Playstation 3

Marty_J

Watching BBC iPlayer on a Playstation 3 and a large TV could be charitably described as "not great".

Percy1983

My PC can have me on the NET in 5 seconds...

The PS3 is useless compared to a decent PC and wireless keyboard/mouse connected to the TV in terms of media.

dreamypuma

Percy1983 wrote: »

My PC can have me on the NET in 5 seconds...

The PS3 is useless compared to a decent PC and wireless keyboard/mouse connected to the TV in terms of media.

Not for anywhere near the same initial outlay.

For £299, good luck to you if you find a PC that connects to the net via WiFi, plays Bluray discs (accessing all the online features), can access BBC iPlayer / the net, play the latest games and stream music, and allow you to run Linux.

dreamypuma

Marty_J wrote: »

Watching BBC iPlayer on a Playstation 3 and a large TV could be charitably described as "not great".

Nor is it using a PC.

Percy1983

dreamypuma wrote: »

Not for anywhere near the same initial outlay.

For £299, good luck to you if you find a PC that connects to the net via WiFi, plays Bluray discs (accessing all the online features), can access BBC iPlayer / the net, play the latest games and stream music, and allow you to run Linux.

I may be able to spec that actually if I get a few used bits on ebay, I will admit that will exclude an OS, but really thats a software cost, but it would be behind slightly on games. Any PC can run Linux...

Overall yes a PC will cost more, but the extra cost does equal a better product. It is down to choice and consoles are always easier to use but limited because of that.

As an example my PC plays DVD/blu-ray/HD-DVD is a freeview PVR (could add freesat too) and plays games at 1080p, 7.1 output with no external decoder. Add to this all the usual PC advantages, internet browser, video/picture editing, instant messing + anything else you can think of. Yes my PC cost more than a PS3 + but all the TV PVR add-on plus a 7.1 decoder and the prices get closer.

There is good and and points with 360/PS3/PC its all about what fits you, but dare I say the PC is the most flexible as you add the features you want and don't pay for the ones you don't want.

bribrian

Marty_J wrote: »

Watching BBC iPlayer on a Playstation 3 and a large TV could be charitably described as "not great".

I believe some PS3's have more issues with iPlayer than others & suffer really badly with judder/stutter, it seems to play more smoothly when zooming in (L3) rather than in full screen......

paul_olivier

thinking of getting a ps3 also but keep hearing rumours of a price decrease at the end of april, i think i'll hold off buying for a few weeks.

dreamypuma

paul_olivier wrote: »

thinking of getting a ps3 also but keep hearing rumours of a price decrease at the end of april, i think i'll hold off buying for a few weeks.

We are not getting a price decrease. If anything with the current worldwide financial crisis, Sony would probably want to increase the cost in the same way Nintendo are going to for the Wii.

I doubt Sony would increase the cost, being on the back foot with sales figures, but on the same count reducing the costs anytime soon is also not going to happen. This rumour was pretty much quashed with last weeks PS2 price reduction announcement. I personally think that the PS3 is good value for money, in consideration of what it is capable of.

I'm not going to draw comparisons between the the 360 and PS3, as it's quite pointless the machines are quite different beasts.

duncan32

Seems that there are a lot of clever people on this thread, so hopefully one of you can help me out here!? I have got the TP LINK 54M Wireless Router, but I can't for the life of my work out what I have to do with it! As far as I can tell, my current situation is the virgin / ntl cable comes into the living room, and then branches off with a phone cable thing going into the telephone and a very long cable running from my living room, through the kitchen and into the conservatory where the PC lives. This cable goes into the existing NTL modem, and then from that an ethernet lead joins it up to the PC, to give me the internet on my PC. I intend keeping the old fashioned cable method to my PC, but wanted the wireless so that I can play on the playstation 3 in my living room. However, the cable that goes into the existing NTL modem is silver and sort of screw in (don't know how else to describe it), whereas I was perhaps expecting an ethernet style one. The cable that goes into the current modem certainly doesn't match with the new wireless modem I have bought! Hope I am making sense? At the moment, I feel a million miles away from wireless and fear that I have wasted my money. Hopefully someone can help, I'd be really grateful.

Thanks,

Duncan

gaming_guy

it should go something like modem -> wireless router -> PC
..................................................................... -> PS3
..................................................................... -> any other device in the network

so you would need to put the router inbetween the PC and modem