{"id":21,"date":"2006-03-23T22:43:39","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T22:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=21"},"modified":"2009-08-03T22:08:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T22:08:33","slug":"the-playstation-3-the-future-of-the-living-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"The Playstation 3 &#8211; The future of the living room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having read <a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/03\/22\/208221&#038;from=rss\">Slashdot&#8217;s article on Sony&#8217;s PS3 Announcement at the Games Developer Conference 2006<\/a> it looks like Sony&#8217;s next generation console could well become my next new PC.  <\/p>\n<p>Given that I would need to upgrade my computer to run Windows XP let alone Windows Vista I can&#8217;t see any problem with keeping my old PC to run legacy applications: &#8211; Diablo II, Freespace, Independence War.  Perhaps someone will write an emulator fast enough so that I can carry on playing it in on the PS3.  60 GB of space is more than ample to store my photo collection and if it works as a network server as well as is hinted than it can join my PS2 doing archive duties.  All I need now is a facility to play Atrac3&#8217;s on it and I&#8217;ll be sorted.<\/p>\n<p>With 3 ethernet ports and wireless ethernet it could well be the network hub and make a steal on Microsoft given that these facilities aren&#8217;t standard on an Xbox 360.<\/p>\n<p>Just have to wait and see what comes out and at what cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having read Slashdot&#8217;s article on Sony&#8217;s PS3 Announcement at the Games Developer Conference 2006 it looks like Sony&#8217;s next generation console could well become my next new PC. Given that I would need to upgrade my computer to run Windows XP let alone Windows Vista I can&#8217;t see any problem with keeping my old PC &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=21\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Playstation 3 &#8211; The future of the living room<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-life","tag-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AfOo-l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ccgi.thunderbird.force9.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}