Mediatomb et al

I always have problems with mediatomb and mp3s. Try fuppes. I prefer it. Tversity used to be okey on windoze but every ps3 update seemed to break it.

I 2nd the need for a SMB protocol built into the PS3. The old hacked XBOXs used to do this, and they would unRAR files on the fly.

I guess installing Linux + SAMBA on the PS3 is a simple solution to all my woes. (but i cannot be arsed)

@Anonymous Coward

LOL. You really are a git AC. You will find them in your local store along with other brand quality items which are cheaper.

To answer you other questions, delivery to/from Europe should cost around £6.85.

The current exchange rate British Pound to Euro is 1=1.07218 (from xe.com)

indie bores Snow Patrol

Come on. The fist album was brilliant. 2nd not so much and 3rd... well. hmmm.

Lidl

Lidl are selling a kitchen radio for a tenner.

http://www.lidl.com.mt/mal/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20081222.p.Kitchen_radio

Not DAB but who cares.

I like Dr Pepper.

Am I the only one who likes it? Pisses me off that you can only buy it in Boots or Woolworths. Tastes like Disaronno and Coke. Which in turn tastes a bit like cherry Coke which you can also only buy in Boots or Woolworths.

Hmmmm.

Anyhow. Just goes to show that most Americans are like little whiney bitches.

Go for it.

I had trouble with wireless drivers on Linux, a machine set up as media and file sharing server. Obviously 1Mbs throughput was just not good enough.

Bought Zyxel 200Mbs homeplugs of dabs. http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quicklinx=4Q3L for under £50.

Just plug them in and switch on. Thats it. My router is downstairs and computer upstairs with absolutely no problems. I don't know why i waited so long to get them.

Any drive?

I don't own an xbox but is it not a matter of buying any ide drive and screwing the thing in? I replaced the drive in my PS3 with a cheap drive of ebay. Only took a couple of minutes.

@Dan

Yea, but come on, Wii games are rubbish. Ive played better flash games. Apart from Mario Kart. Thats actually OK.

Terrible

These phones are rubbish. I got one on contract a few weeks ago. The menu takes 1/2 second to respond to any button presses. The call quality is terrible, the battery lasts a day, 2 at the most with no use and it will drop signal connection randomly.

It freezes, requires battery removal to reset and won't keep

synced with a bluetooth headset.

O2 are no help. They will replace the phone with the same "refurbished" model, which means i will get someone elses crap. Their other suggestion is to update the software which I cannot do because i don't have a windoze pc.

I have been a fan of walkman phones for years, they usually have outstanding battery life and software is usually responsive. Ear phones are good quality and the walkman, FM radio functions are second to none.

This ball of crap however is definitely the worst phone I have owned in a long time and soured my taste for Sony Ericsson in general.

Stay away.

Pioneer officially announced plans to can its plasma production

Pioneer are not stopping plasma production. They are outsourcing the panel manufacturing to Panasonic.

Pioneer Kuros are the sweetest displays ever. Why would they stop making them? Its just a dam shame no-one (with a normal job!) can afford them.

I must say that is one dam fine coat hes wearing.

:wq

Browser acting funny

Anyone noticed the PS3 browser acting weird after this update? Clicking links does not work. You have to hold down x and open in a new window to access the page. Clicking textboxs makes the browser flash and blink. Only happened after this update.

Flying T-Bird

I watched a movie `The AbsentMinded Professor` once and he invented a flying car. He used a revolutionary substance which he invented called Flubber. I think this Flubber stuff is the way forward.

Why has no-one harnessed its power? He invented it in 1961. Robin Williams also more recently discovered it. Only Robins dances around and stuff.

The George !

I'm currently on my 4th Foreman Grill. This time with the removable plates. They are great for bacon and sausages. You can do an egg on it as well if you put the front feet into the grease tray so the cooking surface is level. Fried tomatoes and mushrooms.

I'm hungry....

A credit reference agency. Seriously!

"the Xbox 360 appeals most to those aged between 35 and 44 years old, the PS3 is more popular among people aged 44 and over"

Goes to show people under 35 don't give a shit about Experian. I think thats the true moral of the story.

sudo rm -rf /

I tried this but it did not work !!

C:\WINNT>sudo rm -rf /

'sudo' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

What gives.

