[Cbe-oss-dev] No otheros feature on new PS3 slim ?

[thegame4121982 at msn.com]

I hope SCE's new slim ps3s do very badly in sales. I am very happy that I 
was able to buy a ps3 when I did because if I didn't get the chance to buy a 
ps3 I would not buy one now. Even though this only affects the new slim 
ps3s,  I am still very dissapointed by this decision.  Since SCE decided to 
go this route, I feel that they really need to overhaul the xmb web browser 
as well as add support for streamming videos for other formats beides flash.

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From: "François Galea" <francois.galea at prism.uvsq.fr>
Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 3:43 AM
To: "Geoff Levand" <geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com>
Cc: <cbe-oss-dev at lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] No otheros feature on new PS3 slim ?

> Hi Geoff,
>
> Geoff Levand a écrit :
>> The feature of "Install Other OS" was removed from the new
>> "Slim" PS3 model to focus on delivering games and other
>> entertainment content. Please be assured that SCE is committed to 
>> continue
>> the support for previously sold models that have the
>> "Install Other OS" feature and that this feature will
>> not be disabled in future firmware releases.
>
> Thank you for this clarification.
>
> I would just like to express my disappointment about this choice from SCE. 
> It is really bad news for the CBE open source community, because the new 
> ps3 customers will not have access to what some oss developers have made, 
> in the idea to let the others profit from their work. I never imaginated 
> SCE would take such an arbitrary decision.
>
> Cell B.E. programming is now officially reserved to a restricted 
> community, which is not good news for the architecture in general. I guess 
> most QSx Cell blade purchasers have made early testings on ps3's. I doubt, 
> as this has now become impossible, that selling Cell blades will be as 
> easy as it was. The future will tell us.
>
> François
>
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