Some basic statistics and information on the PS3 in order to gain some background knowledge on the console and which will possibly provide evidence as to why people criticize it or are in love with it..
When was the PS3 released?
November 17th, 2006
What are the current PS3 prices (exc. discontinued types)?
Console with 80 GB HDD - $499.99
Console with 40 GB HDD - $399.99
What is the difference between the 40 GB SKU and other versions?
The 40 GB SKU has 2 USB ports, a 40 GB HDD, and no multimedia slots. It's backwards compatible with original PlayStation titles, but is not backwards compatible with PlayStation 2 titles.
What colors will the PS3 be available in?
Clear Black
Can the unit be displayed horizontally/vertically?
Yes, the console can be positioned vertically or horizontally just like the PlayStation®2 console.
What is the primary format of media utilized by the PS3?
Blu-ray Disc (aka. BD)
Accessories and Pricing:
Wireless Controller (SIXAXIS): $49.99
Memory Card Adaptor (for transferring game save information from PlayStation® and PlayStation®2 Memory Cards onto the HDD of PS3): $14.99
BD Remote Control: $24.99
What is the six axis motion sensing system?
The six-axis motion sensing system found in the new PLAYSTATION®3 controller employs technology that provides for seamless interactive operation, thus eliminating additional settings to TVs. With this system, users are able maneuver the controller in six different axis (pitch up and down, yaw left and right, roll left and right) as a natural extension of their bodies, all in real-time and with high-precision. (SCEA)
How do the PSP® System and PLAYSTATION®3 work together?
The PSP can act as a remote control to PLAYSTATION®3. Additionally, you can transfer content from the PSP to PLAYSTATION®3 via memory stick or USB. Ultimately, the developer community has creative license on how they would like the PSP and PLAYSTATION®3 to interact. For example, in Formula One, the developer used the PSP as a rear-view mirror.
What system is used to play online?
PLAYSTATION® Network
How much will games cost?
$59.99 US dollars
What resolutions are available on the PS3?
480i
480p
720p
1080i
1080p
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Hypothesis
My first major debate is whether or not the PS3 meets up to all the hype surrounding it. This is a very hot debate which promotes a lot of controversy as many people have very different views on it, negative and positve. I will not only concentrate on the physical and eletronic pros/cons of the console, but the sales/profits too.
Thursday, 3 April 2008
Case Study feedback #1
Perceptive analysis of Bell / Googlezon article - keep it up
floating bananas are a touch annoying though! Your choice...
floating bananas are a touch annoying though! Your choice...
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
Emily Bell Article
What is citizen journalism?
one of the main reasons for the shift in the development of technology where mobile phones are now able to take video clips of a high quality and length while able to post on blogs and share your experience with others.
citizen journalism isn't checked by editors or filtered through a strict legal team, therefore there isn't any proof of their stories being the truth or offensive to anyone (especially those the story involves).
exaggeration and bias are highlighted as strong disadvantages and so will effect the truth of the story and whether it is even remotely believable.
it is extremely hard to police blogging as so many posts are being written all the time; this could mean that The Guardian, for example, have a discriminant and offensive post written on its website which connotes a negative representation of them as a company.
What vision of the future does the "Googlezon" clip show?
It depicts the increasing power and domination the internet is having over our daily lives and the information that they scarily have on us as consumers. It shows how technology will only keep growing at a rapid rate and they will become capable of mind-boggling actions. The video also connotes that only a select few companies will survive and have complete control of cyberspace and allow us to go even further into the world of techonology and provide us with opportunities never been seen before...
one of the main reasons for the shift in the development of technology where mobile phones are now able to take video clips of a high quality and length while able to post on blogs and share your experience with others.
citizen journalism isn't checked by editors or filtered through a strict legal team, therefore there isn't any proof of their stories being the truth or offensive to anyone (especially those the story involves).
exaggeration and bias are highlighted as strong disadvantages and so will effect the truth of the story and whether it is even remotely believable.
it is extremely hard to police blogging as so many posts are being written all the time; this could mean that The Guardian, for example, have a discriminant and offensive post written on its website which connotes a negative representation of them as a company.
