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If they can add DVD to a console, the next logical step would be to add MP3 funcionality, so that if you enjoy the in-game music, you could just hook up your MP3 player to the USB port on the back of the console and download the MP3 tracks that you have selected to your MP3 player.
Apart from the USB port, not much extra in the way of hardware would be required, so the console wouldn't really take that much more to build costwise, but obviously a bit of R&D funds would have to be spend in a small redesign.
The only major differences would be to the software, in that tracks for games would have to be coded in the MP3 format, but this wouldn't take much effort, they could even be tacked onto the disc as extra MP3 files to the existing ones, because the CD's have enough memory to take it.
Is this what we are likely to see next?
Apart from the USB port, not much extra in the way of hardware would be required, so the console wouldn't really take that much more to build costwise, but obviously a bit of R&D funds would have to be spend in a small redesign.
The only major differences would be to the software, in that tracks for games would have to be coded in the MP3 format, but this wouldn't take much effort, they could even be tacked onto the disc as extra MP3 files to the existing ones, because the CD's have enough memory to take it.
Is this what we are likely to see next?
Often I choose my own music for such an occasion on PC... although PC games music is generally a LOT better than any console crap.
Thats just what i want in a next gen console, infact each next gen console should have a MP3 player and converter built in... an MP3 track could be exchanged on Memory card, or if the console had a built in Hard Drive then saved to that! Then you could play MP3s instead of some of the dire soundtracks on some modern games.
Thats just what i want in a next gen console, infact each next gen console should have a MP3 player and converter built in... an MP3 track could be exchanged on Memory card, or if the console had a built in Hard Drive then saved to that! Then you could play MP3s instead of some of the dire soundtracks on some modern games.
Yes, but couldn't a normal DVD player just scan the DVD-ROM game disc and send the output to a console which could then translate it?
Bit like the Wap technology then?
This is what gets me about it, you see, with the market already flooded with MP3 players, no hardware is really required in the console, just functionality software, a chip or two, and a USB port.
It struck me as odd that Sony built in a hardware DVD player on the PS2, when again, with DVD players already on the market, and a lot of them already manufactured by Sony, they could have just added a port, and if you wanted to play games that were on DVD-ROM discs you could then just use your normal DVD player, then the extra chip in the PS2 could have decoded it all.
But then, with DVD, it's not as widespread as MP3, so I suppose Sony were trying to enlarge the market for this format. But with MP3 already here and used by a large proportion of the population, I think that only a very small adjustment to the design specs of any console could enable us to just plug in a player and go.
It struck me as odd that Sony built in a hardware DVD player on the PS2, when again, with DVD players already on the market, and a lot of them already manufactured by Sony, they could have just added a port, and if you wanted to play games that were on DVD-ROM discs you could then just use your normal DVD player, then the extra chip in the PS2 could have decoded it all.
But then, with DVD, it's not as widespread as MP3, so I suppose Sony were trying to enlarge the market for this format. But with MP3 already here and used by a large proportion of the population, I think that only a very small adjustment to the design specs of any console could enable us to just plug in a player and go.
Sega are currently working on a cable to conect the DC with an MP3 player after abandoning their original idea of an MP3 VMU. Hopefully we'll see it sooner rather than never?
SonicRav
SonicRav
On gameplay (open) take a look at the PS2 browser which will be able to have MP3's on it, it will probably be stored on the hard drive, but they are also going to make a function to sticck it on the mem card seeing as there are only going to be 2 songs per mem card, it will probably be a transportation thing...
If they can add DVD to a console, the next logical step would be to add MP3 funcionality, so that if you enjoy the in-game music, you could just hook up your MP3 player to the USB port on the back of the console and download the MP3 tracks that you have selected to your MP3 player.
Apart from the USB port, not much extra in the way of hardware would be required, so the console wouldn't really take that much more to build costwise, but obviously a bit of R&D funds would have to be spend in a small redesign.
The only major differences would be to the software, in that tracks for games would have to be coded in the MP3 format, but this wouldn't take much effort, they could even be tacked onto the disc as extra MP3 files to the existing ones, because the CD's have enough memory to take it.
Is this what we are likely to see next?
Apart from the USB port, not much extra in the way of hardware would be required, so the console wouldn't really take that much more to build costwise, but obviously a bit of R&D funds would have to be spend in a small redesign.
The only major differences would be to the software, in that tracks for games would have to be coded in the MP3 format, but this wouldn't take much effort, they could even be tacked onto the disc as extra MP3 files to the existing ones, because the CD's have enough memory to take it.
Is this what we are likely to see next?