PS3 Question: Downloading...

[jgantert]

Just wondering, when I am downloading demos/trailers from the Playstation Store, can I do anything else? Seems to be locked on the download.

Any ideas?
-John

 

[carlosg]

No

 

[hpman247]

Phil Harrision said in V 1.6 Background D/l will be available. As we are at V 1.5 now, and 2.0 should come in march, we probably are not too far away from this.

It took M$ over 6 months to implement this feature.

 

[jgantert]

Lets hope they do. Would be nice to watch a movie while I'm DL a game.

 

[BlackHitachi]

Lets hope they do. Would be nice to watch a movie while I'm DL a game.

Heck yea it would be.

 

[riffjim4069]

I almost picked up a PS3 60GB yesterday (cheapest Blu-Ray player on the market), but by the time I tossed in two games Resistance: Fall of Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, a 2nd controller, and a Blu-ray remote the total came to more than $830 with tax. Yikes!

Anyway, I can get my hands on a library of used PS2 games from a guy at work real cheap. Can I assume most of these games will run just fine on a PS3?

 

[stck4evr]

maybe, although there are problems if you like driving games and want to use a USB wheel controller with the PS3... may not work very well (at least for now)...

 

[ShinNYC]

I almost picked up a PS3 60GB yesterday (cheapest Blu-Ray player on the market), but by the time I tossed in two games Resistance: Fall of Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, a 2nd controller, and a Blu-ray remote the total came to more than $830 with tax. Yikes!

Anyway, I can get my hands on a library of used PS2 games from a guy at work real cheap. Can I assume most of these games will run just fine on a PS3?

Yes it's close to 99% backwards compatibility. You can look for each PS2 game and its status on the PS3 here: http://www.us.playstation.com/Support/CompatibleStatus