To Play This BD, You Must Renew...
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Re: To Play This BD, You Must Renew...
Where I keep my PS3 is out of range of my Wi-Fi router, but since I don't play any multiplayer games on my PS3 and I don't care about BD-Live, it's not a big deal. But then something like this crops up, and I have to carry my PS3 into another room just to get the update.
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Perhaps JamesDFarrow and I are the only two on dial-up here, but I doubt it.
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Has anyone thought of tethering? Technology exists today to tether your PC to your smartphone in order to get high speed internet accessvia your phone. Just need to get Sony onboard with getting the PS3 to support that technology.
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I hadn't realized that there had to be constant updates for even the movie portion of a blu-ray to work ... I guess that means I have to stop badgering my parents to upgrade to blu because unless they are in the middle of nowhere and pretty much stuck with dialup.
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If you are willing to keep an eye on firmware updates, you could burn update CDs and give them to your parents from time to time. Just a suggestion.
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We are looking for a house to buy right now and we found this beautiful community where the the houses have smart boxes. They put your router in there with the cable modem and with ethernet connections in all of the rooms, you can be wired to all your computers and blu-ray players. It's pretty cool.
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In the future, do downloads like that at your local library, 150 GB will download in ten or fifteen minutes, while you are surfing DVDTalk.
Until earlier this year I was also a dial-up customer but luckily I had a low-cost wireless DSL move into my town. For $20 I can download at about 65 kbps - not cable internet speeds, but less than half the price of cable internet ($45 to $50 around here). It's all about saving the money to spend where I want to. Think of it as my getting a "free" BD each month.
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To do it:
Install linux, use your tethering gadget. Download file. Copy to usb drive. Boot back to the PS3 menu. Load update.
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It's DRM. My PS3, which hadn't been used since September 2008, required a firmware update for Terminator Salvation. I'm not sure if it's AACS or BD+ that's to blame, but I wasn't aware of Warner using the latter.