On Apr 19, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote: > > > So far the only official communication that we have is on a > Terrasoft interview > on the GDC earlier this year. > > Me personally I will only invest money on the PS3 IF the RSX gets some > form of support. Otherwise I'll just stick with the PS2 Linux and > eventually > move to XNA. > > Sorry but I don't buy into the PS3 Linux better than PS2 Linux > thing. The > distribution is more up to date, true. However the PS2 version > supports the > hardware a way lot better (not 100% but better than the PS3 case). >
I guess everyone has different priorities. I was looking for a Blu- Ray player. The cheapest one I could find was the 20GB PS3, and I got a great Linux box thrown in as well. Even with only frame-buffer type video support the machine is fast enough to push HD video to my 32" LCD via HDMI, so why would I need anything faster? I don't want to play games or do fancy video effects. I'm looking primarily to transcode MPEG2 files created by my Myth system to various other codecs, and I don't need video output from the PS3 to do that, I simply ssh into the PS3 and tell it what to do with a command line. Even at this early point it is faster at transcoding than my dual-core AMD FX60, by a significant factor. If better graphics support comes along I'll certainly be happy, but for the money I just don't see any better deals out there for what I want. Sony is subsidizing me in the hope I will buy games, which I won't, it's not often you get the better end of a deal with a multi- billion-dollar corporation. The only real potential problem to my mind is the power consumption/ heat output, but I can deal with that. The only other problem is keeping my teenage nephews away, they seem to think the machine was made to play video games or something. I have machines with accelerated video, until now what I didn't have was a cel engine to play with or a BR player :-) Brian Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
