Can the 360 connect to a media server? I still use XBMC to play movies via workgroup share. I'd be happy to get rid of my Xbox if my 360 could replicate XBMC's functions.

BMErdin

@DaveTyranham: Gold Jerry, Gold!!! I've been waiting for this since I got my PS3 last December.

mattblatz

@torched: I wouldn't say "any" USB hard drive, because I believe it has to be formatted to FAT32, but if you're speaking strictly size, I have my 350GB external hooked up all the time.

JustEaton

i wonder if this will add divx support to the web broswer as well. hell even if it doesn't i'm happy! this is good news. keep it up sony.

jerrt

loving my ps3 more and more every day. games are getting really good and all the extra cool stuff we get for free is awesome.

dhaberer

@chillywilly: That is what DLNA compliant servers like Twonky, Tiversity and Nerohome are supposed to be all about, and until last Thursday it was working great. Thanks to 2.00 it has turned to crap.

Canoehead

@ CHILLYWILLY: Tversity. It's pretty easy to setup and once you think about the role of a media server, it really makes sense.

But the big pain is on the fly transcoding. If the PS3 takes care of xvid along with the mpeg and avc formats it already knows, that's gold jerry.

DaveTyranham

YAHOO! ...what does divx do?

SeattleTed

Before they add this, how about they fix the stuff that Firmware 2.00 broke? Since last Thursday I can no longer strem MP2s and MPG4s to the supposedly-DLNA compliant PS3 from my home server. I went to quite a bit of effort to set everything up and now everything is innaccessible or screwed up. I'm really pissed about this - and of course the Sony customer support was of no use (they pointed me to the totally content-free www.dlna.org)- the PS3 is supposed to play the AVCs natively, but now it really only works with crappy transcoding.

Canoehead

SWEET.
This is fricking awesome.
I can't wait.

This will completely illiminate the need to re-encode most videos that people watch.

DaveTyranham

just found another reason to push me towards the ps3 once iptv and pvr functionality hit it...
[www.product-reviews.net]
with yellow dog linux [www.terrasoftsolutions.com] on your ps3 you will be able to play pc games on your ps3 over the network.

EMoShunz

This is good news. Now we just need someone to make it easy to connect to the PS3's hard drive over the network (ie. map a drive to the PS3 from your PC or Mac). If there is already a solution for this, I am not aware of it.

chillywilly

@prodigal_son: very interesting. reasonable price. in theory you could just watch it on your tv via the ps3. too bad i'm in canada, maybe one day.

EMoShunz

@EMoShunz: [anytime.sky.com] if you are a customer of Sky in the UK or Ireland, you can use their "anytime" service, which allows you to download and play any of the films they show on your pc. I am led to believe that the Divx Codec (with the right drm) will decode them..

Its 100% legal, and they have a ton of hollywood flicks. [anytime.sky.com]

prodigal_son

i wonder if apple's new bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse work with this? be easier to navigate i think then using a game station controller.

EMoShunz

and ya hate to say it you don't go to a ps3 if your specifically looking for a divx player for your living room, thats what the 80$ divx dvd players are for

phantam

HATE TO BE A BALL BUSTER

but the same exec that said its coming ot the ps3 here said that they are working with microsoft to bring it to the 360 earlier this week

phantam

shweet. now i can move the divx dvd player to the bedroom.

firesign

Google

There goes that advantage. The CEO basically confirmed it without actually saying it last week.

DomZ

@Noobs-R-Us: Where did you hear that it was limited to 80GB? This is totally false. I have a 160GB installed internally. Plus it supports ANY USB mass storage device.

torched

@huggy: all it's missing for me to jump on is pvr and iptv. not interested in ps3 gaming, i have a wii, but with all the other stuff, i'd be totally on board. if i saved like $40 a month on t.v. expenses, this thing would more than pay for itself in a year.

EMoShunz

While this is cool, how is this a "major bump" in living room support? Exactly what percentage of living rooms out there have a PS3?

MrMaestr0

@ NOOBS-R-US
question; doesn't the PS3 support external drives? I mean, wouldn't it be possible to hook up a 500Gb external usb hard drive to the PS3 and watch your divX files from there?

Now I've been looking for an excuse to get a PS3. I'm not into gaming at all, in fact I have a PS2 lying somewhere which I've never really used. But a Blu-Ray player and a DivX player with HDMI 1080p output in the ame package? Sounds great at $400!

huggy

This is great news, which means you can also stream from you home computer.... and you can always upgrade your PS3's HDD...

AGROS

@ImTheKing: that's what i mean. the movies there are not hollywood movies at all.
then there are dozens of sites like [www.themoviedownloads.com] that claim to get you a subscription to legally d/l every movie in the world. however, read the disclaimer and it says they only provide you links to get the movies, it's up to you to have the right to legally d/l them.

EMoShunz

@EMoShunz: I believe directly from DIVX themselves. Not 100% sure but I think I remember that being the case.

ImTheKing

I wish they would stop ADDING stuff to it and just drop the price another 100 or so!

ParJoe

This question was asked in the rumour post, and I'd like to bring it up again. Other that backing up your own dvd's to divx, is there anywhere you can legally d/l divx movies (real movies, not those user-made ones) for a cheap rate?

EMoShunz

Finally! I hope they put in subtitle support also with this! Good job Sony, I guess Xbox users will also soon reap the benefits of the competition going to divx...win win situation for the end consumer.

kiwy82

Now they do it after I went out and bought Divx player to hold my Divx media!

They should also change the firmware to allow for larger drives because 80GB is not enough space.

Noobs-R-Us

WOOOT now all my pron has a large screen to play on

demonwolf

Well, that's one more reason to own a PS3. Which brings the grand total of reasons to...(let's see here)...one.

Cupajo

This is one of the first things to get me interested in the PS3. This and possibly GT5 whenever it comes out.

pantsonfireliarliar

@huggy:

$319 if you saw Giz post those 20% off coupons at K-Mart yesterday.

CruJones

Wow... I've been able to play DivX on my XBox 360's for along time now; but who really WANTS to?

robinandtami

Yay for DivX, er, I mean who gives a shit.

Kaiser-Machead

I guess this is great but it still doesn't fix the buggy software, lack of games, and ridiculous price tag. If their whole reason for such a large price tag is because of blu-ray then maybe they should have supported HD DVD since you can buy an HD DVD player for 100 bucks. I don't think bringing DIVX support to the PS3 will help sony much unless they start to fix whats already wrong without adding more things to screw up in the future.

cellshadedninja

@BMErdin:

Yes. You can use it as a media center extender, but that will limit the file types you are able to play, but there are several other options you can go with. You can go with a transcoder, or you can go with something like Orb or TVersity.

robinandtami

let's just call this thing SONY Blu-ray disk player,
that can somehow also play games! (soon)

andrew_cho

@Noobs-R-Us: The PS3 has supported larger hard drives since launch, I have a 120GB in my PS3 right now and others have even larger drives, it can be swapped by the customer and the manual even had instructions on how to do it. So in other words RTFM

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