My PS3 died last night with the dreaded Yellow Light of Death (or at least it briefly flashes yellow before turning itself off). Unfortunately it won’t stay on long enough to eject the copy of GTA currently stuck in the drive. It also seems the DRM will render any effort to transfer the 250gb drive [...]
Archive of posts tagged ps3
Review: The Ballad of Gay Tony
We finally reached the limit on the PS3′s hard disk a few weeks ago. Although I had the option of reformatting the hard drive to reclaim the 10gb after Sony disabled OtherOS* it seemed a lot easier to get a newer more spacious disk. A quick trip to Amazon later and a very simple backup [...]
Sniper Fi
I actually has an opportunity to play with the Special Ops mode of CoD4:MW2 last night with a friend. Despite a terribly laggy connection we had a blast working our way through the Alpha and early Bravo missions. I suspect the AC-130 mission was the most fun although the player on the ground is mostly [...]
Ripping PS3 compatible MP4s
There are literally hundreds of scripts and tools for encoding stuff to various compressed video formats. However I was never able to find something that did exactly what I wanted and until recently just did everything from the command line with mencoder. Eventually I got tired of the copy and paste and scripted stuff up [...]
More iPlayer updates for the PS3
There is more information about the new iPlayer support for the PS3 on the BBC Internet Blog. While I don’t get a shiny iPlayer logo on my XMB (due to owning the Japanese version) I don’t really miss much as it was just a link to the iPlayer web-page. However according to the BBC blog [...]
Half-Life 2 and the Orange Box
The Orange Box certainly represents the best value for money for gaming in a long time. I think we picked it up for the PS3 for about £12 which in an era of £55 for a new release is welcome in the credit crunch. People make much of the fact the PS3 port was out-sourced [...]
On the Subject of GTA
So despite my obvious desire for the game I haven’t mentioned much about it since I got it. Some times it makes sense to comment on things with a little perspective that time can provide. Well the first thing to note is I’m a fan of the GTA series and the general concept of free [...]
Blu-Ray and CoD4
I see that Sony have “won” the battle for physical high definition media. Unfortunately since the last firmware update my Japanese PS3 has rather taken against playing Blu-ray discs. It does however play DivX files quite nicely (better than my ageing Cello DVD player). Given current trends I’m unlikely to be buying any Blu-Ray discs [...]
Going Mobile
I spent bits of yesterday getting final meter readings in and cancelling my Sky account. The rest of it was taken up with a fair amount of cursing at Call of Duty 4 as I struggled my way through act 3. Having the rest of the household point out the danger of hand grenades every [...]