And lo On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:04:11 +0100, Neeum Zawan <m.n### [at] ieeeorg>  
did spake thusly:

> On 06/03/10 01:20, Phil Cook v2 wrote:
>> And lo On Mon, 31 May 2010 00:12:15 +0100, Neeum Zawan
>> <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> did spake thusly:
>>
>>>     I got the PS3 because it had 3 things:
>>>
>>> 1. Ability to play Blu-Ray.
>>>
>>> 2. Ability to stream videos from the computer.
>>>
>>> 3. Ability to stream from NetFlix.
>>>
>>> I originally had thought of getting 3 separate devices. A friend
>>> convinced me to buy a PS3 instead. I wish I hadn't listened to him.
>>
>> OOC why?
>
> 	When you want to fast forward, you get a choice of 1.5x. The next
> bigger option is 10x. That's retarded. Even worse, when you want to seek
> backwards, the first choice is 10x.

At least it does actually fast-forward/rewind rather than turn the film  
into a slide-show as my Sony BDP-363 (and the latest more expensive model)  
does; I also like the way the 1.5x keeps the sound.

> 	Technically, you can go into a menu and pick stuff like 4x, but you're
> not really going to want to go navigate menus just to get that.
>
> 	Can't remember more things now, but there were a whole bunch of related
> usability issues for watching videos, that any decent player can take
> care of. Fact is that the PS3 just wasn't meant for this.
>
<snip>
> - you
> can't do that with the PS3 media server.

That's fair enough if you're doing that, for most though I suspect it'll  
just work.

-- 
Phil Cook

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