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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 urIkon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm amazed you can exhibit such foresight from under that bridge!

    I often scoff at marketing ploys, but game demos are a good thing. As long as this doesn't increase the price of the discs, this is more value for your dollar- it isn't as if you have to play the demo to watch your movie.

    Now, just watch them bundle some highly anticipated game demo exclusively with some crap film- SURPRISE HOME MOVIE SALES HIT OF THE SUMMER!

  2. Re:Too easy... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    It isn't a trojan if there is a cryptic reference to it somewhere in our illegibly tiny 55 page EULA...

  3. Re:Too easy... by Idiomatick · · Score: 5, Funny
    I never understood why a condom brand would want to associate itself with the trojans.

    Buy our brand. When you have sex the girl won't even notice you infiltrating, then once inside all your little soldiers will pop out and reek havok. Then you can tell her, 'Haha, Suprise!'

  4. Re:Blu-ray is dead. by MichaelSmith · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In recent years I have rented two DVDs where the previews were unskippable. Thats annoying. And in the future:

    This disk has been licensed for three viewers. To proceed beyond the anti pirating presentation your player must detect three viewers facing the screen with eyes open for the entire 20 minutes.

    --
    http://michaelsmith.id.au
  5. I'm so over these stupid shiny plastic discs by matty619 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I really hope that bluray is the last of this shiny plastic disc phenomenon. I had a somewhat respectable VHS collection, then amassed a healthy DVD collection, jumped on the HD-DVD bandwagon with the HD player add-on for the 360 before that battle was lost, and now I've got about the same number of bluray discs.

    We've been told time and again, when you buy an album, or a copy of a movie, you don't *own* that copy, you have merely licensed it. So I'm not allowed to make a backup for personal use of the copy of my license, when the new format comes out, I have to buy a new "license" for the IP I have already licensed.... I am sooo ready to simply "license" movies via a Netflix like subscription service....I'll pay $20/month (less than the cost of 2 premium cable TV channels) if I can "rent" any movie I like on the fly. I've already got a 20 Mb/s internet connection, and with DOCSIS 3.0 coming to my area next year, should be fast enough to stream reasonably compressed HD content. No more need to buy and keep track of fragile little discs...or have to re-purchase when the next format comes out 12 years later.

    I'm just over it.

  6. 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