PS3 General Discussion

Blitz187
^^^ I did know about this situation... I didnt know people were trying to capitalize on it and selling them far above the normal price... Thats just wrong...
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That's just business. It is not a good that is necessary to sustain life and no one is being forced to buy it against their will.
 
edit: Sorry I didn't realize this thread was hardware exclusive... I'm going to look for a thread for general game discussion : O!
 
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I believe this thread is that thread. You will find quite a few games have their own individual threads. If the game you are looking for does not, I would say go with this thread. As of late, this thread has primarily been hardware discussion. At least that was my impression of the thread, anything not in another specific thread and PS3 related goes here, including games.
 
Look at the date it says the FW update will be "released" on... here's a clue. April 1st. :P And we're not even up to 3.20 yet. :lol:
 
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Sony will remove OtherOS from all PS3 with Firmware 3.21 👎

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/03/28/ps3-firmware-v3-21-update/

I can't express how angry I am 🤬
This means no PSN nor new games to me for the time being.
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If it is real it will suck for people that used it. I am curious how often you are using Linux to not get the update for a while.

It would be nice if they could add something in this next update, otherwise they will hear non-stop about how Sony likes taking features away. and to be honest, it would be somewhat justified as this will be the second feature removed from the system that only does "everything."



As for that "It only does everything" line, I have found something it doesn't do. Recently I started watching Season 3 of Dexter. With a new baby we have been using Closed Captioning or subtitles a lot because either she, or her white noise we use to help her sleep, is being noisy or we are trying to be quiet. When I tried to turn subtitles on with Dexter I was met with a "This feature is not available" message. So, I went into the disc menu and it doesn't uses subtitles, it uses Closed Captioning, which is a different technology. You have to turn this on with both your player and TV.

So, I did some research and apparently this is a feature not available on the PS3 and it seems as if a lot of TV DVDs use Closed Captioning technology. I am unsure how much this will affect me, but I can imagine this being a pain for people with legitimate hearing problems.

If anyone knows more, and I might just be missing something, any help would be appreciated. But to reiterate: This is not subtitles.
 
So does anyone still fold using the Life with Playstation app? I joined team GTP a couple days ago. :dopey:

Also looking to get a bluetooth headset. Was going to get the official Playstation one but I see it's no longer selling on amazon.com anymore and I don't want to pay $70 to get it through their sellers. Any good, cheap alternatives?
 
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So does anyone still fold using the Life with Playstation app? I joined team GTP a couple days ago. :dopey:

Also looking to get a bluetooth headset. Was going to get the official Playstation one but I see it's no longer selling on amazon.com anymore and I don't want to pay $70 to get it through their sellers. Any good, cheap alternatives?
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I use the Jabra BT 120 headset that came with Warhawk. I don't even know if it is still available, but the last time I saw it you could buy it for about $20. It works great and I use it with my phone as well. I am sure anything in the similar class of headsets will do the job.
 
I have to say that I am finally impressed with the PS3 games selection available to purchase. There has been some great games in the past but they were few and far between.

I looked at the chart titles in my local Game store the other day, and I was struck by the sheer number of quality titles that were available! This is what I was expecting last year to be like. Ah well, better late than never, and with some awesome games in the works for later this year, this looks (finally) like the PS3's year! 👍
 
There are lots of Easter discounts available at the moment. :) Look for yourself to see what's exactly on sale, but you can get GT PSP for merely 18 euro at the moment. 👍
 
What is up with PSN and taking ten years to delete someone off your psn list?

I have been deleting someone for 10 minutes now and it is still going, ugh.
 
I just got the YLOD :grumpy:

Question: Has anyone here used a hairdryer to heat up and reset the flux?
and if so how long did it fix the problem for

Thanks:)
 
Yes...I just did the heat trick two days ago and it did work. I used a heat gun, The man in the youtube box says the hairdryer will not get hot enough. I picked up a heat gun for $20 at home depot.
 
Good news for poker fans High Stakes Poker got a trophy - patch. 👍

Bad news, there is an add-on #3 needed to get all trophies... and add-on #3 in Europe only adds video -chat, not the required game modes. 👎

Gotta love the confusion of how SCE/PSN handles their stuff.
Like why do I get messages from friends being offline for hours e.g. is completely beyond me. :rolleye:
 
Sounds nasty.

PSN Accounts Hacked Through Chain Message

If you see a message telling you about a code-generating website, DO NOT open it!

Some users on the PSN have had their accounts hacked and charged with several hundred dollars' worth of PSN content. What do they have in common? They have opened PlayStation Network messages with URLs leading to "code generator" websites, which claim to provide free PSN content.

Needless to say, this is a scam, and a very dangerous one. Open one of these messages and you could find your account hacked and charged a huge amount of money.

How the spammers/hackers have gained access to the accounts of the victims is uncertain.

If you believe you have opened one of these messages, act quickly.

1) Go to http://playstation.com

2) Sign in to your account

3) Click on "Edit My Account Settings"

4) Log in again

5) Remove your credit card information

6) Change your email and password

Check your email to see if you have been charged for anything you did not purchase. If this is the case, call Sony and your credit/debit card company and explain the situation.

