Sony's been throwing a PS3 fest here in New York and along with Gawker's video guru, Richard Blakeley, gave us a first hand look at the PS3's web browser interface. Typing URLs with the controller is somewhat clunky as you can see from the video itself, but it'll let you open up to 6 different browser windows simultaneously and then tile them so you can see them all at once. Our compatriots at Kotaku also shot some videos of the PS3's picture and movie browser, the latter which displays animated thumbnails of each clip you have stored on the PS3.
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It's cool how the controller works with the web browser, but I can only see myself using a bluetooth keyboard and mouse to use this.
What i really want is for the ps3 to be able to view youtube videos online.
That browser actually looks really sweet. Hopefully I'll be able to load Firefox on the Linux portion of the hard drive as I'll probably use that if I'll be on there for an extended amount of time. Also, hopefully they'll enable bluetooth keyboard and mouse as I really don't want to be sitting within a few feet of my HDTV, just not good for the eyes. Last of all, I want that Bravia...
I'm really wondering now what safety features are implemented in their web browser. I don't see or hear anything about parental control. Will you be able to access ANY website-like the PC? If so, that's not good. Viruses, pop-ups, child predators, porn...oh my!
It's a cool feature though, but seems a little outdated cause there's no tabbed browsing.
Umm... tabbed browsing and tile switching = same difference.
Youtube? Umm... its a WEB Browser.
Yeah Blade the PS3 OS is locked so you can't install anything on it - I'm sure it'll support many media formats so you wont have to install anything for the web browsing aspect.
As for installing programs games, get the linux yellow dog, (I'm sure a User's edition will be out in a few months) so you can install games and whatever you want.