Can you charge the dualshock 3 on the PC?

[riley420]

Well...can you?

I don't feel like leaving the PS3 on all day.

 

[Maynard]

yes...any USB port...i use the one on my cable box

 

[riley420]

Word to your mother.

Thanks.

 

[MrBill]

If your DVR or cable box has a USB port on it, you can always use that as well. That way I always have a fully charged controller ready to go.

 

[MmmmBeeeeer]

I use the on on my TV :wiggle:

 

[krulmichael]

If your DVR or cable box has a USB port on it, you can always use that as well. That way I always have a fully charged controller ready to go.

That's genius sir! I knew bout the PC/Laptop, but I never thought about using my cable box.

 

[MrBill]

That's genius sir! I knew bout the PC/Laptop, but I never thought about using my cable box.

Glad to help :beer:

 

[MmmmBeeeeer]

You can even charge it in your car on the go if your car has a usb port :bow:

 

[brees fan]

question, why does my cable box have a usb port? What else can I do with this nifty discovery...

 

[MrBill]

question, why does my cable box have a usb port? What else can I do with this nifty discovery...

A lot of them were designed to support an external USB hard drive to either add space to your existing DVR storage or archive older content that you want to save.

 

[brees fan]

O rly? If thats the case I need to figure out how to do that shit, it would be alot better than me going to jail for dling some of the show/movies I do...specially since Im paying for all these movie channels... I'm guessing that they are in some special format that will only play on my dvr box though right?

 

[MrBill]

O rly? If thats the case I need to figure out how to do that shit, it would be alot better than me going to jail for dling some of the show/movies I do...specially since Im paying for all these movie channels... I'm guessing that they are in some special format that will only play on my dvr box though right?

It wouldn't help you record or playback any content that your cable box isn't authorized to receive and it would likely store it in a proprietary format that would just work on any DVR.

 

[brees fan]

wouldn't expect it to record anything I couldn't record, just would be nice to be able to keep things without filling up my dvr, thanks for the info, sold me on getting an external hard drive, I was needing one for awhile just didn't have a good enough excuse to spend the money...

 

[krulmichael]

So essentially what you guys are saying is you could transfer a recorded show/movie to your external hard drive to store extra space or let's say you go over to a friends house with the external HD, you plug it in and you could play it on theirs? Am I getting that right?

 

[brees fan]

Thats what I gathered anyways, haven't investigated on my own figured mr.bill was a good enough source...

 

[MrBill]

wouldn't expect it to record anything I couldn't record, just would be nice to be able to keep things without filling up my dvr, thanks for the info, sold me on getting an external hard drive, I was needing one for awhile just didn't have a good enough excuse to spend the money...

Double check with your cable provider to make sure they have that feature active in the firmware they use on their system. I know that Time Warner did for the Scientific Atlanta box they used here locally but other providers around the country that used the same box did not have it enabled.

So essentially what you guys are saying is you could transfer a recorded show/movie to your external hard drive to store extra space or let's say you go over to a friends house with the external HD, you plug it in and you could play it on theirs? Am I getting that right?

Yes, if the external drive feature is offered by your cable provider. I'm not 100% on whether or not it would work on your friends cable box or not, the content might be locked to the serial number of the box it was originally recorded on...probably varies by provider.

 

[brees fan]

oh then it probably wouldn't work, comcast=assholes. Im still going to use it as an excuse to buy a hard drive though... oh and to be on topic with the thread you can actually use you ps3 controller with your pc with a driver update, its better than buying the attachment to make your wireless xbox controller to work, only problem is when I have the driver installed none of mp3 players are recongized, only work around ive found so far is uninstalling the drivers when I dont need them...

 

[Jagsfan61]

If your DVR or cable box has a USB port on it, you can always use that as well. That way I always have a fully charged controller ready to go.

good shit! now i will always have a charged controller toooo