So you've dropped $600 on a PS3 (or a few thousand dollars to pick one up on eBay), only to realize that you hate video games. Well, as it turns out you've not only picked up a Blu-Ray player for your living room, but you can also install Linux on it.
And once you can install Linux, you can do all sorts of things, like say, ripping Blu-Ray Movies. The folks over at the PS3News forums have managed to dump the data from a Blu-Ray copy of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. It takes up 20.9GB of space on the hard drive, so you'll need to get a 60GB PS3 or an external hard drive if you want to rip movies. And once you do it's up to you to figure out how to burn a copy. Or if you want a media center that can only hold a few movies at a time, then I guess you're all set.
Of course, if you've gone through all the trouble of installing Linux on your PS3 and ripping a hi-def movie, it probably wouldn't be that hard to compress it to DivX or XviD.
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1. I guess this means the movie studios will begin to implement the ICT token that will downgrade the component video to a standard def picture (like from the Xbox 360).
Posted at 10:19AM on Dec 1st 2006 by Wellinformed