<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Jan 15, 2007, at 4:48 AM, Neil Bird wrote:<br><br>> Around about 12/01/07 21:00, Brian Wood typed ...<br>>> I don't think the manufacturers are going to sit still for another<br>>> round of "format wars". Just like the DVD-R/DVD+R battle, it will be
<br>>> solved by drives that can simply do both.<br>><br>> Like this one?<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/07/lg_unveils_multi-blue/">http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/07/lg_unveils_multi-blue/
</a><br><br>Hadn't seen that one, but it doesn't surprise me, it was inevitable.<br>Of course they will eventually "support some of the HD DVD format's<br>online interactivity features".<br><br>I'm trying to dig up the article that said such a device was
<br>"impossible", I laughed when I read it at the time as I knew it would<br>happen.<br><br>Now we just wait for the price to come down. I remember paying around<br>$1000 for my first CD recorder, and that was a 1X device for which
<br>the blanks were around $5/each (and that was in 1989 dollars) :-)<br>(SCSI of course).</blockquote><div><br>I saw this article and immediately thought of this discussion. According to <a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/01/31/154224.shtml">
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/01/31/154224.shtml</a> the upcoming Linux 2.6.20 kernel will have PS3 support built in, and this paragraph caught my eye: <br><br>"The Sony Playstation 3 support in the 2.6.20 kernel is coming because of Sony engineers contributing the patches, which add machine-specific support for various items."
<br></div><br></div>I like the fact that Sony is putting effort into making this more Linux-friendly and not treating it as just some gimmick to get their name in the news. If we could get Myth on the PS3 to the level of XBMC on the original Xbox, but with Blu-Ray and 1080p support, that would be the PS3's killer app in my mind.
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