@DonFerrarri - Every single console ever released has been hacked, not a single one of the other manufacturer of those other consoles treat their consumer base with such utter contempt. I consider anyone that gives credit to Sony for removing features they advertised and subsequently sold said devices as having, to be completely stark raving bonkers. What sort of brain washing have you undergone that you would put consumer rights above that of a greedy corporation. I say greedy corporation as that's what they all are in the end, it's the bottom line that means the most to these companies.
I'm not saying all hackers are angels, I'm just sick of people blaming the hackers for Sony's heavy handed, ill advised "fight" they're taking to the general public rather than the glaring holes in their consoles security.
For the record removing all those features didn't stop or even slow the hackers at all, perhaps they should have spent their time making their firmware more secure and less time pulling features because they couldn't be bothered to plug the vunerabilties.
Like yourself I don't care either way, I have a PS3 but don't particular use it for anything other than Bluray films and no doubt Uncharted 3 when it's released. If they get XBMC running on it in homebrew with Bluray support I'd happily hack it and wouldn't care less about losing the gaming side in all honesty. As a 500GB media player with extensive codec support and full 1080p rendering capabilities it would be far more useful to me.