What vision of the future does the "Googlezon" clip show?
It depicts the increasing power and domination the internet is having over our daily lives and the information that they scarily have on us as consumers. It shows how technology will only keep growing at a rapid rate and they will become capable of mind-boggling actions. The video also connotes that only a select few companies will survive and have complete control of cyberspace and allow us to go even further into the world of techonology and provide us with opportunities never been seen before...
Thursday, 27 March 2008
Definition Questions
1. What is "endism"?
Endism is the theory that sees new technologies as replacing older ones. eg. When CD-Rom arrived, people predicted the demise of the printed book.
TV (end of) Radio and Movies.
TV News (end of) Newspapers
2. What is a "media ecosystem"?
Where organisms such as broadcast and narrowcast tv, movies, radio etc. interact with one another make up the media ecosystem.
3. What is "narrowcast TV"?
Specialist content is aimed at subscription-based audiences and distributed via digital channels so that it specialises in one specific content to appeal to a particular type of audience, eg. a channel dedicated to sport (Sky Sports 1)
4. Differences between the internet and the web...
The web and interent aren't synonomous. The web is enormous but it is only one kind of traffic that runs on the internet's tracks and signalling. Alreaidy it's being overtaken by other traffic, eg. peer-to-peer networking traffic.
5a. What is "push medium"?
A select band of producers (broadcasters) decide what content is to be created, create it and then push it down analogue or digital channels at audiences which are assumed to consist of essentially passive recipients, eg. Broadcast TV.
5b. What is "pull medium"?
Nothing comes to you, choose it and click on it to pull it down on to your computer. You are in complete control and in charge, eg. the Web.
6. Positive aspects of blogging...
New blogs are being created at a rate of about one per second. Blogging allows people to let their point of view and creativity be known to the world and share experiences or feelings with others. It allows people to make judgments about any topic and is a way in which people can take thier creativity and inject it into something worthwhile.
Endism is the theory that sees new technologies as replacing older ones. eg. When CD-Rom arrived, people predicted the demise of the printed book.
TV (end of) Radio and Movies.
TV News (end of) Newspapers
2. What is a "media ecosystem"?
Where organisms such as broadcast and narrowcast tv, movies, radio etc. interact with one another make up the media ecosystem.
3. What is "narrowcast TV"?
Specialist content is aimed at subscription-based audiences and distributed via digital channels so that it specialises in one specific content to appeal to a particular type of audience, eg. a channel dedicated to sport (Sky Sports 1)
4. Differences between the internet and the web...
The web and interent aren't synonomous. The web is enormous but it is only one kind of traffic that runs on the internet's tracks and signalling. Alreaidy it's being overtaken by other traffic, eg. peer-to-peer networking traffic.
5a. What is "push medium"?
A select band of producers (broadcasters) decide what content is to be created, create it and then push it down analogue or digital channels at audiences which are assumed to consist of essentially passive recipients, eg. Broadcast TV.
5b. What is "pull medium"?
Nothing comes to you, choose it and click on it to pull it down on to your computer. You are in complete control and in charge, eg. the Web.
6. Positive aspects of blogging...
New blogs are being created at a rate of about one per second. Blogging allows people to let their point of view and creativity be known to the world and share experiences or feelings with others. It allows people to make judgments about any topic and is a way in which people can take thier creativity and inject it into something worthwhile.
Gaming Outline
My chosen "new media technology" area of reasearch is Gaming. I aim to cover the fallowing aspects of Gaming...
- to establish the best consoles on the market today
- development in gaming technology including the recent end of HD and rise of Blu-Ray
- company differences in profits and sale figures and their different marketing techniques
- the effect it has had on peoples' lives and why
- to establish the best consoles on the market today
- development in gaming technology including the recent end of HD and rise of Blu-Ray
- company differences in profits and sale figures and their different marketing techniques
- the effect it has had on peoples' lives and why
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Thursday, 21 February 2008
Feedback #1
Well done Ben, you have an effective right approach to research - you reference webpages visited and summarise in your own words. However - you haven't completed the task - exhibition?
