I had that 20Gigger, it was different, all black no trim. Stood in line for that piece then sold it to CWebbster for crackers. I have an original 60GB but that 20 will always be special to me. One day it will be worth like $3000.
they bought a lot of them http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/12/09/military-purchases-2200-ps3s/ These are no simple boxes
That's exactly what I did. I had planned to wait, but Sony's decision to yank BC goaded me into picking up the last 60GB at my local Best Buy. Maybe Sony is artificially lowering stock for the huge Final Fantasy\God of War 3 extravaganza. Might be enough to earn a pretty high sales count for March. I doubt they could outsell the Wii, but it's possible. We celebrated Christmas in late February with my wife's family (too many people internationally located), and my brother-in-law had a hell of a time finding a Wii. Apparently Nintendo was choking up the supply side for some kind of massive sales push a week later.
I don't even play games and my PS3 is on every day streaming something off my external hard drive or playing a net-flixed blu-ray.
What kind of videos does it play? I download a lot of h264 stuff, but I haven't really attempted to get the PS3 to play it (we have a laptop for that). I'm considering getting some network attached storage of some sort, but I'm not sure of what the old PS3's are capable of.
Umm, I don't need a THIRD one, I just want to have both systems downstairs and upstairs... /back-on-rails Now, has anyone stumbled across any PS3's anywhere in town? Went to Fry's yesterday, no go, they had some arrived Friday, but they sold out fast... sigh
I live in Arkansas and haven't seen any in the two Best Buy or several Wal-Mart stores that are within 30 minutes of my house. So, I think it's a widespread shortage.
Depending on your internet speed a program called PS3 Media Server will stream most any media format from your PC to your TV via the PS3. When I d/l blu-ray rips they take up way more bandwith so I usually stick them on my other external harddrive that is formatted to FAT32, so it will play .m2ts files as long as they are under 4 gigs a piece. Demonoid has a large selection of such rips available if you search for "PS3 blu-ray"
Hmm, most of the rips I get in h264 are well over 4gb (sometimes over 6gb). Is fat32 a requirement, or is NTFS okay? Does it have to be m2t? Too many questions!
Well if you have a ridiculously good computer and really fast wireless connection, your machine might handle streaming the blu-ray rips ok, but mine is very average so I just get the blu ray rips off demonoid and play them directly off my PS3. You have to format a harddrive into FAT32 for the PS3 to recognize it. Kind of like a memory card, so you get the 4.0GB restriction on single file size.
That is great deal of work in order to watch a movie on your TV, hence I use a notebook PC connected to my Audio/Video Receiver via HDMI. This method takes a very minimal amount of effort.
I used to have to convert from .mkv or h264 in order to put it on my external hard drive (that's hooked up to PS3 via USB) To get over the 4GB FAT32 limit I would split my files. recently I went with the route PS3 Media Server. Works pretty well, except that sometimes it lags over wifi. It even reads and streams subtitles to PS3. I hear that over a wired setup it wont lag, so I might try this if I can set it up w/o having cat5 being visible. I want to keep it aesthetically pleasant.
The thing that I hate about Neflix and PS3 is that you have to put in a disc every time you want to watch a movie... it gets annoying. Usually just use my 360 but I wish they could just input it like Xbox has it.
I'm pretty certain that's due to contractual obligations between Netflix and Microsoft. The disc-based solution was a legal loophole that allowed Netflix to extend that service to the Wii and PS3.
