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Wow..

Living in Europe has a plus point!

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It's Tomb Raider's inventory, sorry. They should at least attempt to sync with the XMB's interface a little more, design consistency and all that. As it is, it's not bad though. The PlayTV stuff really adds to the sense that Sony Europe's President (Reeves?) is competing with the U.S. and Japan, instead of working towards a common goal.

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Finaly something good for us here in Europe!

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There are reasons that Europe is getting this right now and not the USA and they are not Sony Europe's fault.

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They ripped off the FrontRow interface from Apple which is really a shame. Sony went out of their way to create a unique and innovative interface with the XBM but now decided to throw it all away and opted to clone another company's interface. But I am still jealous that Europe gets this and North America will most likely never see it unless all the cable and satellite companies come together and share a common standard that opens up the doors for 3rd parties to bring unique and innovative products into the living room ( ROTFLOL!!!!! ).

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As pointed out in the first post, if anything, front row ripped off Tomb Raider's inventory interface. My point being that I bet the devs didn't even know what front row looked like when they came up with the interface.

I still like the XMB better.

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I want, badly.

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This interface is pretty nice, although the design of the XMB is alot more intuitive.

My main problem with this interface is the same problem I have with Media Center with Windows Vista:

Recording TV shows or keeping videos in your video library usually implies that you have NEVER seen that particular video before. So, instead of listing the videos by text, they use screenshots from a random point in the video. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHAT A PARTICULAR VIDEO IS IF I HAVE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE AND HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ITS SCENES LOOK LIKE?

This is a SHITTY UI design decision. Microsoft sucks and so does Sony in this respect.

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I highly doubt that developers at Apple were playing Tomb Raider, and said, wow this interface would be great for multimedia compiling software. I can however see sony developers seeing the advantages of brining Apple's software to a tv set. I must say, this is what the AppleTv should be able to do.

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sony will take over the world

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Yeah, this looks cool. The interface is just modified from the XMB. They could add this as an option in the settings on both PS3 and PS3, it is just a matter of time, and it does look a lot like the Tomb Raider Inventory menu. I'm more impressed about the live TV on both units, that would be awesome.

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Very nice. Will close captioning still work?

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WOW this is amazing how can any of you say negative stuff about this?

And to those who think this won't make it to NA i dont see any reaosn why not,. I mean sure you probably won't be able to use it in place of your cbale providers Digital Box or Satellite receiver, but it can be connect to the receiver, the problme with North America,. Canda anyway dunno about the states, is companies like ROGERS calbe and STARCHOICE satellite Make you use their Hardware. Like my TV for example it has all the abilites to be able to receiver digital signals from a cbale line or a Satelite dish but Starchoice simply doesnt support it. Guess their afriad they'll lose money cause people with HDTV's likes mine would simple have no need to buy their Hardware and then they lose out ,. go figure,.

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mangs,

They do actually show you a 15 sec sneak peek of the clip/movie...I mean, If you haven't really seen the clip/movie, then why get pictures at random times? the 15 sec skeak peek is a great decision!

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The UI is nice, but there's really only one killer app on this thing - watching it on your PSP with remote play.

TiVo works just as well for straight DVR stuff.

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That looks amazing. I'm so jealous that EU gets this and not the US. Its our shoddy tv networks. We're not up to speed yet. Though we got Warhawk bishes! See ya online on the 30th DolphGB.

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Sorry, here i thought i was buying a game console when i bought my ps3.

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I prefer the XMB. It allows for more features to be added much more easily, it's faster to navigate, and it's just sleek.

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i think its a ps3 entertainment system.
the aim is to replace all that crap under your TV with a ps3.

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I never cared for the XMB in the first place.

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