What have you figured out the PS3 can do

anto1208

Apart from the normal play games and blue ray etc , has anyone found any cool little features that others might find usefull . Or just tips in general

Ill start off if you have an external USB Harddrive you can just plug it in and hey presto 300gb playstation that you can play all your video's music etc from .

For converting your vids use PS3video9 which is free to download .

Bananna man

Good thing about it being nice and heavy is you can whack any burglars over the head with it.

abcxyz123

Bananna man wrote:

Good thing about it being nice and heavy is you can whack any burglars over the head with it.

I concur.

projectmayhem

Bananna man wrote:

Good thing about it being nice and heavy is you can whack any burglars over the head with it.

lies. it'll give you a hernia before you can whack anyone

Kevin2006

anto1208 wrote:

Apart from the normal play games and blue ray etc , has anyone found any cool little features that others might find usefull . Or just tips in general

Ill start off if you have an external USB Harddrive you can just plug it in and hey presto 300gb playstation that you can play all your video's music etc from .

For converting your vids use PS3video9 which is free to download .

when you say 'converting you videos', what do you mean?

kensutz

To make them play on the PS3, turn divxs to whatever format is supported

Stokolan

Its great for keeping the room free of dust.. attracts the stuff straight to it!

ciano14

Stokolan wrote:

Its great for keeping the room free of dust.. attracts the stuff straight to it!

yeah,whats with that?

wayne040576

It's like another heater in the room. After a few hours of play the temperature in the room rises 1 - 2 degrees (also the same for the 360). This is great in the winter but a pain when the weather is good like today.

scrapland

kensutz wrote:

To make them play on the PS3, turn divxs to whatever format is supported

You have too much time It takes an age to convert a files, your almost quicker compressing a dvd yourself.

Conor108

Now I don't own one but presumeably you can open it up and swap the 60GB with a bigger drive?

Haruspex

For video content I was originally perplexed as to why it wouldn't show any preview of the clip (sort of like viewing a thumbnail icon in XP) and just had a default icon placeholder.

However just discovered this week that when the clip is playing you can select "Create Icon" from the overlay menu. This will pause the video at any particular point, allowing you to create a 15 second preview which plays continually in the XMB when browsing Video. Thought it was a nice touch that's not immediately obvious when you're used to such visual candy being auto-created.

Mossy Monk

Conor108 wrote:

Now I don't own one but presumeably you can open it up and swap the 60GB with a bigger drive?

Yes you can. Sony have made this rather easy to do.

WarZoneBrother

Mossy Monk wrote:

Yes you can. Sony have made this rather easy to do.

hmm interesting what sorta hdd does is take and how much would a 320GB on cost..

Ciaran500

2.5" SATA and 160gb is the biggest available.

WarZoneBrother

hmm wont upgrade yet anyways maybe later in the year..

Conor108

You cant do that with the xbox 360 can you?

Creamy Goodness

probably a silly question but does upgrading the hard drive invalidate your warranty?

Villain

No it easily accessible and instructions on how to remove it are in the manual.

AceCard Jones

Apparently if you mess it up, it's on your head.
I have seen cases of:

People using wrong screw drivers

People putting in a HDD that's too fast for the console and over heats.

And Sony have charged these people for a repair, so be careful, if you don't know what you're doing, don't do it.I was thinking on picking up a 160Gb 5400rpm drive from Komplette, but to be honest right now I can't see myself using 60GB.

jhegarty

Stokolan wrote:

Its great for keeping the room free of dust.. attracts the stuff straight to it!

I hear dyson is getting worried

TheBazman

anto1208 wrote:

Apart from the normal play games and blue ray etc , has anyone found any cool little features that others might find usefull . Or just tips in general

Ill start off if you have an external USB Harddrive you can just plug it in and hey presto 300gb playstation that you can play all your video's music etc from .

For converting your vids use PS3video9 which is free to download .

I have used that to convert a few mpegs, avi, and vob files - it does take an age (admittedly i dont have a top spec pc), then i drag onto a usb key , which takes an age again and then put them onto ps3 - i must say the quality isnt great (32" lcd) and prob would be happier burning them straight onto a dvd and playing them from that - quality seems much better

AceCard Jones

So PS3Video9 converts all video formats to MP4?
That could come in handy for putting more movies on my phone.
And filling my PS3 with South Park episodes:D

anto1208

AceCard Jones wrote:

So PS3Video9 converts all video formats to MP4?
That could come in handy for putting more movies on my phone.
And filling my PS3 with South Park episodes:D

they have a few convertors psp phones ps3 etc etc , I have been busy convertin g my south parks family guy reno 911 and mighty boosh , to watch on ps3 .