I'm guessing that it will PlayForSure. They've been banging on about the PS3 replacing your PC recently; if absolutely nothing else I expect any downloaded music to sync with a PSP or mp3 Walkman device from Sony.
Particularly when they seem to have ignored the fact that you can buy titles from the XBox Live Arcade with merely the free Silver subscription.
It currently appears that all three "next gen" consoles (i.e. PS3, Wii, 360) will allow you to download old games in an iTMS stylee. The success that Microsoft have had with Geometry Wars kind of made it inevitable, I suppose.
Wow, who would have thought that an Associated Newspapers title would contain sloppy journalism and intentionally distorted claims to make this sound like a bigger deal than it really is?
I take it you're being sarky, yes? Only you've done it well enough I'm not entirely sure you didn't miss the announcement of the Nike+ system that has a pedometer pocket in the trainer, and then a bluetooth connection from it to a device plugged in the bottom of the Nano to communicate your performance in realtime over the earphones.
It was the Uware2 to Uware 7 jump that did it, if I remember. Explaining to clients why we sold two completely different versions of our products, depending on which release you ran was _fun_.
Particularly when try tried to force a patch for one over the other.
Yes, the really nice thing is that instead of a costly proprietary thing, the PSP-PS2 connection cable is exactly the same standard mini USB to full-size USB that my digital camera and Memory Stick reader use.
Which, by the way, will apparently be supported on PS3, so the lack of a built-in cardreader is only an aesthetic problem on the $500 model.
Go get yourself OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast for both the PS2 and PSP. It's an excellent game anyway, but more relevant is that you can connect the two over USB, no Wifi required.
The "Average" BluRay movie is only a single-layer disc, so 25Gb max. There are rumours floating around that they might have Black Hawk Down lined up for the end of the year as a test run of dual-layer discs, but so far they're unconfirmed.
So far, the HD-DVD releases have had video at around the 20Gb mark, and then a selection of different audio formats. Every company going dual format is using the same video encode for both, and then playing with the amount of audio and extras to make them fit appropriately.
My music tracks from Bleep.com work just fine. As do the ones from Underworld. As do my audiobooks from Audible.
If EMI didn't insist on DRM, their shop would work too.
If they do want DRM options, I prefer to think it less a case of Apple not wanting to license their own system, and refusing to license Microsoft's. It's a feature the iPod is missing.
But then, most players out there don't bother to license the unencrypted AAC format, and Apple are quite happy to do that. Sony's PSP plays them, but their Walkman machines don't. Which is odd.
"The premium subscription service tier uses Microsoft's Janus DRM technology"
The free version doesn't, and you can't play them on those minority brands of iPodalikes. But it's the free version that is the innovative aspect here; the premium service is effectively just EMI's own version of the Napster subscription, and so likely to be no more successful.
On the other hand, how many people who actually care about the Beatles have passed by the continual opportunities to buy the songs on CD?
Sure, they were a popular band, but if you want an album, you've probably got it by now. It's not like they've released anything new you need to catch up with.
Yes, it's yet another online music service whose music won't work on iPods.
In fact, since they're using their own custom DRM and relying on you seeing adverts while you listen (how many people look at the screen while listening to music, then?) it won't work with other portable players, either.
So why are you going to want this, other than for the free version to try out tracks occasionally (and possibly record them to a less encumbered format)?
I can't speak for the original poster, but the context of the game is a big thing. Rhythm-action games are generally used as party games; it's about a bunch of people together having fun, rather than trying to 'beat' a challenge like Halo. There's no big 'plot' to speak of, you're just perfoming some easy songs, then some more difficult ones as the difficulty advances.
Also, music-based games rely in no small part on the music itself. I'd be mightily pissed-off if the next SingStar game made me spend hours practicing my Ricky Martin before I could get to the Blur I bought it for, and the same goes for Guitar Hero's playlist.
Part of me is still a bit miffed I'll never get to try the Level 5 songs on Frequency, for example, because they only exist in Hard, and that's far too much for me to cope with.
You're still running at 800x600? Really? I can't remember the last time I saw a screen that couldn't do at least 1024x768. Because that's all you need to go to in order to get an improvement with a HD format. These laptops will probably be shipping with HD-resolution LCDs to match.
Yes, but Sony are specifically trying to sell the PSP on its media capabilities - displaying pictures, playing music and video files, surfing the net. I recently bought one myself for its ability to play OutRun 2006, so I'm not knocking the ability to play games as well, but that wasn't the point of their last ad campaign.
As I said before, the real reason for Convergence devices is that everything has a fairly general-purpose CPU in it these days. Video playback is so close to free with all the other features they have designed it for, that they would be mad to deliberately exclude it.
