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Google Finishes Home Before Sony Does with Lively
If you are a Sony PS3 owner, you have possibly been waiting for the introduction of Home for about a year now. You were waiting for it in 2007 or Early 2008 when it was suppose to first come out, and now you are waiting for it again later this year; assuming it makes that [...]
Continue reading...No Universal Private Voice Chat in PS3 2.4 Firmware
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
If you were waiting for the 2.4 Firmware update for the PS3 to cure your in-game communication woes with the “in game XMB support”, then you are probably pissed off right now. Either apply the 2.4 update bricked your PS3 as a good handful of people are reporting online or you noticed that trying to do [...]
Continue reading...Streaming Playback of 720p Media to PS3 Stutters or is Jerky
Thursday, June 26, 2008
If you are like me, you probably use your PS3 to stream media from a NAS at home or something; either from the NAS directly or via a computer using TVersity. If you have begun to dabble with streaming HD content, either 720p or 1080p, you may have noticed that the PS3’s playback of that media [...]
Continue reading...Leaked Shots of Upcoming PS3 2.4 Trophy Support
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
For those that don’t own a PS3 or don’t know about the drama, the PS3 has shipped, all the way up until this point, with no Achievement-like system, so there is not recognition for completing milestones in video games, etc. Also there has been no support for in-game cross-media-bar navigation, which completely rules out chatting [...]
Continue reading...Wal-Mart Gives $100 Gift Card for Blu-ray Player Purchase
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Jens Eckels sent in some badass news that for the week of June 8-14, Wal-Mart will be issuing $100 Gift Cards for anyone buying a Blu-ray Player. In addition to that announcement Wal-Mart is announcing super-low prices, some as low as $15, on Blu-ray titles to choose from if you decide to pickup some titles [...]
Continue reading...Haze (PS3) is Garbage
Monday, May 12, 2008
Just got done installing (1.4 GB) and playing the PS3’s Haze demo and I have this to say about it: It’s utter and complete garbage. The graphics are horrible, possibly on part with Halo 2, but even that is a crap-shoot. They more accurately remind me of how the Gears of War levels look briefly after a [...]
Continue reading...Xbox 360 + Blu-ray Rumors More Serious
Friday, May 2, 2008
Microsoft continues to deny a Xbox 360 with a Blu-ray drive to avoid letting 360s sit on shelves and collect dust while people wait… but rumor has it that a subsidary of ASUS has won the contract to build the Xbox 360’s with the Blu-ray drives in them for Microsoft, prepping for a Q3 release [...]
Continue reading...PS3 Getting In-Game XMB, VOD and More in 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Niiiice, it looks like even though 2.30 firmware for the PS3 just dropped, adding a new PSN Store interface as well as adding DTS-HD support to the PS3, work on the next set of firmware upgrades is hot underway. Sony promises not only in-game XMB but also a new video download service that will be “unlike [...]
Continue reading...PS3 2.20 Firmware Released
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Ted Regulski sends in the scoop that Firmware 2.20 is released, this is the one that includes the BD-Live support that is part of the Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0. Some of the other stuff in this release: The ability to copy PS3 Music and Photo playlists to a PSP system. We introduced the ability to create [...]
Continue reading...Upcoming Playstation 3 Firmware Adds BD LIVE
Thursday, March 20, 2008
See, this is why I’m glad my Blu-ray player is my PS3… it’s infinitely upgradable. A new update coming at the end of March adds all the BD Live support stuff now: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) today announced that system software update v.2.20, for PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3), planned for release in late March, will add [...]
Continue reading...Sony Bluetooth Audio Mini
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
I recently picked up the Sony DR-BT21G/B Bluetooth Stereo Headset. My intentions were to use it as hands free for my cell and also to listen to music from my cell. After using it with two devices (Samsung Blackjack II and Sanyo Katayna DLX) I have come to the conclusion that the limiting factor in [...]
Continue reading...Portable Video Player Comparison Matrix
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
So I was in the market recently for a portable media player that I wanted to not only use for music but primarily for playing video when I was bored at the gym or traveling on a long domestic flight. After a lot of searching I eventually found a pretty nice Wikipedia page that has [...]
Continue reading...Best Buy Recommends Blu-ray over HD-DVD
Monday, February 11, 2008
Laurence Hartje, staying on-top of the death of HD-DVD, sent in news that Best Buy has taken the official stance of recommending Blu-ray to customers over HD-DVD when asked about which HD format to support. We already covered all the major studios (except Universal) moving over to Blu-ray, and Netflix announcing Blu-ray only support (Blockbuster announced [...]
Continue reading...Netflix picks Blu-ray (See ya HD-DVD!)
Monday, February 11, 2008
Laurence Hartje just sent in news that Netflix has decided to go Blu-ray as a response to the trend of other major studios doing the same. While you can still add HD-DVD movies to your queue as of this morning, I don’t know how much longer those disks will stay in circulation. My guess is that [...]
Continue reading...PSP 3.90 Firmware Adds Skype Support
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
PSP Fanboy announced that the most recent 3.90 firmware for the PSP has finally added the rumored Skype support. This update and addition of Skype is only available for the PSP Slim (PSP-2000 series) and not the original launch PSP. They also make the note that the PSP Headset with controls is required as well. Not [...]
Continue reading...Grand Theft Auto 4 Like Gears of War
Monday, January 28, 2008
As the GTA4 marketing campaign livens up for a Q2 release of GTA4, IGN got some poop about how the shooting mechanics in GTA4 will be much more like Gears of War (with a proper cover and aiming mechanic) that gamers have come to expect from shooters (cough COD4) like Uncharted and Gears of War. That’s [...]
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