PS3 media Center?

[GougedEye]

I got my XBox in December and am loving it. But there are two issues around it that really bug me. I watch a lot of DivX movies, Downloaded TV shows etc. The XBox is ideally suited for being a mechanism to do this, however, Microsoft decided to screw this up (in persuit of DRM?). Specifically, (1) Only get a miserly 14 gigs of storage and cannot plug plug in an external hardrive, and (2) Won't play any usefull video format (no DivX).

There are ways around these issues, transcoders, streaming etc, but all of them leave much to be desired. So I am wondering what the PS3 can do for me here. Can I put in an external hard drive (not very important) and can it play divX (very important). If so, the PS3 becomes very attractive.

Oh and what will PS3 games cost? If they come in at the R1000 I have seen some people estimate, then Soney can kiss my ass. Right in the crack.

 

[ToxicBunny]

You can plug in an external HDD into an Xbox.. i've done so numerous times... and apparently the DivX issue is being looked at by MS...

 

[Fudzy]

Game prices should be around R500 I think.

 

[Supes]

There are ways around these issues, transcoders, streaming etc, but all of them leave much to be desired. So I am wondering what the PS3 can do for me here. Can I put in an external hard drive (not very important) and can it play divX (very important). If so, the PS3 becomes very attractive.

You can connect an external harddrive (very iffy, but ppl have hooked up 250GB+ SATA's) or you could replace the standard 2.5" with a bigger one. I'll try to find the link

But AFAIK PS3 cant play DivX files straight, gotta convert them, which you could also do for the 360 if I'm not mistaken

Or install Linux on the PS3

Or for that price but a cheap media center pc

 

[DagegeN]

http://www.xploder.net/products/146/NEW-Xploder-Media-Centre-for-Xbox-360-.htm