PS3 price revealed? (I wonder what Gurm will say about it :p )

**Marshmallowman** · 6 April 2006, 17:38

Well it is a Blu ray player as well...but still that seems quite extreme for a console, not exactly priced as a "childs toy"

**schmosef** · 6 April 2006, 18:45

I'll tell you guys all about it. You can play it vicariously through me.

**rylan** · 6 April 2006, 19:52

Don't worry, in a couple months there will be a hack for it to allow ripping and playing of BluRay DVDs on Linux without stupid HDCP. With the processing power of the Cell, it won't be too hard for it to crack the encryption. It'll be worth the money then.

**Nowhere** · 11 April 2006, 05:27

schmo, die

PS. rylan, what processing power has to do with cracking encryption? AFAIk nobody cracked algorithms used in PGP. Not even those used in SACD...
And BTW, that's another reason why I think PS3 won't be popular here...

**rylan** · 11 April 2006, 06:12

Well I think initially it may be able to do the 'brute force' approach to crack some encryption algorithms. That is, if the released version doesn't have the Cell processor crippled some. Yeah, probably those who want to convert it to a linux box or something would just stick to the X-Box since thats easier and cheaper to deal with. I'm sure it'll be a hit with the more exotic hackers, but thats a small number of people.

**Nowhere** · 11 April 2006, 06:25

Personally I doubt the encryption will be broken...more probable is, perhaps, using Bluray player from some rogue manufacturer, who allows outputting digital stream unencoded. Or perhaps electrically/electronically tapping into player/TV board to intercept the decoded signal in digital form.
And then encoding this with H.364 or Dirac and posting on Piratebay

PS3 price revealed? (I wonder what Gurm will say about it :p )

PS3 price revealed? (I wonder what Gurm will say about it :p )

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