Blu-ray movies on the PS3, without the disc
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted Feb 17th 2007 2:30PM
posted Feb 17th 2007 2:30PM
A hacker that goes by the functional name of "hacked2123" has posted a guide that shows how it's possible to convert a Blu-ray movie to a regular MPEG file and play it back on a PlayStation 3 using not much more than a regular PC and a copy of Linux. If we're honest, the whole "playing Blu-ray movies on the PS3 without the disk" thing is only really a symbol: the only reason the PS3 is involved is because it's a relatively cheap way of accessing Blu-ray. The rest of the instructions are identical to ripping a Blu-ray film using your PC by decrypting the file; hacked2123 was just clever enough to think of placing the unencrypted MPEG file back on the console, resulting in a fanoy-riling PlayStation 3 that plays Blu-ray movies without requiring the Blu-ray disc to be inserted. Of course, that process involved a lot of command line tweaking and loading screens (with the added benefit of zero lag when fast forwarding, courtesy of the hard drive) which is far beyond our geek intellect, so Mr. Hacked2123 certainly picks up the kudos for putting it into a linear guide for us. We long for the day when a logical and morally acceptable activity such as this is commonplace and easy to execute. Take a look after the break for some video of the stunt in action, cinéma vérité style.[Thanks, TC]
"...resulting in a fanoy-riling PlayStation 3 that plays Blu-ray movies without requiring the Blu-ray disc to be inserted."
Why cant fanoys just get along? There needs to be peace in the console fanoy world, so future fanoys can live in fanoy harmony.
P.S. With Linux available for the PS3, it was only a matter of time until this would happen.
Lol, it's Fanoys that keep everything interesting. Without Fanoys to giggle about, I don't know what I'd do.
it was only a matter of time before someone would figure it out
How many 50GB Blu-Ray titles can I put on my PS3?
Whilst it's a nice feat, seems pretty unpractical..
Depends on your hard drive capacity, on my case, is over 100 Blu-rays (25Gb each).
You can use external drives.
Really? Where can I get myself a 2.5TB HDD? Please, do tell.
...now the search for something worth watching.
More stupid sh!t from Engadet, the PS3 can play Mpeg video, no sh!t, so can the PC. Whats the point of pirating 20-50GBs movie files, that's without all the fancy stuff and the 7.1 sound. Both HD-DVD and Blu-ray volume keys are ripped, and they can be extracted, is it so much news if they took those ripped files and played them on the PS3. Especially playing a movie that most people got free with the PS3 anyway.
caturday has invaded engadget
I just wanted to say, *pwnt.
I only left a comment because of the sweet/cute picture.
Another reason for me to pick up a PS3
@Ben
You didn't ask for USB or FW.
So here you go: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10784
Or google for RAID to find a cheaper RAID solution.
Hacked2123 wasnot the first to post how to do this. Check maxconsole,and his way does not work, I have tried with no success. Try my short tut on maxconsole.
Awesome!