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Lrdfancypants on 13 February 2016
joeorc said:
Lrdfancypants said:

I agree.   Another thing I find interesting is the psvue.  I ignored this as well up until a couple months ago, I'm sad to say due to comments sections and game site writers being so negative on it, and wow, I love it!

i did the trial and immediately pulled my bills after it ended.  My service at the time totaled $70 a month more than 50/50 Internet and psvue combined would cost me. I pointed this out and the service offered a discount but were still going to be roughly $40 more a month.  This was with less features than psvue offered because it was minus DVR and one box, meaning one tv, after being a long time customer.  

My wife used the iPad to watch our old service and loved the psvue app more as well as the psvue interface being much snappier, intuitive and responsive.  So I took the plunge and I love it.  Works great (again large market so I might be near servers) and I love this unlimited dvr!  It's like Netflix for tv.  I will save $700 this year on the switch from what I was paying and lost nothing I watched in the process except ESPN which they announced a new deal with on psvue.  

I'd recommend anybody in a large market to check out the trial and price compare as you might be surprised.  I'm embarrassed I fell prey to the Internet hate on it.  

Roll out for nation wide is 2016 & 2017

They are adding city's as they go. And the three packaged offers are pretty good for price points adding ESPN, and all of Fox programming for mid tier pricing was a surprise to me, because they just added Disney & ESPN early this year.

Their goal was to sell bite size programming chunks like stations you want pick and choose, they will be able to do that over time , but right now the deal was set like cable companied for the most part you have to take the entire block of programming. Which does take the price & increase its base, but still less than $80.00 a month for complete package which is less than many cable providers/month for what's offered.

Oh, I did not know they added ESPN already. I must have missed the news articles on it.  I shall go check into that.  Thanks for the information.  



l <---- Do you mean this glitch Gribble?  If not, I'll keep looking.  

 

 

 

 

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joeorc on 13 February 2016
Lrdfancypants said:
joeorc said:

Roll out for nation wide is 2016 & 2017

They are adding city's as they go. And the three packaged offers are pretty good for price points adding ESPN, and all of Fox programming for mid tier pricing was a surprise to me, because they just added Disney & ESPN early this year.

Their goal was to sell bite size programming chunks like stations you want pick and choose, they will be able to do that over time , but right now the deal was set like cable companied for the most part you have to take the entire block of programming. Which does take the price & increase its base, but still less than $80.00 a month for complete package which is less than many cable providers/month for what's offered.

Oh, I did not know they added ESPN already. I must have missed the news articles on it.  I shall go check into that.  Thanks for the information.  

https://www.playstationnetwork.com/vue/plans/

 

Under the plans they have shaded & non shaded the non shaded is channels you do not have under that plan..tier 3 has all channels.. Lol

And your very welcome.

 

Blog lists what they added

 

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2015/11/05/espn-abc-and-more-disney-owned-networks-coming-to-playstation-vue/



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100% lover "nothing else matter's" after that...

ps:

Proud psOne/2/3/p owner.  I survived Aplcalyps3 and all I got was this lousy Signature.

SvennoJ on 13 February 2016

I could use a simple OS for the few programs I actually use.

Windows is pissing me off on a weekly basis, yet I'm stuck with it because, well I like Elite Dangerous. It takes forever to restart after automatic updates, and my old laptop still randomly shuts off after updating to windows 10 and back (was worse). I'm now trying to reset it to factory settings wiping everything, last resort.

However looking at the PS4 browser and the extremely limited multi tasking it would probably be worse. (How does that browser run out of memory every time I use it)



Zkuq on 13 February 2016
joeorc said:
Zkuq said:
Sure. I'd install it as a dual-boot option. Would make using PC for PC stuff more painful though, because I'd have to reboot the thing to switch between PC and PS4 stuff.

Well, maybe not, there is windows OS 10 having Android Player App. If Sony created PlayStation now as a APK for any Android Device which it pretty much already is..than you would not have to reboot.

If you are talking a full on Gamer OS for PC, than yeah I could see that, but if they did, most likely scenario would be a forked version of Android OS designed from the get go to be playstation centric.

PlayStation now, playstation Vue, remote play, PlayStation messenger App, PlayStation store access app.  And its still full Android OS so playstore etc. Like Amazon fire devices just side load google playstore like you can on Amazon fire tablets. Sony's next handheld I can see ending up this way. 

