A comparison of PS3 and 360 as media players

New PS3s and Torne (DVR) pack in Japan:
http://www.siliconera.com/2010/07/05/new-playstation-3-model-packs-320-gb-hard-drive/

Charcoal black console model CECH-2500B has a 320GB hard drive built in and costs 34,980 yen ($399).

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Sony is also preparing 160GB PlayStation 3s in black and classic white. Each one of these has a suggested retail price of 29,980 yen ($341).

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These new PlayStation 3s and a terrestrial digital recorder pack with Torne hit stores on July 29.
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The old 120Gb PS3s will be up to retailers to price.
 
Hulu: 'Playstation Plus service is only a requirement during the preview period'

AzBat said:
Hulu on PS3 requires a PSN+ account...

http://kotaku.com/5576022/

Added incentive to get PSN+ now, but one less one to get Hulu Plus.
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http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/06/hulu-playstation-plus-service-is-only-a-requirement-during-the/

With the launch of Hulu Plus there have been many rumors started and we are trying our best to remedy the situation. Specifically to your question, the Playstation Plus service is only a requirement during the preview period.

Once the preview period ends you should be able to download the Hulu Plus app but that will still require the Hulu Plus subscription.

Right now we are limiting the number of users but Hulu Plus will be launching to the public very soon so stay tuned!
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EDIT: That would allow Hulu Plus to compete fairly against Sony's own QrioCity on PS3.
 
Yeah, I seen that today. Took them a week to respond to it though? Something tells me they weren't expecting the leak or the backlash and had to regroup.

Tommy McClain
 
*Shrug* Or it may be planned that way since the beginning (I have no idea). I kept asking about QrioCity because Sony is a major supplier of videos. If they are "unfair" in distributing their videos to a third party vs their own service, there may be anti-competition issues. It's a grey area though.
 
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/34182/ps3-3d-photo-update-october

It has been revealed that the 3D Blu-ray update "available in the Fall" will actually hit consoles sometime in September. Additionally, that won't be the end of the 3D upgrades, as a further patch will arrive later to bring 3D photo compatibility to the machine.

Sony has launched two new Cyber-shot cameras that take panoramic 3D pictures, so it is imperative that the company's games console/multimedia machine is capable of displaying them. The firmware update will allow the PS3 to read .mpo filetypes and present them on a compatible 3DTV.
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I'd love to have a 3D camera on phones and pads.
 
I'm totally giddy about the idea of being able to shoot 3D pictures (and no doubt movies soon as well). On holiday, when you visit a site like Italica, pictures have a lot of trouble conveying a Colosseum like that, 3D would add so much. Really interesting development.
 
I don't think it'd work anyway given that Hulu Plus already has ads and is asking for subscription. It may not make sense to slap another PSN+ fee on top in vain.

Sony should look elsewhere to strengthen PSN+ value. Blindly tagging PSN+ to any digital content service will only confuse or cheapen the Sony service.

EDIT: I have read elsewhere that the Hulu Plus trial will last for a few months. During this period, PSN+ users who apply and get in can access the service for free.

http://www.sonyinsider.com/2010/07/06/sony-should-make-hulu-plus-free-with-playstation-plus/

Word has come forth that you will only need a Playstation Plus subscription for the Hulu Plus trial viewing period, aka beta mode. Officially, Hulu Plus is not going to launch out of beta for quite a while – in fact, it will probably be several months. So, at this point consumers are able to watch it for free. The Hulu Plus preview application is not available yet to Playstation Plus members and the Hulu Plus website indicates that the software is “Coming Soon.” for PS3.
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As usual, take your salt pills first.
 
Don't think so. iPad Hulu Plus has ads too. PS3 should be similar. ;-)

EDIT: Hmm... wait, I think iPad Hulu Plus is also a preview. If Hulu removes the ads, that would mean the PS video store and QrioCity will have to price competitively.

Sony should be careful/mindful of iPad video services. In the mean time, the free Hulu Plus trial service may draw some to subscribe to PSN+.
 
Wow! Hulu looks great.

Too bad it's only available for Americans :cry:

I really wish there was some way around that.
I managed to watch Hulu from my PC using
the Anchorfree product, Hotspot Shield.
Unfortunately it's quite slow, and there is no
setting to have my PS3 route through it.

Oninotsume
 
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tried hulu+ preview the other day on my PS3. It's like a 28mb download and creates a dedicated icon that sits in the video column.

On the highest setting video quality looks good, but a little soft imo. what's annoying is that you have to sit through 2 commercials before the show you want starts playing. This is for every show.
 
