The menus are fine IMO. It's just the lame ass lack of support for video codecs like MKV. If someone could program native MKV support into the PS3 i'd be a happy camper
The "better solution" i was talking about was refering to emulators + movie player. There are tons of media players that plays more video files than a PS3 does. Xtreamer, Dvico Tvix, NMT, and countless others. If you want movies + emulators, there are some small desktops like the Acer Aspire Revo, that is powerfull enough to play any movies through XBMC and any emulators. Of course i understand it's one less box under the tv or the rack, but having anothet box is the better solution, just not the most convenient. The best way to watch movies is to have a home theater, but not everybody has it. Will the movies suck without it? No. Will it sound better with it? Hell yes. One thing doesn't cancel the other. The whole point i was trying to make, thus the comment "not impressed", is that no one is doing anything new. With the Xbox, lots of new stuff appeared like new guis and the xbox media center (that became xbmc with version to pc). PS2 had the ulaunchelf. With PS3, people are doing emulators, fancy hdd games loader screens and so on. I was more impressed with the number of devices that made possible to jailbreak, than what happened next.
It's only been a couple of months. All the things you're talking about took a year or more on other platforms. And again: nothing else out there plays PS3 games. That's the main appeal. To suggest that a different box that doesn't have that functionality is a superior choice is to miss the point in spectacular fashion. Nobody in their right mind would buy a PS3 to play a SNES emulator.
Again you missed my point. I never mentioned PS3 games as the feature people were looking forward. I only said that the stuff being developed already have been around on the pc. Having a PS3 that "does everything" would save a space under the tv. That's obvious. The problem is that it still "doesn't" do like the PC. And who knows if it will someday? Any new feature added by the jailbreak were: - Install games / run from internal or external hdd This was a dev. feature, the jailbreak process already adds this. Only development after it is to improve the interface and maybe some compatibility issues. Seems like HDLoader+ to me, but while HDLoader was a big feature on the PS2, most people will lack the online on the PS3. Even if it works for some games / all games in the future, the risk of ban is possible. - Install emulators / run emulators (Snes, PCE, FinalBurn,...) Ports of emulators from Windows/Linux/Mac. Nothing new here, apart from being able to play some advance emulators like DC with not much configuration. If someone is really that interessed on PS3 games, they'll only jailbreak to help piracy or just save their games on the hdd. But will miss PSN online. Everyone else will go for the homebrew stuff. These were the people i was talking about when i said there was a better solution. For those that want a great media player and being able to play emulators, a small desktop is a better way. If they just want a powerful media player, go for stuff like Xtreamer, Tvix or NMT's. For those who want to mess with the PS3 and just hack it, go for it then. All i said is that i wasn't impressed after the whole "OMFG PS3 HACKED". It's just my opinion, being it right or wrong. I never said it was stupid or lame, nor i discouraged anyone of looking forward for new stuff. Anyway, i never knew i would have to explain myself over and over again.
I think you'll see more stuff going on in the homebrew scene once psl1ght gets a little more robust. At the end of October Network support was apparently added. Most people don't want to host apps built using the official PS3 SDK
Seems like there's a hack for newer firmware versions: http://psjailbreak.com/news. I still don't know if i should jailbreak my ps3 or not since i'm not really interested in piracy...
Well... all it does it open up other OS in 3.21, which is only disabled with a flag at the present time. You have to be on 3.15 or earlier for it to work, apparently.
They differ in size of programmable memory, some can reprogram bootloader with additional hardware some not, some can take any hex etc, some only hex specific to their chipset and frequency and still some that take only official updates from their manufacture. Some work with other usb devices plugged in some not, some work even whilst plugged into a usb hub some not.... etc etc the list of differences go on and on.. Be safe and get a x3max or PSgo that have 128 of programmable memory and both are open and will take compiled hex for any board. Myself i'd go with the x3max cause if you read about the psgo's micro sd shit it just makes no sense... seems like it's only used to default to a compiled hex payload over their closed payload.
