Lack of demos is another thing that pisses me off about PSN. I guess it's cos Sony charge the developers bandwidth fees, so that puts them off, but there are almost certainly games on PSN that I'd love, that I haven't bought because there's no demo and I'm not willing to pay for them without trying them first. It also works the other way - I've bought a couple of games on PSN that turned out to be shit, just cos they were cheap and I liked the sound of them, but had I played a demo first I wouldn't have bought them.
I was interested in Fat Princess until it turned out to be £12 and had no demo, so no sale there (good job really, as it seems nobody plays as a team cos hardly anyone has a mic, and the game has been plagued with connection issues). Smash Cars was another game I liked the look of, but that's also £12 and has no demo, so I won't be buying it.
Lastfm. streams radio like audio
and its available also on the ps3! using the browser.
same for twitter youtube and FULL Facebook and we even had hulu til they blocked the ps3 browser.
playtv its only available in europe because american crappy network.
DVB its being pushed that now even cellphones have a digital TV.
VidZone is super low-def, has pop up ads that appear during the vids, and forced ads you have to sit through in between them. 16:9 videos don't play in full screen either, and at times the app takes forever to load. It's odd that I've seen a lot of PS3 owners say "I would never settle for DVD again now that I can play Blu-Rays", yet they seemed over the moon about a service that offers lower quality videos than YouTube.
Last.fm, Twitter and Facebook will be integrated into the 360's dashboard, so you'll be able to do things like stream Last.fm to everyone in a party, or post a screenshot from a game straight to your Facebook page from within games, as long as they support that feature, which I'm sure many will. There'll be no need to drop what you're doing and open a browser that's inferior to any PC browser just to do those things.
PlayTV turns your PS3 into an SD-only DVR that can only record Freeview channels. I have cable TV, so it's useless for me, and is an inferior solution to just about any stand-alone DVR that you can buy. My cable set top box has 3 tuners, can record any channel I like, and supports HD.
