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Channel 4 In Talks With Sony Over 4oD For PS3

Channel 4 is in talks with Sony to bring video on demand service 4oD to the PlayStation 3 and is also developing an iPad app.

A report in Broadcast magazine reveals that talks are already ongoing, suggesting that they are still in the early stages.

Although the BBC iPlayer has already been a huge hit on the PS3 Channel 4's service would be the first commercial arrival.

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"We're looking to launch on the PS3," a 'source at the broadcaster' told Broadcast.
"4oD is becoming a platform agnostic product and will be successful because of the quality of the content".

4oD content can already be found on many platform, including Virgin Media's highly-rated on demand service and YouTube – which screens full-length shows from Channel 4.

The Xbox is offering Sky Player (but not the iPlayer) and the PS3 would no doubt welcome the chance to bring another bit of value to the console.

There has also been suggestions that ITV is in talks with Sony over bringing the ITV Player to the PS3.

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Sony: Kinect & EyeToy Both 'Limited'

Sony design guru Dr Richard Marks has claimed that both Microsoft's Kinect and Sony's own EyeToy are 'limited' in comparison to PlayStation MOVE.

Marks, who created the EyeToy, is convinced that gamers - and games designers - can achieve more with a controller in their hands.
Although he admitted EyeToy was "really neat" he said it faced limits on its own that the addition of MOVE has overcome - and suggested Kinect would suffer the same problems.

"I think it depends if you believe that controller-less is necessarily better which I don't believe," he told T3.

"I created the technology for EyeToy which we made a controller-less device and it was really neat and it enabled new things but it is not the end-all, be-all in control, we entered limits with that and I think without a controller you run into limits of what you can enable".

He added: "You can do things like track the whole body, you can have dancing and exercise but a lot of the core gameplay ideas that we want to see happen and want to enable just weren't possible with only a camera. We would have done that, we look at as much as we could do with just a camera but it wasn't the right choice we felt".

PlaySation MOVE will be released in the EU on September 15, the US on September 19 and Japan on September 25.

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Uniloc Sues Sony, Activision Blizzard & Aspyr Over Copy Protection

Sony, Activision Blizzard are a handful of other publishers are being sued by Uniloc - a company that specialises in computer security and copy protection initiatives.

The qualm is based on the publishers allegedly infringing on Uniloc's patents for what is essentially digital rights management (DRM).

Ready for the legal mumbo-jumbo?

Uiloc claims that the defendants "directly and/or indirectly infringed at least one claim of the '216 patent" by "among other things, making, using, offering for sale, selling and/or importing a system, device and/or method for reducing software piracy, reducing casual copying and/or reducing the unauthorized use of software, including without limitation."

As a result this has "caused reparable and irreparable damage to Uniloc and Uniloc will continue to suffer damage for which remedies at law are inadequate unless each defendant is enjoined."

DRM has been a thorn in gamer's sides since the dawn of DRM, it's even splitting publishers and developers down the middle as to whether it does more harm than good to the industry.

Oddly BLizzard itself said that relying on DRM is 'a losing battle' in May, saying that great content was the best weapon against piracy.

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So This Is What The Original PS3 Design Was Based On

So it appears the Playstation 3’s original design wasn’t based on the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey after all. This is the Parks Building in Osaka, Japan, and it appears awesomely similar to the “God of Consoles” version of the PS3.

We’re waiting on confirmation on whether or not the building does “everything” as we expect.

All kidding aside, the similarity from this angle is a pretty cool one (funny as well).

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PlayStation MOVE Handholding Coming To US Stores On Sept 11th

Don't worry about walking into your local Best Buy or Walmart this fall and not being able to figure out how to use the PlayStation MOVE game kiosk.

According to www.destructoid.com -- Sony is hiring and training representatives for a nationwide in-store retail campaign.

Sources that wish to remain anonymous have passed along details of employment opportunities for representatives to assist in what is referred to as "the second largest product launch in PlayStations' history".

The demo program will have trainees working kiosks in retailers like Best Buy and Walmart, assisting potential customers with the usage of  MOVE, showing off features, and answering questions about the product which ships on September 19. The demos -- scheduled for peak retail traffic hours -- are said to start on September 11 and last through 2011, ending in late January.

Sony Computer Entertainment America will be dispatching specialist to provide some seven hours of Move training to candidates it hopes will already have a base knowledge of Sony's consoles, as well as its competition.

Think you've got what it takes? Keep you ear to the ground in your area -- local sales and marketing teams are hiring now, with training beginning in late August.

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Sony: Sorry For Firmware 3.41 HDD Problems, Fix Now Live

Sony’s gone and confirmed that a new version of  PlayStation 3 Firmware update 3.41 has been released, fixing a minor issue that some PS3 owners were having, related to replaced or swapped console hard drives.


While the version number of the firmware won’t change (your system will still read 3.41), the update does help out those users mentioned above.

From a post on the European PlayStation Blog:

"For those users who are replacing the PS3 hard disk drive: we are aware of the symptoms with the system software update 3.41, released on July 27, and that it will cause the update to stop in some occasions while replacing the PlayStation 3 (PS3) Hard Disk Drive (HDD) if the PS3 system is installed with version 3.41.

"If you are experiencing such symptoms when replacing the HDD of your PS3 system, we kindly ask you to use the latest data and try again. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused, and appreciate your understanding and continued support".

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The PlayStation MOVE Car Is Probably The Best Thing You'll See Today

Sony’s taking the PlayStation MOVE hatchback around Taiwan to promote their upcoming motion controller. The car comes accompanied with a slew of pretty ladies, but as attractive as they are, the vehicle’s the real highlight here. Look at it — it’s even got the glowing bulb!