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Sony Shows Off PS3 Dashboard Interface
Gamespot has a rundown on Sony's demo of the PS3 dashboard, looking at the media use options (including music and photos), and the game download elements. From the article: "Harrison selected a slideshow option that arranged his photos as if they were set down on a flat white surface. As he cycled through them, dates were displayed in a handwritten font. Harrison stated that this was an example of one of many slideshow functions that will let people display their photographs in unique ways. The ornate interactivity comes courtesy of the PS3's RSX processor, which allows photos to be moved around like 3D objects." To see it firsthand, 1up has video of the interface demo.
Did you even read the Slashdot blurb? Here, just the important part:
The ornate interactivity comes courtesy of the PS3's RSX processor, which allows photos to be moved around like 3D objects.
See that? That's in the Slashdot blurb. You didn't even need to go through the trouble of reading the linked story. Sony is claiming that due to the awesome power of the PS3, they can show pictures. Amazing, huh? Showing pictures on a computer. I think I've been doing that ever since, oh, you know, I owned a PC.
But wait, there's more. They can move pictures around like 3D objects. This definitely needs the power of the RSX and isn't something any intro to computer graphics course would teach someone to do in software.
Read the article. I know this is Slashdot and no one does it, but give it a try.
The next section on the media bar was the photo option, which will feature enhanced functionality thanks to the PS3's graphics processor and the cell.
Wow, enhanced functionality due to the RSX and the cell! To display pictures on a TV at that!
The next tab was the music section, which featured a 3D visualizer that used the RSX to create images in time with the music being played.
3D visualizations! Amazing! We haven't had those since Winamp was released or anything!
The last section of the PS3 media bar was the Web browser, which Harrison showed was capable of displaying multiple windows.
Multiple windows! How impressive! A web browser that has multiple windows!
Sony was suggesting that all these amazing features are only possible because of the RSX and the Cell. So, yes, they think they're amazingly impressive that they can do things that people have been doing for the past 15 years at least.
Get your head out of Sony's ass and admit that they just shot themselves in the foot yet a-freaking-gain.
> Even so, 7MHz A5/600s can play MP3s, and have been used in kiosk and mobile projectsm l.
> http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~utaba/A600/A600-e.ht
You're wrong. Look at the details again. The Amiga is not actually playing the MP3s.