Go back and amend the post below.
B/2
Go back and amend the post below.
B/2
Monday, 11 February 2008
1.Production
The huge development in digital technology means that film directors now have the option of creating realism and verismilitude within the effects created using this new found knowledge. Not only does it enhance the realism in the shot, it creates a much more pleasurable experience for the consumer because of the drama and action created through digital technology such as CGI and digital manipulation. Films can now be modified in specific ways post production in order to add to the visceral pleasure and verismilitude of the shot. Digital manipulation allows directors to change parts of the shot, like the colours, lighting, etc. in order to add emotions or representations to the shot.
http://www.hero.ac.uk/uk/business/archives/2006/the_re_invention_of_cinema.cfm
I found the above article particularly interesting because it talks of the digital revolution that is occuring in the present and the sheer development and change that has occured in the film industry; not only in recent times but in the future. Digital technology has meant that cost of production is a lot cheaper from sometimes being millions to produce, to hundreds of thousands.
2. Distribution
How us today gain access to films because of the rise in digital technology, has caused huge impacts on cinema's and their revenue. Cinema profits have seriously decreased in recent years because of the number of ways in which people can obtain films, whether it be downloading illegally off the internet or purchasing pirate copies of films. Although the film quality isn't as good as the legal DVD or cinema-quality; its cheap and easy to get. This creates a kind of cycle..
consumers not being able to afford the high prices..
consumers getting pirate copies and downloads..
a decrease in profit for cinemas..
forcing cinemas to increase prices..
back to consumers not being able to afford tickets..
and so on..
I personally don't believe there is any way of this cycle ending because of the amount of methods becoming available to consumers to get so i believe its likely to spiral further and further until the amount of cinema's around begin to decrease even more than they already are. Personally, like many, I am sometimes tempted to wait until its out on DVD to buy the film because its usually cheaper to buy a DVD which you can watch multiple times than go to the cinema and pay more, to watch it once.
The huge development in digital technology means that film directors now have the option of creating realism and verismilitude within the effects created using this new found knowledge. Not only does it enhance the realism in the shot, it creates a much more pleasurable experience for the consumer because of the drama and action created through digital technology such as CGI and digital manipulation. Films can now be modified in specific ways post production in order to add to the visceral pleasure and verismilitude of the shot. Digital manipulation allows directors to change parts of the shot, like the colours, lighting, etc. in order to add emotions or representations to the shot.
http://www.hero.ac.uk/uk/business/archives/2006/the_re_invention_of_cinema.cfm
I found the above article particularly interesting because it talks of the digital revolution that is occuring in the present and the sheer development and change that has occured in the film industry; not only in recent times but in the future. Digital technology has meant that cost of production is a lot cheaper from sometimes being millions to produce, to hundreds of thousands.
2. Distribution
How us today gain access to films because of the rise in digital technology, has caused huge impacts on cinema's and their revenue. Cinema profits have seriously decreased in recent years because of the number of ways in which people can obtain films, whether it be downloading illegally off the internet or purchasing pirate copies of films. Although the film quality isn't as good as the legal DVD or cinema-quality; its cheap and easy to get. This creates a kind of cycle..
consumers not being able to afford the high prices..
consumers getting pirate copies and downloads..
a decrease in profit for cinemas..
forcing cinemas to increase prices..
back to consumers not being able to afford tickets..
and so on..
I personally don't believe there is any way of this cycle ending because of the amount of methods becoming available to consumers to get so i believe its likely to spiral further and further until the amount of cinema's around begin to decrease even more than they already are. Personally, like many, I am sometimes tempted to wait until its out on DVD to buy the film because its usually cheaper to buy a DVD which you can watch multiple times than go to the cinema and pay more, to watch it once.
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