If you have not yet opened one of these messages and receive one, do not open it. Simply press Triangle while highlighting the message, and delete it. Make a habit of deleting chain messages and messages from people whom you do not know.

Thanks to Iron Star Movement for the tip.
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Oh damn, I know people that have opened such messages :/

Thankfully, I have stopped getting chain messages about a year ago on PSN.
 
I got one from someone saying that if I forward it to 37 people Kevin Butler would give me PSN money. It was something like that. There was no link though, just a chain mail.

And I did not forward it on.
 
FoolKiller
I got one from someone saying that if I forward it to 37 people Kevin Butler would give me PSN money. It was something like that. There was no link though, just a chain mail.

And I did not forward it on.
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Yeah thus far that's the only one I've seen as well. Received that one like 3 times now I think.
 
FW 3.30 is out.
Now I can sort my useless trophies in three different useless ways.. yay! 👎

Did I mention I HATE software updates of all kinds, yet? :dunce:



BTW if you think clicking on a psn message will hack your account, you're wrong. :)
 
I'm having issues with PS3 Media Server skipping really bad when I'm streaming media from my PC to the PS3. I've tried restarting my computer, the PS3 and even hooking the PS3 up to an Ethernet cable. Any thoughts? Up until tonight it worked flawlessly and I was slightly annoyed since I want to watch a movie.
 
H20HYBRID_GT
FW 3.30 is out.
Now I can sort my useless trophies in three different useless ways.. yay! 👎
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And now the PS3 is prepared for 3D! I was waiting for that!

(I'm being sarcastic. Forced to download another update I don't give a rats arse about in order to sign into PSN = fail)
 
Ugh, damn software updates. Why cant we download them a couple of days after, so that we can use the ps3 when we want to for games and hold off the update for just a short while. Right now, I want to play my GTA episodes but nooooo, must download update. I also did the idiot thing and forgot I can do it on the computer, the ps3 wireless is terrible. A 15 mins download turns into an hour...

EDIT: Dammit. The download operation failed because it lost connection to the server at 3% after 15 minutes. They havent got the firmware on the website yet, I guess I just have to try again. I hate these updates so much :(
 
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Sharky.
I'm being sarcastic.
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Haha, you got me there for a second ;) thanks for pointing out. Saves me from replying how and why I think 3D is stupid and will fail...
Just wish they wouldn't force those updates on us, I bought an online gaming console with browser functionality and a beautiful UI. It worked really well, but (naturally) after all those updates not so much anymore.
The sorting options are a joke, now I have zero intentions to look at my trophies again, hope some update will let us turn trophies off completely (including the stupid boxes on friends list).
Just wishful thinking, I guess...
 
H20HYBRID_GT
FW 3.30 is out.
Now I can sort my useless trophies in three different useless ways.. yay! 👎

Did I mention I HATE software updates of all kinds, yet? :dunce:
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This also came with a new Terms of Service Agreement, whcih I only realized because they emailed me to tell me about.

BTW if you think clicking on a psn message will hack your account, you're wrong. :)
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I believe the one that people are concerned about has a link in it that opens your PS3's browser. I'm not too sure since I haven't actually gotten it though.

Joey D
I'm having issues with PS3 Media Server skipping really bad when I'm streaming media from my PC to the PS3. I've tried restarting my computer, the PS3 and even hooking the PS3 up to an Ethernet cable. Any thoughts? Up until tonight it worked flawlessly and I was slightly annoyed since I want to watch a movie.
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I had this issue whenever I had a server that was setup to transcode on the fly, but that was because my PC is old. Even if the file type was fine having Nero setup to transcode caused lag as it checked it as it went. I was also able to have it reduce lag by having it pre-cache all shared media whenever my PC started up, so that it was all set to go.

But as fun as sharing media via a server is, and still works great for a quick transfer or to show something in an instant to guests, most stuff like movies I just moved to an external USB HDD. I found that it was just easier to have a small HDD sitting plugged into the PS3 that could be accessed at any time.


EDIT: Was anyone else using your network? I found I always had issues whenever my wife was on MySpace or Facebook. Also, if it is wireless, make sure no one outside the network is accessing it.
 
FoolKiller
This also came with a new Terms of Service Agreement, whcih I only realized because they emailed me to tell me about.


I believe the one that people are concerned about has a link in it that opens your PS3's browser. I'm not too sure since I haven't actually gotten it though.
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No, it doesn't have a link, just the adress... so if people go there to get free (illegal) psn store codes and type in their account data in order to get the (nonexistant?) psn codes, it's not really anyone's fault.
Got such messages often already, usually from total strangers, easy to do thanks to SCE's copy and paste - update - insanity.
Bad for people who actually fell into it tho...
 
I just got mailed about new terms of service as well, anyone know what the difference is?

I did find something in there, I never read them to begin with so it might already have been there. "Currently there is no charge to create a PSN account". Not worded exactly like that but it is in there under account management.

EDIT: Just a quick little google says something about not sending links and also shows me this thread:
http://www.community.eu.playstation...0;jsessionid=7E0C0688F714243D73BB6CE2F95DA29C
 

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