{"id":3140,"date":"2013-08-17T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2013-08-17T05:00:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T09:00:38","slug":"the-new-game-consoles-first-impressions-by-a-non-gamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=3140","title":{"rendered":"The New Game Consoles – First Impressions by a Non Gamer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I was browsing my usual sources when I noticed that several game consoles<\/a>\"\" have been made available for pre-order. And although I am not a “gamer”, I thought I’d look into these consoles as entertainment devices and give you my first impressions. <\/p>\n

Reading through the technical specifications one can gather that both the
\nPlayStation 4<\/a> and Xbox One<\/a>\"\" will be able to play and stream music and film.<\/p>\n

Both have Blu-ray players so they can play DVDs and Blu-ray discs and both have access to music and film services online via an Ethernet port or 802.11 b\/g\/n wireless network connectivity. <\/p>\n

Cloud services are a big selling point with both consoles and both of these devices are powered by 8-core x86 processors with 8GB of RAM so they should be able to handle everything. But I haven’t been able to confirm an ability to use Skype <\/a> on the PlayStation 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I don’t know if they are expecting to implement it in response to the requests by PS3 users. But they did install it on the Vita so a Skype <\/a> app may make it’s way onto the PlayStation 4<\/a> like it has on Xbox One<\/a>\"\".<\/p>\n

I haven’t explored the full functionality of Skype <\/a> on my home entertainment system. But I would want to have access to it so I’m going to look into this a little more.<\/p>\n

In regards to Youtube and Facebook, both devices appear to have apps to handle those social networks so I would probably use either to browse both sites. And both devices will probably have CinemaNow and Netflix apps, in case I want to use those online film rental services.<\/p>\n

The ability to stream music and video from home computers and network drives is also made available on both devices. <\/p>\n

A DLNA compatible network drive should be accessible on the PlayStation 4<\/a> whilst media on Windows PCs should be accessible on the Xbox One<\/a>\"\". But I’ve also heard that the PlayStation 4<\/a> allows the use of used games, allowing me to dabble in gaming as well.<\/p>\n

The PlayStation 4’s<\/a> lower sticker price at $399 makes it more attractive than the $499 Xbox One<\/a>\"\" but the latter has HDMI Pass-Thru, allowing people to connect watch TV on their console.<\/p>\n

I currently have a Blu-ray player and Smart TV with most of the apps and capabilities that I want but either game consoles would probably fulfill my needs if I were to decide to upgrade. And I have no particular preference for either when it comes to games because most of the games I play are on my Windows based PC. <\/p>\n

Had the Xbox One<\/a>\"\" been $100 cheaper I would probably have gone with that console because of the HDMI Pass-Thru and networking with my current computer. But overall I’d say they’re neck and neck, though I’m sure gamers have another opinion. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I was browsing my usual sources when I noticed that several game consoles have been made available for pre-order. And although I am not a “gamer”, I thought I’d look into these consoles as entertainment devices and give you my first impressions. Reading through the technical specifications one can gather that both the PlayStation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7],"tags":[135,222,351,411,413],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}