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Future Blu-ray Movies To Come With Playable Game Demos

Posted by Soulskill on from the confluence-of-media dept.

Audiofan writes "Enthusiasts have long suggested the PlayStation 3 to their family and friends as one of the better and most affordable Blu-ray players. Lately, prices of Blu-ray players have been coming down, but the PS3 is still one of the better options out there. Sony is taking advantage of this by starting to offer game demos on their Blu-ray offerings. While these demos will only be playable on the PS3, they hope the extra value will help drive sales."

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  1. Re:Too easy... by The+Dancing+Panda · · Score: 3, Informative

    The greeks did that to the trojans. The trojans had an unbreakable wall. I think that's the idea.

  2. Matroska can contain the whole DVD menus and all! by bornagainpenguin · · Score: 2, Informative

    One of the reasons I haven't bothered to try and rip my DVD collection is that no format will *preserve* those menus (and all the content they provide access to), save for a straight ISO rip, which has the problem of immense size.

    I believe it is possible to do exactly this with Matroska, as described here.

    --bornagainpenguin

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  3. PS3 *CAN* be used as a DVR by 117 · · Score: 4, Informative
    From TFA:

    just about the only thing you can't do with a PS3 is use it as a DVR.

    This might be true in the US, but in other regions the PlayTV hardware add-on enables you to do exactly that. PlayTV allows you to watch live free-to-air TV and HDTV through the PS3, and record those programs to the PS3's hard drive. I bought the PlayTV add-on (I'm in the UK) as it was cheaper than buying a standalone DVR for free-to-air broadcasts, and have found it to be easier to use and far more reliable than the standalone alternatives available here

  4. Re:Blu-ray is dead. by DrXym · · Score: 2, Informative

    That "dead on arrival" format is experiencing growth comparable to DVD in its day. And even if it did die for whatever reason so what? Tools like AnyDVD make it fairly straightforward to rip the content to HDD at which point you have a high quality 1080p movie which will be good for years to come.

  5. Re:Too easy... by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 2, Informative

    More likely she was just tired of being married to some old king who obviously wasn't a very nice person as he was willing to kill his own daughter to please Poseidon.

    That was Agamemnon, not his brother Menelaus. Agamemnon's wife Clytemnestra got to show him what she thought of that when he got home from the war.