Sony PlayStation 3 Blu-ray Disc Remote

Product Details

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• ASIN: B000M17AVO


• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 5 x 2 inches ; 8.6 ounces


• Media: Video Game


• Release Date: January 9, 2007
  

By : Sony
Price : $22.97
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Product Description

Sony PlayStation 3 Blu-ray Disc Remote

 

Sony PlayStation 3 Blu-ray Disc Remote

 

Item Characteristics

• Weighted, anti-skid bottom and flexible to fit any dash


• Functions with any suction-cup mount bracket

Buyer Evaluations

I did not assume I needed yet a different remote manage since I thought the six-axis had every thing it required for movie playing on the PS3 and, however, I purchased a single. There had been two initial reasons:
- my wife was missing a 'magic wand' shaped remote for playing films
- Amazon had it at a great cost in one particular of them lightning deals
I ended up employing it myself and, in truth, making use of it for more than just movie playing - see below.
But, let's do a quick inventory of functions:
= It's blue-tooth enabled and, as a result, it's not taking any ports on your PS3. This is possibly significant for any person who has a "two-USB ports console".
= It's wand-shaped, permitting the non-gamers to control their movie-watching activities when holding a familiar-shaped device in their hand.
= It maps ALL the six-axis buttons and performs every little thing a six-axis would do, except for the joystick attributes of R3 and L3 (but you do have the push-down or 'click' abilities for them).
= two AA battery powered (nevertheless with the original Sony batteries soon after four months of use)
= Includes additional buttons that the movie-only users would expect on a remote such as:
+ a number pad
+ eject
+ red, green, blue, yellow buttons
+ play, stop, pause
+ slow(step), scan(left/appropriate), prev/next
+ display, top menu, pop up menu, return
+ subtitles, angle, audio
What is intriguing about this remote is that you can use it for considerably more than movie-playing. Offered that it has all the six-axis buttons, guess what? You can use it, and I do use it to:
- surf the net
- play music
- shop at the PSN store
- play particular games such as Sudoku
- turn the PS3 on/off when your six-axis controllers are in the charger and I am playing GT5 that is employing a racing wheel
And, yes, you CAN turn the PS3 on and off with this remote. Turning it on is simple - you basically press the PlayStation button and the PS3 turns itself on. To turn it off, you either go as far to the left on the X-bar and all the way up and press Enter (the turn-off PlayStation icon will be highlighted) or you basically hold the PlayStation button pressed for a couple of seconds and then select 'yes' and press the X button a couple of occasions.
Overall: I am pleased with this peripheral. Yes, it really is a single extra remote control but it really is a pretty really good one particular, for the causes I stated above.
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Notes - Aug 29, 2009, soon after 16 months of use
I discover that I'm applying the remote way more and a great deal more, not only for playing films but for navigating the XMB and at the PSN Retailer, also when playing music or slideshows. Due to its quite hassle-free arrows wheel with an 'enter' button in the middle, navigating the PS3 and carrying out just about something other than playing games is a lot less difficult than using the PS3 game controller. Unlike the controller which commonly requires two hands to hold, this is generally a 1-hand operation exactly where you hold the remote in a single hand and operate the wheel with your thumb. And due to the fact it is Bluetooth, not IR (Infrared), you don't even require to point it at the PS3.
And, 1 word on battery life. Soon after about 15-16 months of operation, this is quite possibly the third set of batteries so I'd estimate battery life to be about four-6 months. Not as well bad.

If you want to pause your movie, you hit "Pause". If you want to begin your movie once again, you hit "Play". But between the "Pause" and "Play" buttons is "Cease". Here Be Dragons.
"Cease" means it. "Stop" doesn't just quit the video from playing, it quits out of the Blu-Ray player and returns you all the way to the root PS3 menu. To start out watching your disk once more you need to have to select the Blu-Ray disk once more, wait for it to boot up, wade by way of whatever previews and coming attractions are on the disk, re-allow the right subtitles and menu settings, wait for the many different FBI and MPAA warnings, locate the location exactly where it stopped playing, and then resume watching. Hitting "Quit" whether or not you wanted to or not suggests you're going to invest at least the subsequent five minutes not watching your movie.
The "Cease" button is so big and so centrally positioned that I cannot count the number of instances I've hit it in error, either by poking at "Pause" or "Play" in my darkened living space or by sitting on the controller. It is gone from getting an occasionally frustrating surprise, to being an infuriatingly typical blunder, all the way around to getting some sort of perverse comic relief. "What happened? Why did the movie just cease? Did you hit the Stop button by accident once more? You did? THE REMOTE GOT US Once again. WE HATE YOU, REMOTE."
There are 3 ways that Sony could solve this issue.
- They could re-label the button "Ruin My Evening", and replace the pushbutton with 1 of those covered security switches that are implemented in military cockpits to arm weapons. A button with consequences this substantial wants to be clearly marked with a protective cover that you have to move aside, so that there's no way you will finish up pushing it by accident devoid of understanding what it is going to really do.
- They could just get rid of the "Stop" button entirely. Nobody would miss it. There's already a "Pause" button if you will need to take a break. There is a "Best Menu" button to return you to the leading menu. There's a "PS3" button to pop up the media bar (with an choice to quit the player), and an "Eject" button that also quits the player although ejecting the disk. There is absolutely nothing that the "Stop" button should do that an additional button is not already performing.
- They could make the "Quit" button just return the user to the leading level Blu Ray menu, and not quit out of the complete player. They could also make "Play" the opposite of "Quit", where "Play" returns you to playing what "Stop" stopped you from playing.
Apart from the "Stop" button this would be a completely fine remote with a four or five star review. It's nicely built, it runs for weeks or months without batteries, and because it's Bluetooth (not IR) it does not will need to be pointed at the player with line-of-sight to function. It is like a nicely-built Mercedes, with an additional pedal in between the gas and brake that tends to make all four wheels fall off. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT.
Update: It's in fact quite effortless to eliminate the stop button yourself. Undo the screw on the underside at the bottom of the remote and meticulously pry the upper and lower halves apart. Beneath the rubber buttons there is a layer of conducting pads, a plastic spacer layer, and the circuit board. You can either use a hobby knife to cut out the conducting pad that triggers the stop, or you can put tape more than the circuit board speak to to render the cease button mercifully unusable.

 

Sony PlayStation 3 Blu-ray Disc Remote

 

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