Video Streaming and Editing on the Playstation 4

The PS3 isn’t just for gaming anymore, but for media playing as well, thanks to Sony’s additions. Now the gaming console can integrate various tools for video streaming. Rumors around the world about the PlayStation 4 suggests that the media player options will get even better!  Despite Sony has its own video streaming service, it provided access to various third party application to enhance the media experience of PlayStation 3. This has been proven to be an initial achievement of media streaming service.

PlayStation 4 might be having more advanced application built-in with in the system, which provides access to all the popular video streaming providers like Youtube, Dailymotion, Netflix, VidZone, MUBI, VUDU, Hulu Plus, etc. Already, most of the above mentioned third party tools have a wide range of support through PlayStation 3. Most of these media streaming service providers have a paid service network where users need to subscribe for the required services. Users will be allowed to get these subscriptions through Sony’s new authentication process which will enable more security over the network. Other than this Video on demand service, Sony’s Video editor tool was a major success. Following its Success over this Video editor application Sony has planned to introduce an application for cutting edge editing of High definition videos. This application is believed to be installed with the System software bundle. This Video editing software may provide ability to edit three dimensional videos and it might have the ability to split videos based on the timeline.

This Video editing tool might have a bundled feature of extraction audio separately from the inputted video. Users will have option to edit the audio embedded in the videos. Users may have various options to enhance and boost the sound of a video. This application is expected to have a built in capability to upload the video files directly to the social media networks like Youtube, Facebook, etc. PlayStation 4 will be the first gaming console to come with a built-in video editing tool for High Definition videos.

Playstation 4 hands free gaming?

The high end clash between the console manufacturers has begun after the introduction of wireless motion sensor controllers. This motion sensor war was initiated by Nintendo’s Wii Remote which accurately detects the human motion and captures orientation of human body and acceleration and delivers in the form of images to the receiver.

Though Sony has introduced PlayStation Move, a game controller which enables motion sensing in PlayStation 3 devices, it’s always believed that Sony is way behind its competitors in manufacturing motion sensing controllers & motion sensing supportive devices. PlayStation Move is similar to that of Nintendo’s Wii remote which captures every movement and sends it as an image sensor to the receptors, which in turn processes the image and provides an accurate gaming experience. After the success of PlayStation Move with the integration of PlayStation 3, Sony’s main target is to detect the motion of human body without any remote controller device, making it more similar to Xbox Kinect.

More rumors in social media websites says that Sony has invested a huge sum of money in researching a new form of motion sensing controllers and that will be implemented in PlayStation 4. Social media hype is always believable up to some extent, as the similar console developers like Microsoft and Nintendo has already achieved this. Sony’s PlayStation 4 will be the next rock star in the console world if it can perfect motion sensing technology.

Already Microsoft’s latest Xbox 360 release has blown up all the console manufacturers with its controller free technology. Historical data shows Sony has always won the war of Game Controllers. The Dualshock 3 released for PlayStation 3 was a major hit when compared to that of Xbox 360 gamepad. With the combination of PlayStation Move, PlayStation 3 has moved one step ahead of Microsoft’s Xbox. Hope Sony’s PlayStation 4 will continue to be the best competitor for Xbox 360 and hope it will win the war of Game Controllers again.

So what will the PS4 motion sensing gaming look like?

PlayStation 4 a gamble over memory

The next-generation world is believed to be nothing without internet and gadgets. Almost all the gadgets around the world support quick access to the internet world. This is nothing new to the PlayStation 4, as the previous version PlayStation supports wide range of services through internet. But it is believed that the PS4 will push this digital era by including a social networking app into the PSN, increasing access to the latest games and media in a virtual drive.

This application is rumored to use cloud computing to give access to the PS4 customers to play the game in the cloud and provide an on-demand service. Whenever any user needs to play a specific game they don’t need to download it, just they need to subscribe to the game available in the cloud and they will be provided access to play the game whenever they need. This cloud application is rumored to be released with the beta version which is expected to solve memory issues and is expected to have huge drop in price of PlayStation 4 despite its high end configuration. The benefit: we won’t have to worry about upgrading to the next step up harddrive, since the cloud stores it and not the console itself.

Users subscribed to the games will have a virtual drive other than the internal hard drive and the subscribed games will have a shortcut in that virtual drive so that user doesn’t need to authenticate again through cloud. Though this rumor doesn’t have a strong source, this technical change is expected from all gadget providers as cloud computing is the upcoming solution for disc space related issues. If this is implemented PS4 will be the first device which has a built in on-demand game service provider, since other game consoles use downloading onto a harddrive instead.

Though several third party applications provides a limited on-demand gaming service in PlayStation 3, this new application in Playstation 4 is expected to bring huge turnover to the gaming market as it provides access to play games through PlayStation 4′s authentication service and with which users can play in the same way as they play through internal/external hard discs. The only drawback: any time someone wants to plan a game, they must be online. No more playing some little game without PSN friends knowing.

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