Do you use your consoles for something other than gaming?

[Redwall Muzyczka Redwall Muzyczka Redwall Muzyczka's icon]

I remember letting my mom borrow my PS1 a lot so she could listen to her favorite CDs.

I also have rather fond memories of using the Dreamcast as a sort of "emergency" player to watch movies on the VCD format before acquiring a secondhand PS2 and letting it handle that bit (which, if I'm being honest, was a bit of a dumb move, considering how worn the laser was by the time I got my hands on it).

And, of course, I have used both the PS3 and the PS4 to watch Netflix and browse the internet from time to time.

What about you?

 

[Dr.Kisaragi]

I use to listen music on ps1 and playing DVD on my ps2 fat but ever since I playing ps2 dvd it cannot run games anymore so my Ps2 slim is for pure gaming.

 

[Miles]

I also have rather fond memories of using the Dreamcast as a sort of "emergency" player to watch movies on the VCD format before acquiring a secondhand PS2 and letting it handle that bit (which, if I'm being honest, was a bit of a dumb move, considering how worn the laser was by the time I got my hands on it).

You can watch movies on the Dreamcast?!

 

[Redwall Muzyczka Redwall Muzyczka Redwall Muzyczka's icon]

You can watch movies on the Dreamcast?!

On VCD, yeah. I think you need a special CD for it to start the player... But it's literally been decades, so I can't tell for sure if that's how it actually worked.

 

[reakain]

I maybe use my psp as a fun lil word processor/note taker. And then my ps4 (and previously my ps3) is my default bluray/dvd player.

I also stumbled on a kanji dictionary for the nintendo ds, so I use that to look things up when I'm trying to read/write Japanese. (It actually has very good character recognition from the stylus scribbling. It's pretty impressive)

 

[MasterEn]

i used my ps2 and ps3 to watch dvds, my psp and vita to listen to music and watch videos from or on the internet, my 360 to watch dvds as well. now i make my laptop and phone do that stuff.

 

[Miles]

On VCD, yeah. I think you need a special CD for it to start the player... But it's literally been decades, so I can't tell for sure if that's how it actually worked.

Is VCD a DVD but with only the storage capacity of a CD?

 

[Redwall Muzyczka Redwall Muzyczka Redwall Muzyczka's icon]

Is VCD a DVD but with only the storage capacity of a CD?

Pretty much, yeah. It's also kind of stubborn, but it was a HUGE extra for me at the time, specially given that my internet was just 1 MB, so downloading movies on DVD quality was downright suicidal.

 

[starseeker300]

I use my 360 to watch movies on dvd in addition to still playing games on it, kinda wish it had blue ray capabilities sometimes but its no big deal

 

[Tonberry]

My Xbox is more or less my TV too. I use it for YouTube and streaming apps.
And I use my PS4 to watch blurays and dvds.

 

[Rox00]

The PS4 in my home for some time was used as the Youtube machine before TVs got to the point of having Youtube on it as a app.
Though sometimes the PS5 is used as a Blu-ray machine if I have to watch a movie or series with someone.

 

[Orclease]

I have a softmodded original Xbox that I use to rip the game discs to the hard drive and then delete them after as a test before selling. This seems to be a more reliable than play testing for a few mins as the rip needs to read every file on the disc to successfully complete.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

Because I had the PS2 Apart from playing you could also play music just like the predecessor (PS1) and the PS3 that my older cousin had to watch movies.

 

[Turbo Kid]

Nope

They're gaming consoles. I play games on them. It's why I bought them.

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

I use my PS1 as an audio CD player.

 

[Redwall Muzyczka Redwall Muzyczka Redwall Muzyczka's icon]

Nope

They're gaming consoles. I play games on them. It's why I bought them.

I respect that.

As I said on my opening post, using the PS2 as a DVD player only harmed it in the end.

 

[JG5009]

I use my PSP as a music player since it does that flawlessly, I also like to take photos of the environment with my 3DS o DSi, I don't mind the incredible0.3 megapixels, the images have that cheap camera from the 2000s feeling and I like that, it forces me to be creative.

 

[MasterEn]

I respect that.

As I said on my opening post, using the PS2 as a DVD player only harmed it in the end.

you say it was harmed in the end by that feature, but i think sony would disagree. it ranks number 1 in the world in sales with 160 million units sold; many of those sales were for the fact that it not only played dvds and music cd but games as well; making it a true all in one family entertainment system.

 

[Segadude113]

Yeah. My PS2 to play movies and anime, my PS3 to play downloaded MP3s and MP4s as well as blurays, and now my PS4 just for blurays. On my old Mac i used to listen to CDs all the time because i had no internet back then but i did have a bunch of CDs. :D I couldn't burn them, but i could play them. I didn't start burning CDs until my family got a Windows XP and my dad showed me Limewire. That was the only way i could listen to the OST from Full Throttle outside playing the actual game. No store sold the album at the time and asking for any CD was a pain in the ass because the people working in music stores wouldn't know what the heck you were talking about even with the band and album info. Same with anime. I asked for Sakura Wars and the dude turned up Sucker Punch.

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

I used to. Not so much these days.
I remember burning CDs to my Xbox 360 and using the in-console music player to put on music while I was playing some games. Borderlands and Primus made a pretty fun mix!
You could also use that music as custom entrance themes in some wrestling games!

Other than that, I have used my various Playstation consoles to play DVDs/Blu-Rays. Although, I have since bought a region free Blu-Ray player to fill that need.

 

[RETRO-VETRO]

Homebrewing

 

[Turbo Kid]

I respect that.

As I said on my opening post, using the PS2 as a DVD player only harmed it in the end.

The thing is, there is so many ways to watch and listen to stuff these days that the only reason for me to actually turn on one of my game consoles is if I actually want to play a video game.

 

[Redwall Muzyczka Redwall Muzyczka Redwall Muzyczka's icon]

you say it was harmed in the end by that feature, but i think sony would disagree. it ranks number 1 in the world in sales with 160 million units sold; many of those sales were for the fact that it not only played dvds and music cd but games as well; making it a true all in one family entertainment system.

No, I meant because it was secondhand and the laser really couldn't have taken much more than that -- it's currently on storage because it can't do much of anything anymore, which really saddens me.

 

[MasterEn]

No, I meant because it was secondhand and the laser really couldn't have taken much more than that -- it's currently on storage because it can't do much of anything anymore, which really saddens me.

oh. i guess i missed that part.
hopefully you can find a retro game store to take it to and get it repaired. if not, depending on the model, you can set up some homebrew to play games off of a hard drive or flash drive. the hard drives are supposed to reduce load times to an insanely small amount, sometimes being instantaneous.

 

[Frickinfrik]

Yes, I use my PS4 to watch DVDs and Blu Rays