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Title: Sony Remembers They're A Hardware Company? Post by: MahrinSkel on September 14, 2008, 10:51:16 PM Review of PlayTV (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=196481), a $100 (it's in Britain at 70 pounds, don't know when or if it will come to the US) DVR add-on for the PS3. What's intriguing is that it carries no DRM at all, you can pull the MPEG-2 format file off of it onto a PC and do whatever you want with it. Only SDTV basic-cable compatible, no slaving the cable box, but still interesting.
--Dave Title: Re: Sony Remembers They're A Hardware Company? Post by: Cyrrex on September 15, 2008, 07:11:50 AM Quote Only SDTV basic-cable compatible, no slaving the cable box, but still interesting Interesting to see them delve into that kind of tech, but because of the above.....not interesting. Title: Re: Sony Remembers They're A Hardware Company? Post by: bhodi on September 15, 2008, 07:20:05 AM If they want to remember about being a hardware company, there is only one thing they have to do:
Release the API for the framebuffer for the PS3. Linux nerds will do the rest and transform the PS3 into XBMC, or better. Title: Re: Sony Remembers They're A Hardware Company? Post by: stray on September 15, 2008, 04:20:59 PM Could it be because there's a lot of nvidia related tech there? i know that nvidia are pretty much cockblockers with the linux community. Sony, otoh, really hasn't been in general.
Title: Re: Sony Remembers They're A Hardware Company? Post by: MisterNoisy on September 15, 2008, 06:22:34 PM Could it be because there's a lot of nvidia related tech there? i know that nvidia are pretty much cockblockers with the linux community. Sony, otoh, really hasn't been in general. I think it's more about piracy paranoia, since the RSX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSX_%27Reality_Synthesizer%27) is pretty much 'old tech' at this point. Title: Re: Sony Remembers They're A Hardware Company? Post by: Trippy on September 15, 2008, 10:31:05 PM Could it be because there's a lot of nvidia related tech there? i know that nvidia are pretty much cockblockers with the linux community. Sony, otoh, really hasn't been in general. No it's Sony. On the PS3 everything runs on top of a "hypervisor" which only allows programs access to the hardware if it says they can and they have a core dedicated to enforcing said security policies. They do not want under any circumstances people doing arbitrary things with the hardware.Title: Re: Sony Remembers They're A Hardware Company? Post by: Azazel on September 15, 2008, 11:40:31 PM That makes sense though. That'd clearly be the beginnings of widespread piracy.
No, not supposed to be green text. Title: Re: Sony Remembers They're A Hardware Company? Post by: bhodi on September 16, 2008, 07:37:57 AM It's fine, the hypervisor doesn't have to go away, they just need to give direct hardware access to the display - the framebuffer - without going through their shitty and inefficient API.
Title: Re: Sony Remembers They're A Hardware Company? Post by: Trippy on September 16, 2008, 03:28:21 PM Not going to happen.
Title: Re: Sony Remembers They're A Hardware Company? Post by: Yegolev on September 17, 2008, 06:24:43 AM If they were going to give direct hardware access to something it would be to the PS2 emulator, but as far as I can tell they do not. Besides that, hypervisors are how things are done these days. You might as well yearn for the days when SoundBlaster cards roamed the silicon plains and every decent game had its own memory manager.
Title: Re: Sony Remembers They're A Hardware Company? Post by: Mrbloodworth on September 17, 2008, 10:54:23 AM I'm confused, where are the channels and TV shows coming from?
My cable? Title: Re: Sony Remembers They're A Hardware Company? Post by: Trippy on September 18, 2008, 04:41:35 AM Yes, assuming you have analog cable channels.
Title: Re: Sony Remembers They're A Hardware Company? Post by: Mrbloodworth on September 18, 2008, 08:12:54 AM So its a TVIO for the PS3 that only does SD?
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