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Malachi on 27 July 2008

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HappySqurriel on 27 July 2008

I don't know whether it is possible or not to steal PS3 games but ...

A 25GB image of a signed Blu-Ray disc is not exactly the type of thing people enjoy downloading, and when you have downloaded a game you have to spend a couple hundred dollars on a Blu-Ray burner and then spend 15 (or more) for every game you burn.



kira hibiki on 27 July 2008

Give it a few more years when blu-ray becomes cheaper I think is possible.



mr.elite on 27 July 2008

So the inability to hack thing is actually another benefit of having blue ray?



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vaio on 27 July 2008
mr.elite said:
So the inability to hack thing is actually another benefit of having blue ray?

 

 Why ask a question when you ignore the answer?



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Madanial on 27 July 2008

Yeah, i want that to be true that electronic goods can't be hacked.



EdGuila on 27 July 2008

Yeah I suppose most people won't spend 2 days downloading a 25GB game. Also a huge reason why digital downloads have a long way to go before they can replace BD movies.
Make note current digital downloads are SD therefore anyone who intended to buy a BD movie won't be swayed because the reason they're thinking of going for a BD movie is to get HD. Digital downloads compete with DVD movies.



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|_emmiwinks on 27 July 2008

Hasnt been hacked yet, but there have been a few people claiming to hack it. Alot the "Hello World" videos faked. Really when it comes down to it, just install Linux on the thing and do what ever you want.



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"Why post something like this when all it will get is PS3 owners blinded to reality replying? BOTH THE PS3 AND BLUE-RAY WILL NOT LAST 3 YEARS! TECHNOLOGY CHANGED TOO FAST!"

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HappySqurriel on 27 July 2008
EdGuila said:
Yeah I suppose most people won't spend 2 days downloading a 25GB game. Also a huge reason why digital downloads have a long way to go before they can replace BD movies.
Make note current digital downloads are SD therefore anyone who intended to buy a BD movie won't be swayed because the reason they're thinking of going for a BD movie is to get HD. Digital downloads compete with DVD movies.

 

A compressed 720p/1080i movie will still be at a acceptably high image/audio quality at about 2GB/hour ... Not exactly tiny but is easily handled at 6Mb/s. At 15Mb/s you could do 1080p with very high image/audio quality; something which is (will soon be) possible from most cable companies to their customers.

mr.elite said:
So the inability to hack thing is actually another benefit of having blue ray?

 

Yes and no ...

Had the PS3 been more popular (like the PS2 was or the Wii is) hackers would have been focusing more on hacking it because there would be much more profit in it; we would probably have a mod chip and hacked firmware that allowed for unsigned images to be played off of the hard-drive by now.

There is also an unfortunate pattern that system that are easy to hack see higher hardware sales than unhackable systems; if this hackability doesn't kill software sales (as it did with the Dreamcast and PSP) it can actually be a good thing for attracting third party publishers. The fact that the Playstation and PS2 were easily hacked within months of being released didn't hurt them that much because (since they required a hardware modification) most people who owned these systems still bought games for them.



BottledSpringWater on 27 July 2008

If you even are able to put in a mod chip to play pirated games, you can be easily banned from PSN including online gaming, videos, movies, DLC etc.

Online adds a lot to the gaming experience and it would be a huge trade-off to play pirated games instead of online capabilities.



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