I don't think the PSP would be capable of playing back HD videos (it'd be pointless, anyway) but it'd definitely be cool to have it play DivX stuff!
What about hacked PSPs, surely there's a homebrew port of VLC or something?
It has support, but it's not official.
Also, who said you need to be "Online" to watch a DivX film? You don't, you just need to download the CODEC. That's like complaining about needing to be online to download an update for the PS3, of course you need to be online to download it, but once it's downloaded, it's capable of playing it off-line, easy peasy.
As for the non-working films, that's not quite accurate films. If I recall correctly, the support Micros...
This isn't necessarily a problem with the PS3, per se, but obviously it's not the only game to suffer framerate issues on that console that weren't present on the 360. Now, it's easy to blame the developers for all this and say they're "Lazy" or whatever, but I mean, that's a lot of games with lower framerates, what gives?
Yeah, the hardware inside a PS3 is pretty damn powerful, but it's not easy to use. It doesn't matter how powerful it is, if you can't unlock that pow...
You don't know what ray-tracing is and what I said is stated in the article anyway.
Also, learn to use the comments section, there's a "reply" button for a reason.
Give the beta a go and see for yourself.
XP may be faster on an older machine, one that was sort of built with XP in mind. You know, single-core CPU, about 1Gb of RAM, maybe internal graphics (or even a decent graphics card, like a 6800 or whatever), but in reality, no PC for the last few years has been built like this, it's all multi-core, multi-GB stuff and W7 can take advantage of that in ways XP can't.
For example, during startup, XP (And even Vista) literally loads every syst...
Remember, Microsoft is a MASSIVE software company, that patent could apply to anything, or it could even apply to nothing. Sony filed for a Patent (before the PS3 was released) that would lock a disk to a console, so you couldn't use that disk on a different one (i.e. kill the second hand market). As far as I am aware, they were granted the patent, but nothing ever came of it. Go figure.
Windows 7 will definitely not do this, it wouldn't make sense to since MS would want to capit...
That is a debatable issue, but even if it were true - does it matter? If one OS comes up with a good feature, I'm happy for other OS's to do the same. Nobody complained when IE finally got tabs because we can all agree it's a worthwhile feature, so what's the big deal if W7 borrows a few things from OSX?
Apple didn't invent the wheel, they "borrow" stuff all the time, it's a business thing and it makes sense - if it's a good idea, do it.
Probably because this is a high-resolution render (meaning it's ray-traced offline). You could probably use the model ingame, but it wouldn't look as good because it would have to be rendered the "traditional" way.
Except this isn't running on a PS3 and probably never will...
It says so in the article, this is the NEXT generation.
I think you mean IF it hits it's full potential. Remember, the power may be there, but unlocking it is the tricky part. It's hard to explain without a huge block of text, but the only way to unlock the "true" potential of the PS3 is to use a multithreadded engine where at least 6 threads are constantly being used. This is actually really really difficult, because no two threads can access the same information at the same time or bad things will happen, so how do you avoid making thr...
I got both and price was a big issue. I got the 360 first because most of my friends had one and it was cheaper at the time, then when I seen a good deal for the PS3 a few months later, I got it (£200 for a 40Gb GT5:P box, this was before E3 and even now it's not a bad price at all).
I got both because I'm a real gamer and I don't care which one is better, they both have games and features I want, so I got both.
I couldn't care less about the Wii.
I know you PS3 fans are sick of articles like this, but 360 fans get the same sh*t constantly. The most common rebuttal is usually that the PS3 is more "future-proof" or that the 360 is underpowered or something like that, but really both consoles are here for the long run.
It would be corporate suicide to even consider releasing another console in this economy, it'll be a couple of years before that happens and until then, you're stuck with both. Most developers have switch ...
I'm sure there's more to it than that. Maybe people are still pissed at the rediculous prices we had to pay when the first Rock Band was released.
Ahh but that's the thing, the CELL is pretty powerful, but the GPGPU GTX 295 will be more powerful for things like this. Of course, I have no idea if the PS3's RSX can use CUDA, I doubt it can, but if it could then it'd certainly even things up a bit.
Just so you know, MAC filtering isn't going to help you be any more secure, it just makes things more awkward for you (It's incredibly easy to spoof a MAC address, hell it's an option on most wireless equipment these days).
And another little tidbit (that I'm almost certain to get a million disagrees for, but whatever): A GTX 280 is actually more powerful than a PS3's CELL. Hell, my older 9800GTX can crunch more numbers than the PS3 can in Folding@home, but for the hell of it le...
That's why they call it a "secure" password, right?
It's true, it would take you an age to crack a WPA password (even a relatively weak one) on a modern CPU, but graphics cards are definitely an order of magnitude faster at it. Of course, even on a Quad SLI Geforce 295 setup, it might take some time to brute force anything over about 8 characters, it's certainly interesting to see the applications of GPGPU in this field (That's "General Purpose computing on a GPU" to...
That is still completely unrelated to this. This is about unfair business practices (using one business you dominate in to promote another, i.e. there's no way Mozilla, or Netscape, could possibly have distributed their own browsers with an OS as widespread as Windows.
That rumble thing was patent infringement, they are not related in any way, shape or form.
What has this got to do with Sony?
I suppose the EU has a point, look at the state of browser compatibility today, all because IE was bundled with windows. I'm just not sure what the sensible way to handle it would be - you NEED a web browser when you install an OS.
They're not happy with Microsoft because Microsoft has DivX support on the 360 (to an extent, at least) without paying them a penny.
Which is kind of...well...read the article, it states that DivX came about from the owner reverse-engineering one of Microsoft's OWN CODECS, so why on earth would they pay for official support of something that's based on their own work (even if it has been improved)?
It'd be like you making a song, someone downloading it (for free), pu...