Hi, I have recently bought a playstation 3 (60gb) and wanted to utilise the hard drive. I know it is very easy to save music CD’s on it (just import) but is there a way of saving films or games on it? Either real dvd’s (shop bought) or copied films that are on dvd’rs…
Can you just save games on the system?
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How do you copy and paste once the dvd is in, mine just sais play or eject??
ow forgot to mention, im not very technically minded, with the cd the whole import was nice and easy, im not going to be much good at anything too complex… talk to me like im thick 
You can store video, and you can store downloaded games, but it is not possible to import either a ps2 game or a dvd movie to hard drive. The main reason is that the ps3 recognized both ps2 game discs, and the dvd-movie format, and disables any copy options.
This is true both for copy-protected commercial dvd’s and unencrypted dvd’s too. What matters is that it’s in dvd-video format: the .VOB files, the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders, the menu structure etc.
You can however copy stuff from data DVD’s. You could, for instance, convert your DVD into mpeg 4 format, then burn it to a dvd-rw. You could import it to your ps3 hard drive with that.
It might be possible to get a ps2 game onto your hard drive the same way, but I don’t think it would do you much good. You’ve got the 60gb, which is the best one, but that means it contains the ps2 cpu… it probably won’t play anything that isn’t on an original ps2 game disc.
Yes, is easy, make you sure update latest driver, ps3 work many video formal like divx, basically try copy and past to a dvd. then try to play in ps3, if work, use the menu put copy to your hard drive.
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You can store video, and you can store downloaded games, but it is not possible to import either a ps2 game or a dvd movie to hard drive. The main reason is that the ps3 recognized both ps2 game discs, and the dvd-movie format, and disables any copy options.
This is true both for copy-protected commercial dvd’s and unencrypted dvd’s too. What matters is that it’s in dvd-video format: the .VOB files, the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders, the menu structure etc.
You can however copy stuff from data DVD’s. You could, for instance, convert your DVD into mpeg 4 format, then burn it to a dvd-rw. You could import it to your ps3 hard drive with that.
It might be possible to get a ps2 game onto your hard drive the same way, but I don’t think it would do you much good. You’ve got the 60gb, which is the best one, but that means it contains the ps2 cpu… it probably won’t play anything that isn’t on an original ps2 game disc.
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