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I just loaded up my PS3 with a 160GB SATA drive. Found the drive on eBay for $75 bucks. Here that Microshaft??? $75 bucks for a 160GB drive. Not $180 for a 120GB drive.

Anyways...It would be cool to record your shows on the PS3's drive and then download them to the PSP. They should have redesigned that PSP and put in a fat hard drive.]]>Oct 11th 2007 8:57AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/
I guess being able to record shows on your ps3 is nice since that's really all it has to offer right now.. oh, you can paly blu-ray movies too...YEEEE]]>Oct 11th 2007 10:01AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/
And yet, where are the games??

Stay on JOYSTIQ Frankie, it suits you. This is not your bag.]]>Oct 11th 2007 3:11PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/Oct 11th 2007 9:29AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/
Then they could have separately sold a true game machine as the PS3 and, like, had games for it. And cheaper without blu-ray.]]>Oct 11th 2007 11:19AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/
But I would agree that Sony has a mixed selling market for it's unit. It is sickening how powerful this is... if only we could get rid of the hypervisor... HTPC would be dead to me. ]]>Oct 11th 2007 12:17PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/]]>Oct 11th 2007 11:35AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/Oct 11th 2007 11:44AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/Oct 11th 2007 12:28PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/
If you want to take PS3 data to a friends house or another computer I'd suggest a usb 2.0 drive.

It was super cheap to set up an old 7200 rpm drive in an external box and it's a lot faster to transfer my music and movies than over a network,makes the xmb faster too. Added bonus is that all of the data is viewable on my redhat Linux install also. You can not download games to the harddrive, that is a bummer.

If you are only taking game data and a movie use a thumb drive or a camera flash card.

The PS3 still needs quite a bit of work, like play lists but, it's great. I wish this dvr feature could come to the US. ]]>Oct 11th 2007 1:08PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/Oct 11th 2007 2:14PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/Oct 11th 2007 4:45PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/
IPTV? In the US it's a MINOR Marketplace. Like only 1 million people even use this service in the US. Most people's Broadband is just not fast enough. So again, Sony is looking at where they can make the most Money, Blu-Ray Movies, and getting into TV. Gaming Market is a lot smaller. I can understand why so many people are just buying the PS2.
]]>Oct 12th 2007 4:34AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/Ingenious plan, call it a games console with a sony badge and sell truck loads of BR players by sucker punching the public into buying a games console, beautiful. So what if they disenfranchise a few million suckers around the world, when the BR market is sewn up they might get around to making some games as well, maybe.
In the mean time, they still have a huge presence in the games console market with their other products and the world is their oyster,simple.
Only problem is, they priced it out of the market and said, people will still buy it anyway because it's a sony, but XBOX 360 is getting stronger, and damn, that feisty Wii came along and pissed on the parade, now sony are ripping up millions of dollars.
Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

Now it's plan X for sony, disguise a BR player as an extremely expensive set top box, and eventually we will rule the HD world, hell, eventually these good folks can play games on their set top boxes, and did we mention you can watch BR movies as well!!
SONY-Suckingin Ordinary Nitwit Yanks]]>Oct 12th 2007 5:30AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/10/11/sonys-playstation-3-to-double-as-iptv-set-top-box/ the reason sony released the ps3 with br was not for a game system but to force br down people throats.sony was never worried about getting games for the ps3 all they were worried about was getting br out to the consumers and they figured that if they put it in the ps3 that they will have a jump on hd-dvd and they were worried about that more then games.
sony was right about some things,first they were right when they said that people will buy the ps3 even if it didn't have any games and they were right because it helped them get br out to the consumers quicker then hd-dvd.
but the ps3 fans say that the br have a better picture then hd-dvd because they have a ps3 not because of the picture.the facts are that every movie that's on both formats is better in hd-dvd.the movie critics always recomend the hd-dvd version over the br because
1-it has a better picture
2-better sound
3-more extras
4-and it has internet activities

i'm not going to say that's one is better then the other just because i have a game system for kids that has a br in it or i can buy an add on for it.i'll admit that i play games sometimes but i'm not going to fight over witch toy is better then the other.
i'm a movie lover and i have over a 1000 dvds and i'm looking for the one that's best for movies not the system that's it in or how much information it holds.the truth is that br is perfect for holding information and some games but hd-dvd is better for movies,it has way enough space and you will never use all the spave on a br disc,and i looked at both versions at the same time on the exact same tv and hook up and hd-dvd does have the better picture and if people need to stop being bias and say the truth instead of sayng br is better because they have a ps3.
the reason that hd-dvd stand alone players are out selling the br players is because movie fans buy them for movies not for games.i'll admit that some people buy them because of the price but they have a lot of people out there that's like me,i'll buy the best one even if it's higher but the hd-dvd version is better for movies and even if it was higher i'll still buy it.]]>Oct 12th 2007 9:18AM