:-p

HOME

Sony are obviously gearing up for HOME. Previously it may have been illegal for sponsors or branded themes in a PS3 environment. But This opens up all sorts of opportunities. Cinemas, The latest SONY branded LCDs at your apartment, arcades with playable demos etc etc. Perhaps this was required to clear up any legal aspects of what HOME will include. ?

Just a thought.

Personally I think games are buggy and slow enough at loading etc without adding unnecessary on-line code to stream ads. Its stupid.

When will it end

Surely its getting to the stage where everyone in the world has a wii and there will be no-one left to buy them!

Yawn. More GTA.

To be honest after spending 40 odd hours playing the same drive here - shoot him - run from the police missions i would not want DL content. Least not in 6 months time, and would definitely not pay for it. In 6 months time Ill still be playing Metal Gear.

Anyone else think the same?

Woman

I had the ! loading problem but the patch has fixed it.

What is really really annoying, and im not alone here is the GF. "Hollyoaks is on in 5 mins". "Turn it over". WTF. I spent a fortune on a 40"full HD TV , and a ps3 a year ago in anticipation of GTA and i cannot play it cos of fsckin hollyoaks or Jamie fsckin Oliver.

Has anyone else found a good solution to this particular problem?

Paris would let me play GTA.

Voodoo 3..

Ahh the Voodoo 3 3000 (with TV out). What a card. My rig was an AMD K6-2 400 OC'd (I had table fans trying to keep it cool), 32Mb RAM and an external modem (internal modems wouldn't work with K6-2, no MMX!).

It was entirely possible to play quake on-line with a ~36k connection and still get decent pings.

What the hell has happened to the internet this last 10 years?

lol @ darsyx

"if video games affected children we would all be running around in the dark,eating little white pills listening to repetitve electronic music"

Ive always loved that quote. I believe it was from the original creator of the Nintendo wayyy back in the 80's. Such foresight.

Paris cos she does all of the above. :)

Can't Wait.

Pre-ordered mine on PS3 weeks ago. Counting the days.

This guy likes his new TV

This fella spent over 1000 yoyos on a new TV and he liked it. Shocking.

Seriously though. The point of this review is lost on me as well.

However like steve I have a Samsung 40m87 as well. Its not their flagship model anymore but i can certainly recommend Samsung TVs.

Paris because she looks like shes also confused about which TV to buy!

LCD quality ?

@ 42" they are gunning for the living room with this TV. A big mistake would be to stick their own LCD screen on this thing. ASUS make computers not TV's. Their current offerings are budget, not well received screens. If the screen is crap it will never take off.

Stick to a good brand screen and a hidden shuttle, xbox, ps3 etc.

Compared to Samsung, Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer, et al ASUS cannot cut the mustard.

In my opinion this is a gimmick. The E-Monitor is a clone of the apple mac & sony vaio computer + screen in one.

Cannot decode an mp3

This machine has a Geode LX-700 (whatever that is) from AMD running at 433MHz, with 256MB Ram and a 1GB built-in Flash drive.

I used to play quake 3 arena on a k62-400 / voodoo 3 / 256 MB over dial-up.

Seriously saying a machine of the above spec cannot decode an mp3 out of the box. 4 words. Not fit for purpose.

This machine sounds like rubbish. $200 or not. Then again the best education comes from fixing things that are broken. IMO

Joe Public UK

Be honest, will Joe Public in the UK walking into currys really know the difference. Would they spend £100s on a no name brand HD-DVD player? doubt it. IMO someone with money to spare will always go with with a sony, panasonic, pioneer, samsung known brand ( + it will match their big TVs).

People who have money to spend on such devices are not really going to do much research on a product, can they get their fav movies on that format etc.

So realistically we are talking about PS3's and 360 add ons (who actually has one of these BTW?) I have a feeling sony will win this small war but its irrelevant because media servers & on-demand services are the way forward.

Just my £0.02 worth.

@Del Merritt

Should that not be a Station Wagon ?

upgrade

Why spend time coding stupid features like this (who needs hearts and flowers wallpaper!) and not fix the memory issue with the browser, add support for divx, etc

I also thought release 2 was going to be a big kahuna release - i.e. Home.

A good idea?

I was having a smoke in the bike shed (with 1 wall removed cos otherwise its illegal), and contemplating the BOFH. Then I thought that a new modern day blackadder series based on the BOFH would be bloody great.

Does anyone else think this is a good idea ?