CES and other stuff

Let's start with some news from the CES. The PSP should be able soon to download movies that are stored on Blu-Ray movies. That means there should be a low resolution version of the movie that is in HD on the Disc. The plan is put the Blu-Ray in the PS3 und download it then somehow to a memory stick and watch it on the PSP. I'm not sure if this is really secure. Of course it is only a low resolution version of the movie, but saving it on a memory stick would make it easy to put it than on the internet unless a very high copy protection is in use and that would still cause some security problems. Well at all that could mean the end for UMD movies for people who have a PS3 and a PSP. I have both and never used the PSP to watch movies so I guess I would only play around once or twice with the feature and then forget about that it is there, but as long as the movie prize does not rise because of that it's ok for me.

In other PSP news, the device will get soon Skype. That feature sounds a lot better then movie download thing. Could come in very handy while siting at the airport and waiting for a flight. I don`t think that they could make windows messenger for the PSP, but some other text message tools would also be nice because a keyboard for the PSP is in development. Skype will only work with the Slim & Lite version of the PSP.

Now to Little Big Planet or call it Little Delay Planet? Well I really look forward to that game and to the user contend made by, of course, the users. At the moment it looks like the game will not be released before September 2008. I just hope GTA4 and MGS4 are released on time and Home before summer. At least there should be a lot of good games between now and Little Big Planet that will shorten the waiting time.

There are a lot rumours these days and not much real news. One of the rumours is that Paramount would maybe abandon HD-DVD because there would be some parts in the contract that would allow that. At least it sounds realistic because I'm sure they don't sign a contract for X years and X money without anything in the contract that they could get out of it without the risk of a lawsuit.

According to some people are unlocked Achievements again locked and points deducted from the Gamerscore due to the problems with Xbox LIVE. No comment from Microsoft so far, but that issue sounds a bit strange. More likely that this will only happen to people who visit friends and use there Gamertag on another Xbox 360 and the data is not uploaded to LIVE or not proper downloaded at there Xbox 360 at home then. At least I'm happy that I don't care about some points that I can not use for anything and play online only on the Playstation 3 or PC, both are free, run well and are part of the dark side.

That should be the last post for this week. Holiday finally over and back to work and hunting some Bugs. Besides of that I just got my Japanese GT5 Prologue version so I play that the most time during free time and it's more important then posting my precious cars. :)

By the way Bill Gates movie from his last working day at Microsoft was very entertaining.

So long