Next time there's an iPod topic (and lets face it, that won't take long round/.) see how many people continue to criticise it for not having a radio, not having a line-in to record with, or other random, non-essential features that similar devices have as it is.
Given the number of low-resolution xvid files flying back and forth across the internet, and the number who think 4 hour realtime recording on a single-layer DVD is just fine and dandy, I'm guessing you're right about VHS...
The Grandparent's Loewe does have an unusually good scaler in it, while the Samsung is generally thought to be one of the worst.
In your instance, I'd recommend getting a player with built-in scaling; Oppo Digital's one is generally thought to be brilliant for the price, but curiously enough the Toshiba $500 HD-DVD player is as good if not better. So if you're feeling really brave, you might consider getting one and treat the actual HD-DVD capabilities as a worthwhile risk.
That depends on how you measure quality, though. You're counting the number of lines, others count the number of pixels - the horizonal resolution goes up along with the vertical.
This is a kind of self-selection, though. Merely by affording a 90" or larger HD-capable display, you're more likely to be able to afford a HD movie format. How large do you think that market is, though? 5% of US TVs? 10%? Worldwide it's a lot lower.
You may well really need a HD movie format. Much of the DVD-buying audience have 32" or smaller TVs, where DVD's resolution is just fine, thanks. Certainly, I don't know anyone in the UK with a TV big enough to desperately need HD.
"You don't have to make blu-ray the key feature if you don't want to."
Well, you do if you're going to explain to prospective owners of your product that they'll be wanting to buy from the BluRay section of Blockbuster, and not the HD-DVD one.
Well, only Universal has EXCLUSIVELY pledged support to HD-DVD. Sony are obviously Blu-Ray exclusive and Fox are in that camp for the moment, but most of the others are fence-sitting by either planning for both, or publicly letting it be known that they'll jump if HD-DVD does well in the next 6 months or so.
You did indeed mention it, but then you went on to suggest that the PSP is a good thing, so you clearly aren't that serious.
Being less sarcastic, Apple had a device that had a colour screen (because they look nice and they wanted to display album art, and more generally photos), tonnes of storage space and a reasonable amount of processor power.
Just as with the PSP, why _not_ allow it to play videos? You don't have to use the functionality, and deliberately removing it wouldn't save enough money to bother.
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I'm guessing that it will PlayForSure. They've been banging on about the PS3 replacing your PC recently; if absolutely nothing else I expect any downloaded music to sync with a PSP or mp3 Walkman device from Sony.
Particularly when they seem to have ignored the fact that you can buy titles from the XBox Live Arcade with merely the free Silver subscription.
It currently appears that all three "next gen" consoles (i.e. PS3, Wii, 360) will allow you to download old games in an iTMS stylee. The success that Microsoft have had with Geometry Wars kind of made it inevitable, I suppose.
Wow, who would have thought that an Associated Newspapers title would contain sloppy journalism and intentionally distorted claims to make this sound like a bigger deal than it really is?
Oh. Everyone. Never mind, carry on.
I take it you're being sarky, yes? Only you've done it well enough I'm not entirely sure you didn't miss the announcement of the Nike+ system that has a pedometer pocket in the trainer, and then a bluetooth connection from it to a device plugged in the bottom of the Nano to communicate your performance in realtime over the earphones.
It was the Uware2 to Uware 7 jump that did it, if I remember. Explaining to clients why we sold two completely different versions of our products, depending on which release you ran was _fun_.
Particularly when try tried to force a patch for one over the other.
Yes, the really nice thing is that instead of a costly proprietary thing, the PSP-PS2 connection cable is exactly the same standard mini USB to full-size USB that my digital camera and Memory Stick reader use.
Which, by the way, will apparently be supported on PS3, so the lack of a built-in cardreader is only an aesthetic problem on the $500 model.
Go get yourself OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast for both the PS2 and PSP. It's an excellent game anyway, but more relevant is that you can connect the two over USB, no Wifi required.
The "Average" BluRay movie is only a single-layer disc, so 25Gb max. There are rumours floating around that they might have Black Hawk Down lined up for the end of the year as a test run of dual-layer discs, but so far they're unconfirmed.
So far, the HD-DVD releases have had video at around the 20Gb mark, and then a selection of different audio formats. Every company going dual format is using the same video encode for both, and then playing with the amount of audio and extras to make them fit appropriately.
My music tracks from Bleep.com work just fine. As do the ones from Underworld. As do my audiobooks from Audible.
If EMI didn't insist on DRM, their shop would work too.
If they do want DRM options, I prefer to think it less a case of Apple not wanting to license their own system, and refusing to license Microsoft's. It's a feature the iPod is missing.
But then, most players out there don't bother to license the unencrypted AAC format, and Apple are quite happy to do that. Sony's PSP plays them, but their Walkman machines don't. Which is odd.