Since dual shock 3&4 support is already there for xperia and SmartTV's like Sony's own and Samsung, moving PlayStation to silicon valley's HQ was most likely spurned on by these & other developments.

That's not an OS, it's more like an emulator. I doubt it would work for PS4 as emulation seems to take quite a bit of power. What I'm saying it that it would run too slowly to be playable on a lot of computers. That said, PS4 is pretty close to modern computers in architecture so unless there's something that's vastly different in some regard, it might not be a big problem.



joeorc on 13 February 2016

That's not an OS, it's more like an emulator. I doubt it would work for PS4 as emulation seems to take quite a bit of power. What I'm saying it that it would run too slowly to be playable on a lot of computers. That said, PS4 is pretty close to modern computers in architecture so unless there's something that's vastly different in some regard, it might not be a big problem.

Well yeah, if you running in emulation mode no doubt, but you could run booting from a thumb drive single board mini Android PC and run in small screen mode. While running windowsOS. Like a liveboot

Or from a DVD ROM disc. Again Live Boot.

 

Example: remix OS

http://liliputing.com/2016/01/running-remix-os-on-a-pc.html

You could make a a exe to run inside of windows itself like any other program. But running off the thumb drive halfway between live boot & emulation but still would be faster to operate than just straight up emulation.



I AM BOLO

100% lover "nothing else matter's" after that...

ps:

Proud psOne/2/3/p owner.  I survived Aplcalyps3 and all I got was this lousy Signature.

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WolfpackN64 on 13 February 2016

That OS already exists and is called FreeBSD, which is the OS Sony modified into Orbis OS (the PS4 system software). They just don't publish any of their games on FreeBSD (let alone Orbis is closed source to boot)



joeorc on 13 February 2016
WolfpackN64 said:
That OS already exists and is called FreeBSD, which is the OS Sony modified into Orbis OS (the PS4 system software). They just don't publish any of their games on FreeBSD (let alone Orbis is closed source to boot)

Yup, Quite True, freeBSD I's open

FreeBSD is free

 

While you might expect an operating system with these features to sell for a high price, FreeBSD is available free of chargeand comes with full source code. If you would like to purchase or download a copy to try out, more information is available.

 

But what  Sony did with Orbis as you said was closed. For good reason though..lol

 

Sony have been very open source adaptive to OS's. In Adoption of them, not so much in opening up entire Eco systems.. LoL, but at least receptive in allowing some experiment to some things inside their software sometimes.



I AM BOLO

100% lover "nothing else matter's" after that...

ps:

Proud psOne/2/3/p owner.  I survived Aplcalyps3 and all I got was this lousy Signature.

theprof00 on 13 February 2016

lol nope. Windows is wayy too refined.



Conina on 13 February 2016

Are we talking about a gaming-only PlayStationOS for PCs (which would require dual-boot, if you want to use that PC for other tasks) or a full-blown all-purpose OS?

Frankly I don't see Sony able to make a "full" OS with their manpower and experience and keeping it safe and up to date. As much as I like my PS4... even after 2.3 years it is still lacking many popular PS3-features. How long would it take Sony to develop a "full" OS which can compete with Windows, OSX or Linux, which have been developed for decades (new versions weren't developed from ground zero) to reach their actual feature levels and security?



Ruler on 13 February 2016
BasilZero said:
Nope.

It would be horrible and end up worse than Linux in terms of popularity/user cap.

PS4 has more games than Linux

Chazore said:
No not really. I'm a single OS kind of guy, I'm not into dual booting and splitting up games to be locked to so many other OS's and then stores which are then locked to clients effectively starts to become triple to quadruple layers of DRM and I just can't rock with that and it creates too much of a hassle.

Besides that I'd rather a Western OS than a Japanese one at the end of the day considering the Western side has made more pushes than the East.
Also no mod support or Steam like sales with tons if not all 3rd party support gets a total nope from me as well.

Biased much? Japanese have pushed more software and OSs than entire Europe, look at their Homecomputer history and NEC.

your so called ''western'' OS are all US-American

Ka-pi96 said:
And lose access to all those Windows games? lol, no.

Dual OS



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