been a few interviews with the 360 devs who said they had to remove features because of this lack of a standard hard drive.. Microsoft had said that when they develop the games it should work on both the core and premium systems.

The demos are a commercial for the game, I'm sure sony and developers will come to an agreement with regards to who pays for this, my gut tells me it won't be the consumer. Both sony and the developer win if people buy the games.. How do you get them to buy the games, give them a sample via the demo.

We might all be jumping at what was said in the interview text. Lets wait and see how it works out. I don't think someone like EA is going to release a demo on xbox 360 for free, and charge for it on PS3.. They want to get that demo to everyone possible to increase their game sales.

"They refused to license rumble for their controller, they refused to license a proven web browser, and don't forget BluRay which only came into existance because Sony refused the DVD Forum's decision to license technology from Toshiba for high definition DVDs. I'm not impressed with Sony's way of doing business."

While I'm don't know the specifics of the deal, but everywhere I read that the 2 parties couldn't come to an agreement over a common platform. I do however know that the proposal was to use Blu-ray's technology for it's superier capacity, and Toshiba's Security for it's superiority. Both companies couldn't come to the agreement here, and the consumers suffer.

"es, you got in line and preordered. I was at the preorder too, I was 11 in line at an EB that had 10 PS3's. I was there at 5 in the morning. 5 of those PS3's are going to be sold on ebay most likely for close to 1,000 dollars. Some 12 year old who just wants the newest fad and has rich parents is going to get it now, denying me, someone who has played games for 20 years now, a chance to get it."

You can't base arguments on assumptions like that.. Lets assume there is a regular post-grad who's been playing games for 20 years, who had to work on pre-order morning, goes and buys it on ebay for $1000, how is that person any different than you? Not all of the ebay'd ps3 are going to spoiled rich kids, thats an unfair statement to make.. In the end it's the hardcore guys who will wake up early and the ones who pay higher prices on ebay.. People who want the console will get it this christmas via whatever means they are willing to accept. One person stands in line early, another who either can't stand in line (work) or would rather pay a $300 premuium not to do that.

"I'm looking forward to the first stories about little Jimmy watching porn sites on his shiny new PS3 with browser."

I guess it'll be no different than the obscene webcam pictures that are being sent out to random gamertags on the Xbox Live network.

These things will happen, and the companies will respond.