Re: Why No One Wins in the High-Def Format War

Lloyd Parsons wrote:


The PS3 is the only real saving grace in the BD camp and even it isn't safe. Lots of the BD fan club is convinced that the PS3 can and will be upgraded to the new profiles, but Sony has been completely mum about it. And then there is the issue of the PS3 being a game machine and lots of us wouldn't buy it at all because of that.

Upgrade? Where have you been? The PS3 NOW does True HD non compressed
audio.

It also plays HD BR movies.

It ALSO plays games.

Nothing wrong with the PS3 except for the poor sales compared to other gaming systems, and the relative lack of quality games specifically for it.

What year are you living in that we're still juding PS3 as a game-industry machine?...Was it some year before the Wii came out? ;)

PS3 has no reason left (certainly not games) to sell itself as anything *but* an odd-looking Blu-ray player that's been getting its share of the good tech reviews--
Unless, like me, you happen to be somebody in the "gamer-curious" non-gamer camp who never owned a PS2 in his life, in which case...ermmm, it's worth considering.

But TrueHD has exactly zero to do with Profile 1.1. Profile 1.1, among other things, requires interactivity like PIP and such. While the feeling is that the PS3 has enough ooomph to be upgraded via firmware to that new profile, Sony is completely mum about it.

Yeah, and Sharp's still mum about its player specs--
If they're making it up as they go along, at least it's fresh out of the oven.

So maybe you should answer where you've been! :-)

And that is the point. Even assuming that the PS3 will be upgraded to the new profile, all the rest of the BD players cannot be. So it is either buy a new BD player, buy a PS3 or do without the new to BD things that profile 1.1 allows for.

Uh, gee, Alex, I'll go with "Buy a PS3, since it seems to work"! ^_^

Derek Janssen (who, FTR, hasn't played a PS game since Final Fantasy VII, on that Mac-emulator patch. For PS1. Eleven years ago.)
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