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PlayStation Network Expanding To Involve Other Devices
At CES, Sony's Kaz Hirai confirmed that the company will build out its PlayStation Network for use with other devices, such as televisions, Blu-ray players, and PCs. Quoting:
"... the expansion starts next month with the availability of the PSN video store on these other devices, and Hirai explained they are constructing a mechanism to create a single user ID across the entire network (if you have a PSN account, it's good to go on any other applicable Sony device, and if you create one on another device, it'll work on PSN). And finally, Hirai also announced the formation of a new Sony division — called Sony Network Entertainment, Inc. — to drive this expansion of the PSN service into a Sony-wide network."
I for one welcomed our new SNES overlords, until I realized it stood for Sony Network Entertainment (Subsidiary).
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(but you might want to stream over your local network instead of the internet)
If they start having Blu-ray players for the HD TVs on the market with a hard drive, you could Download movies over the psn. and if they go that route you'll see alot more content for purchase online, maybe even blu-ray quality rentals right to your ps3? Purchases are now starting to all have digital copies, so in practice, if you buy one it should work on your pc, and or psp.
They have also been in the works for some partnership over 3D broadcasting and movies for launch in 2012. This new PSN may become more useful for them in these new intrests over the next two years.
I can see a lot of uses for this, if you don't have a PS3 for example.
Turn on TV, go to PSN, start up VidZone.. Music videos right there on your TV, with no extra devices.
Just to name one.
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If they start having Blu-ray players for the HD TVs on the market with a hard drive, you could Download movies over the psn.
Be nice if you could do that on the PS3 for countries other than the US.
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Be still my heart. You mean, I'll be able to watch music videos on my own TV? OMG!
Didn't MTV do this almost three decades ago?
Yeah but MTV doesn't do that in this decade.
I've long thought that consoles could be much better (from a user standpoint) if they were more open.
One example of this is the recent debacle with servers arguably shutting down "too soon" compared to other game types that aren't susceptible to that issue. Another example is that some people have several different consoles in order to play their favourite games and/or with their friends; this is of course a sales strategy for the vendors but not really in the interest of the consumer.
This news, of Sony expanding their console's reach essentially to outside the domain of the console itself, is good news for consumers: it shows that the boundaries are becoming hazy -- and you can't maintain strict lockdown on blurry borders. Ultimately, this ends up providing more choice for the user.
Now sadly, "more user choice" is not equal to "more user freedom" -- especially since this news is coming from Sony, peddlers of lockdownware above and beyond the call of duty. But still, if they are doing it, the other vendors are bound to follow.
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Why? Of what use is a network connected television? Unless I plan to stream from my PS3 over the internet to my TV, rather than using HDMI, I can't quite see the point of this.
Fewer Set-Top Boxes. Actually that's part of the problem. With narrow TVs you might not even be able to HAVE a set-top box. Maybe a sitting on the floor next to the set boxes. So reducing the number of boxes at the TV is one advantage.
Networks are designed to send data over longer distances than traditional technologies like HDMI. The challenge of sending video data over 100' via Cat5 is trivial. Try doing that with an HDMI cable, or even component cables.
And consider firmware upgrades to your TV. They could implement at USB port so you could transfer the files that way... but why go to that trouble when a network port would give you the ability to transfer files AND receive video streams over distances greater than 6'.
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Sony recalled CDs with the rootkit, and apologized. Sony has its flaws, but they after the initial fuck-up, they at least fixed the problem, and admitted they fucked up. They handled their fuck-up in an honorable way.
That is far better than many corporations, such as Microsoft. You own an XBox? Microsoft has fucked you more than Sony ever has. And Microsoft never admits a problem, let alone apologize for creating a problem.
So stop with the rootkit bullshit already. Start complaining about Sony's tendency to go it solo on digital formats and storage devices. (BluRay was at least created and backed by a consortium of many corporations -- so BluRay isn't one of those formats. Sony does get a cut of the profits, though.) Complain about how PSN kinda blows compared to XBox Live (though this article suggests Sony is doing something about that). Whine about how the PS3 is hard to program compared to the XBox.
But for god's sake, get it through your thick fanboi skull that Sony fixed the rootkit problem, and even apologized.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
Don't worry, Sony has a long history of avoiding DRM in their products.
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Sony recalled CDs with the rootkit, and apologized. Sony has its flaws, but they after the initial fuck-up, they at least fixed the problem, and admitted they fucked up. They handled their fuck-up in an honorable way.
Oh sure ,they recalled the CDs alright. After denying the existance of it for close to a year first despite all the evidence people showed them and hackers started actively using it. Their "Fix" for those that already had been compromised by their rootkit actually caused more security holes too. Meaning once you had it you were pretty much stuck with having to reinstall your OS to make sure it was no longer at risk.
It was, by my counts, FAR from an honorable way. But it was very Sony.
Somehow, I think that if I had placed a rootkit on Sony corporate PCs I would not have gotten away with just an apology.
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