From that article:
"The premium subscription service tier uses Microsoft's Janus DRM technology"
The free version doesn't, and you can't play them on those minority brands of iPodalikes. But it's the free version that is the innovative aspect here; the premium service is effectively just EMI's own version of the Napster subscription, and so likely to be no more successful.
On the other hand, how many people who actually care about the Beatles have passed by the continual opportunities to buy the songs on CD?
Sure, they were a popular band, but if you want an album, you've probably got it by now. It's not like they've released anything new you need to catch up with.
Yes, it's yet another online music service whose music won't work on iPods.
In fact, since they're using their own custom DRM and relying on you seeing adverts while you listen (how many people look at the screen while listening to music, then?) it won't work with other portable players, either.
So why are you going to want this, other than for the free version to try out tracks occasionally (and possibly record them to a less encumbered format)?
I can't speak for the original poster, but the context of the game is a big thing. Rhythm-action games are generally used as party games; it's about a bunch of people together having fun, rather than trying to 'beat' a challenge like Halo. There's no big 'plot' to speak of, you're just perfoming some easy songs, then some more difficult ones as the difficulty advances.
Also, music-based games rely in no small part on the music itself. I'd be mightily pissed-off if the next SingStar game made me spend hours practicing my Ricky Martin before I could get to the Blur I bought it for, and the same goes for Guitar Hero's playlist.
Part of me is still a bit miffed I'll never get to try the Level 5 songs on Frequency, for example, because they only exist in Hard, and that's far too much for me to cope with.
You're still running at 800x600? Really? I can't remember the last time I saw a screen that couldn't do at least 1024x768. Because that's all you need to go to in order to get an improvement with a HD format. These laptops will probably be shipping with HD-resolution LCDs to match.
The story is from the Financial Times, based in the UK. Here we are indeed completing the switch to digital TV only in 2012.
Yes, but Sony are specifically trying to sell the PSP on its media capabilities - displaying pictures, playing music and video files, surfing the net. I recently bought one myself for its ability to play OutRun 2006, so I'm not knocking the ability to play games as well, but that wasn't the point of their last ad campaign.
/.) see how many people continue to criticise it for not having a radio, not having a line-in to record with, or other random, non-essential features that similar devices have as it is.
As I said before, the real reason for Convergence devices is that everything has a fairly general-purpose CPU in it these days. Video playback is so close to free with all the other features they have designed it for, that they would be mad to deliberately exclude it.
Next time there's an iPod topic (and lets face it, that won't take long round
Given the number of low-resolution xvid files flying back and forth across the internet, and the number who think 4 hour realtime recording on a single-layer DVD is just fine and dandy, I'm guessing you're right about VHS...
The Grandparent's Loewe does have an unusually good scaler in it, while the Samsung is generally thought to be one of the worst.
In your instance, I'd recommend getting a player with built-in scaling; Oppo Digital's one is generally thought to be brilliant for the price, but curiously enough the Toshiba $500 HD-DVD player is as good if not better. So if you're feeling really brave, you might consider getting one and treat the actual HD-DVD capabilities as a worthwhile risk.
That depends on how you measure quality, though. You're counting the number of lines, others count the number of pixels - the horizonal resolution goes up along with the vertical.
This is a kind of self-selection, though. Merely by affording a 90" or larger HD-capable display, you're more likely to be able to afford a HD movie format. How large do you think that market is, though? 5% of US TVs? 10%? Worldwide it's a lot lower.
You may well really need a HD movie format. Much of the DVD-buying audience have 32" or smaller TVs, where DVD's resolution is just fine, thanks. Certainly, I don't know anyone in the UK with a TV big enough to desperately need HD.
"You don't have to make blu-ray the key feature if you don't want to."
Well, you do if you're going to explain to prospective owners of your product that they'll be wanting to buy from the BluRay section of Blockbuster, and not the HD-DVD one.
Well, only Universal has EXCLUSIVELY pledged support to HD-DVD. Sony are obviously Blu-Ray exclusive and Fox are in that camp for the moment, but most of the others are fence-sitting by either planning for both, or publicly letting it be known that they'll jump if HD-DVD does well in the next 6 months or so.
There is indeed. This painfully slow memory operation is only for reading what is designed as 'local memory' for the graphics processors.
There are a few tricks you can use with reading from there, but most of the time you don't really need the main CPU to snoop in there.
You did indeed mention it, but then you went on to suggest that the PSP is a good thing, so you clearly aren't that serious.
Being less sarcastic, Apple had a device that had a colour screen (because they look nice and they wanted to display album art, and more generally photos), tonnes of storage space and a reasonable amount of processor power.
Just as with the PSP, why _not_ allow it to play videos? You don't have to use the functionality, and deliberately removing it wouldn't save enough money to bother.