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I have an old Playstation 3 laying around with a broken disc reader.

As I also have a working PS3 in my living room, this one is gathering dust.

 

Any ideas what to do with it? Fun projects?

 

Was thinking about maybe turning it into some sort of media streaming device or something like that.

But have no idea what the best approach would be.

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You can run Li— no wait.. they killed that.

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18 minutes ago, xenic said:

I have an old Playstation 3 laying around with a broken disc reader.

 

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Try to repair the broken one with a replacement bluray drive.

As for the other one, you can of course use it as a bluray player. The PS3 also has some really good exclusives you can get used for cheap if you haven't played them yet. Uncharted, God of War, The Last of Us, Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls come to mind.

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nand/nor flash, install cfw

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PS3 is still one of the best media centres available imo.

It plays blu-ray/dvd, you can stream media to it or save it locally on the HDD, it supports pretty much any universal bluetooth remote, it has some neat software for photos and the music visualiser is nice, and the best thing of all: the XMB interface is f'ing gorgeous!

 

The only major drawback I can think of is that it can't do passthrough for cable TV, but I don't have that anyway.

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2 minutes ago, Shepanator said:

PS3 is still one of the best media centres available imo.

It plays blu-ray/dvd, you can stream media to it or save it locally on the HDD, it supports pretty much any universal bluetooth remote, it has some neat software for photos and the music visualiser is nice, and the best thing of all: the XMB interface is f'ing gorgeous!

 

The only major drawback I can think of is that it can't do passthrough for cable TV, but I don't have that anyway.

It's a good media center but oddly enough I tried to use PLEX on the PS3 recently and it was very slow and unresponsive. Very unoptimized, it could be fixed with an update but I don't really see that coming.

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1 minute ago, chilicheeseburger said:

It's a good media center but oddly enough I tried to use PLEX on the PS3 recently and it was very slow and unresponsive. Very unoptimized, it could be fixed with an update but I don't really see that coming.

 

Are you using your PS3 wired or wireless? Bear in mind that ps3 has 2005-era wifi technology which would be easily saturated with a blu-ray quality movie, and 2.4Ghz is prone to interference.

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Don't fill it with cockroaches and sell it on ebay. People don't appreciate that. (saw a story on reddit about some poor guy who got a playstation full of cockroaches)

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11 minutes ago, Shepanator said:

 

Are you using your PS3 wired or wireless? Bear in mind that ps3 has 2005-era wifi technology which would be easily saturated with a blu-ray quality movie, and 2.4Ghz is prone to interference.

Wired. It's plugged in to a switch along with all the other stuff around my TV and the switch is plugged directly into my router. Video playback wasn't really an issue either, the UI just felt incredibly sluggish.

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strange, is that specifically when streaming video or what? My ps3 is mostly a netflix box and bluray player with a little music dlna streaming, and everything zips around just fine.

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you could hack the ps3 to run the firmware that allows you to install linux. Then you can use it as a compute box as it can run openCL. Some ps3s can also unlock the locked core.

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I also have a spare PS3 lying around. Im tempted to pick up some used cheap games like need for speed rivals. Otherwise, I dont know. Installing cfw required you to downgrade the software with an E3 nor flasher, and they're like $50. 

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10 hours ago, chilicheeseburger said:

Try to repair the broken one with a replacement bluray drive.

As for the other one, you can of course use it as a bluray player. The PS3 also has some really good exclusives you can get used for cheap if you haven't played them yet. Uncharted, God of War, The Last of Us, Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls come to mind.

Not planning to repair the drive, as the cost of repair will be higher than the price of a second hand PS3. As for the 'working' one, I'll prob give it to my little brother.

9 hours ago, chilicheeseburger said:

Wired. It's plugged in to a switch along with all the other stuff around my TV and the switch is plugged directly into my router. Video playback wasn't really an issue either, the UI just felt incredibly sluggish.

But you made it work? Video playback to other devices on the network was possible?

8 hours ago, System Error Message said:

you could hack the ps3 to run the firmware that allows you to install linux. Then you can use it as a compute box as it can run openCL. Some ps3s can also unlock the locked core.

As of now, that's plan. Playing around with it and learning a thing or two. 

But it needs a use when i put Linux on it.

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2 minutes ago, xenic said:

Not planning to repair the drive, as the cost of repair will be higher than the price of a second hand PS3. As for the 'working' one, I'll prob give it to my little brother.

But you made it work? Video playback to other devices on the network was possible?

As of now, that's plan. Playing around with it and learning a thing or two. 

But it needs a use when i put Linux on it.

various, openCL compute box, media server, generic PC, it can do anything a PC can on linux as long as you compile for the CPU (MIPS + IBM CELL)

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Build a PC inside of it?

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My PS3 does just fine with DVD/Blu-Ray, Netflix and Hulu playback. I rarely use it for Plex (since I have the Mac Mini that runs my server hooked up to the same TV) but the I have it worked fine.

 

Personally I would probably fix it regardless of the cost because it would be interesting. replacing a spinning drive with an SSD and putting a new optical in would be fun.

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17 hours ago, xenic said:

I have an old Playstation 3 laying around with a broken disc reader.

As I also have a working PS3 in my living room, this one is gathering dust.

 

Any ideas what to do with it? Fun projects?

 

Was thinking about maybe turning it into some sort of media streaming device or something like that.

But have no idea what the best approach would be.

Depending on the version of your ps3, for example if you have the original 60 gig or 80 gig fat version, its backwards compatible with ps2 games. That's why I still have my 5 ps3 systems. 

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7 hours ago, xenic said:

But you made it work? Video playback to other devices on the network was possible?

Video playback was possible all the time. The only problem is the PLEX UI being slow on the PS3 while it works fine on everything else.

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