PlayStation Network Expanding To Involve Other Devices 63
At CES, Sony's Kaz Hirai confirmed that the company will build out its PlayStation Network for use with other devices, such as televisions, Blu-ray players, and PCs. Quoting:
"... the expansion starts next month with the availability of the PSN video store on these other devices, and Hirai explained they are constructing a mechanism to create a single user ID across the entire network (if you have a PSN account, it's good to go on any other applicable Sony device, and if you create one on another device, it'll work on PSN). And finally, Hirai also announced the formation of a new Sony division — called Sony Network Entertainment, Inc. — to drive this expansion of the PSN service into a Sony-wide network."
Re:I don't quite understand... (Score:2, Insightful)
(but you might want to stream over your local network instead of the internet)
Pffft..... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:I don't quite understand... (Score:3, Insightful)
If they start having Blu-ray players for the HD TVs on the market with a hard drive, you could Download movies over the psn.
Be nice if you could do that on the PS3 for countries other than the US.
Re:I don't quite understand... (Score:2, Insightful)
Be still my heart. You mean, I'll be able to watch music videos on my own TV? OMG!
Didn't MTV do this almost three decades ago?
Yeah but MTV doesn't do that in this decade.
Re:Seriously? (Score:3, Insightful)
One little murder and they're Jack the Ripper.
Sony recalled CDs with the rootkit, and apologized. Sony has its flaws, but they after the initial fuck-up, they at least fixed the problem, and admitted they fucked up. They handled their fuck-up in an honorable way.
That is far better than many corporations, such as Microsoft. You own an XBox? Microsoft has fucked you more than Sony ever has. And Microsoft never admits a problem, let alone apologize for creating a problem.
So stop with the rootkit bullshit already. Start complaining about Sony's tendency to go it solo on digital formats and storage devices. (BluRay was at least created and backed by a consortium of many corporations -- so BluRay isn't one of those formats. Sony does get a cut of the profits, though.) Complain about how PSN kinda blows compared to XBox Live (though this article suggests Sony is doing something about that). Whine about how the PS3 is hard to program compared to the XBox.
But for god's sake, get it through your thick fanboi skull that Sony fixed the rootkit problem, and even apologized.
Re:Seriously? (Score:2, Insightful)
Sony recalled CDs with the rootkit, and apologized. Sony has its flaws, but they after the initial fuck-up, they at least fixed the problem, and admitted they fucked up. They handled their fuck-up in an honorable way.
Oh sure ,they recalled the CDs alright. After denying the existance of it for close to a year first despite all the evidence people showed them and hackers started actively using it. Their "Fix" for those that already had been compromised by their rootkit actually caused more security holes too. Meaning once you had it you were pretty much stuck with having to reinstall your OS to make sure it was no longer at risk.
It was, by my counts, FAR from an honorable way. But it was very Sony.
Re:Seriously? (Score:3, Insightful)
Somehow, I think that if I had placed a rootkit on Sony corporate PCs I would not have gotten away with just an apology.
Re:More openness in consoles? (Score:3, Insightful)
I've long thought that consoles could be much better (from a user standpoint) if they were more open.
No way.
I played online games since modem days (PC-to-PC), to multiplayer BBS games, to the first Warcraft (remember Kali?), Starcraft, WC3, and most recently on PS3. On all these platforms, only the online games on PS3 allow me to play with random opponents, yet still have the level of enjoyment I got when playing with my friends. That is possible mainly because the PS3 is so lock down!
I.e., with the console locked tight, I can be reasonably certain no one is cheating. This is a big problem on PC games, from auto-aim hack in FPS games, to map hacks in RTS games. It is incredibly frustration to playing against one cheater after another.
Go play on the PC if you want open gaming platform. I want a platform that I can be reasonable sure everyone is on the same footing.