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I watched many fascinating foreign films on the 18 hour flight today. I must say it's high time to let more Americans enjoy productions from the rest of the world. I highly recommend the Japanese film, "Departures" (NOT the Departed by DiCaprio).

In many ways, they surprise me much more than Hollywood shows these days.

EDIT: It won the best foreign film Academy award, plus 10 Japanese Academy awards.

I suspect increasingly, the larger western population will be more and more curious about eastern culture and economic activities to understand why and what they are doing right/wrong.
 
patsu said:
I suspect increasingly, the larger western population will be more and more curious about eastern culture and economic activities to understand why and what they are doing right/wrong.
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I used to think that about 15-20 years ago also, when there was a huge push of foreign films in the states with quite a few very very good ones.

It remains a niche however, and interest has actually declined from where it was in the mid 90's - mid 2000's from what I can see.

Shame, as I just watched a rather fascinating French film called Micmacs.

Interest in Japanese films peaked around when Japanese horror was still novel in the US. Interest in Chinese films peaked before that. Ah well, it's difficult to get most people to want to read subtitles, and voice dubbing often loses much of the meaning imbued into quality voice acting in the natural language. Likewise, some things are just lost in translation.

Regards,
SB
 
patsu said:
I watched many fascinating foreign films on the 18 hour flight today. I must say it's high time to let more Americans enjoy productions from the rest of the world. I highly recommend the Japanese film, "Departures" (NOT the Departed by DiCaprio).
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In many ways, they surprise me much more than Hollywood shows these days.

EDIT: It won the best foreign film Academy award, plus 10 Japanese Academy awards.

I suspect increasingly, the larger western population will be more and more curious about eastern culture and economic activities to understand why and what they are doing right/wrong.[/QUOTE]

Yes, I saw this a few weeks ago. Because of the subtitles thing as well as being in Europe, I guess we're more used to getting foreign films here. It was pretty good, very, very elegant, although I didn't actually manage to watch all of it. I didn't think it was that much better than The Ramen Girl actually though, which I also didn't get to see all the way through but seems to have a similar story. They have an interesting and sad link, in that they both came out in 2008, and while the first is about ceremonial buriel, the second's charming female lead unfortunately passed away. They also have similar structures and although I'm not sure because I don't know the culture that well, they may even both be dealing with Japanese cultural taboos?

I feel we are very lucky in the Netherlands to be too small a country to have been able to afford dubbing all foreign movies and shows. We are now so used to subtitles that the only stuff we can't see in the original language are day-time cartoons aimed at children. But to give an impression on how used to this we are, if you watch a Disney/Pixar movie in the cinema after 19:00, it will be in the original language with subtitles as well.

U.S. cinema and tv is very dominant here also though - we were discussing Tarantino the other day at work and I suggested that Old Boy was probably the best 'Tarantino style' movie I've seen after Pulp Fiction and maybe even including Pulp Fiction - they are certainly a good match for each other at the very least. While Old Boy is getting a name for itself, nobody at work had ever even heard of it.

I think I'll get me the BluRay version of it so I can watch it again in high quality and good sound (particularly the original 7.1 with subtitles seems to be very good), and can lend it to my colleagues to they get to watch it.

I also watched From Paris with Love. I tend to be partial to everything that has the name Luc Besson on it somewhere, but while the sound was great and the beginning was pretty good, in the end the movie couldn't make up very well to decide what it wanted to be and it ended up being totally forgettable. I'm not even going to rate this one.

We'll likely be watching the Hangover tonight also on BluRay (apparently its longer than the original but we haven't seen either yet).

Does anyone else use fingerprints for their video rental by the way? My wife started using it last year and I added myself to her account recently. It has its advantages, in that you don't have to remember to bring your card at least, but it seems a bit of overkill.
 
Silent_Buddha said:
Interest in Japanese films peaked around when Japanese horror was still novel in the US. Interest in Chinese films peaked before that. Ah well, it's difficult to get most people to want to read subtitles, and voice dubbing often loses much of the meaning imbued into quality voice acting in the natural language. Likewise, some things are just lost in translation.
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You're assuming there is only 1 peak and that's it. :D
[size=-2]... and I'm a subtitle guy. I hate dubs.[/size]

The eastern world has risen in power and $$$ in recent years. They still have a lot of room to grow. If the trend sustains, you'll see them rising further, and drawing more talent from the rest of the world due to globalization.


Arwin said:
I think I'll get me the BluRay version of it so I can watch it again in high quality and good sound (particularly the original 7.1 with subtitles seems to be very good), and can lend it to my colleagues to they get to watch it.
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Yeap, I'm hunting or waiting for a few foreign Blu-ray releases myself.
 
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