blue-ray wining out?

[canaiinb]

a ps3 is not a dvd player. it might play it, but using it as a hi-def resource is like using a cone on a stick and calling it an intake

wtf are you talking about?? You put a blu-ray disk in the ps3 drive and what do you know a motion picture starts to play on my TV just like my ps2 has been playing dvds for 10 years now. never had a hicup with my ps2 or ps3 with playing dvds or blu-rays. don't hate because you probably have a blu-ray player that doesn't do half of what the ps3 does or worst yet you have a xbox 360 and your feeling salty because that external HDDVD player that you bought for it is soon gonna be obsolete. :disgust1:

 

[TurboMirage]

B could buy 50 blue-ray players if he wanted...

 

[get_nick]

Price always wins. If the HD-DVD manufacturers can keep the prices low enough to get average consumers buying them, then they've got something.

Beta was a superior format. VHS won because it was cheap. And porn. Porn did a lot for the adoption of VHS

true. but the biggest key was putting whole movies on vhs. vhs tapes could hold 120 minutes. about 2 minutes longer than the average movie in 1980.

B could buy 50 blue-ray players if he wanted...

when B bought a new tv, he told sony and microsoft to make something better and *POOF* it was done.

 

[VenDaine]

of course sony is gonna win. they invented the CD. games and blu-ray all in one. the 360 you have to buy sepratly. over all the price is higher for the 360. the only advantage is that you can buy them sepratly, peice by peice. but if you really want to pay more but in instalments, do rent to own and get a ps3. with xbox you always have to buy something else. with the original you hade to buy the remote to watch dvds. with ps its included. if you ask me, although they did get alot of game companies to back them up from the start, if microsoft isnt carful, the will go by way of dreamcast. go extict. great product, but not enough features. if dreamcast had dvd included, they would still be around. thats my personal opinion.

 

[Briansol]

wtf are you talking about?? You put a blu-ray disk in the ps3 drive and what do you know a motion picture starts to play on my TV just like my ps2 has been playing dvds for 10 years now.

sure, it 'plays' them, but it's hardly a quality unit. if you want true HD, you need a true blu-ray player. Those start around $999 and don't come with a game console attached..

B could buy 50 blue-ray players if he wanted...

lol, i could, but i haven't bought a single hd/bluray thing yet, and probably won't for some time.

of course sony is gonna win..

they lost hardcore on beta-max...

 

[reikoshea]

microsoft is releasing a native hd-dvd player xbox 360 in q2.

 

[GSRCRXsi]

what makes the 999+ blu-ray players better than cheaper ones?

 

[reikoshea]

usually its the features...like some dont have hdmi...they just have hd outputs (3 color) some dont have fiber audio available, some have a crappy UI.

There are little things that make the more expensive ones better...

 

[Briansol]

the main advantage to blue ray is it's capability of displaying native FPS.

1080p/24

1080 lines progressive, at 24 frames per second.

24p - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[nootrac22]

the main advantage to blue ray is it's capability of displaying native FPS.

1080p/24

1080 lines progressive, at 24 frames per second.

24p - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

does the ps3 do that?

 

[Briansol]

i think if it did, they would promote it.
PlayStation.com

there's not a line about it.

 

[GSRCRXsi]

i dont see the big deal about 24p. 60 looks better.

 

[Sabz5150]

LG Super Blue drive.

Problem solved. When the cash comes along, I am getting one.

 

[Briansol]

lol, what do you own that plays 60i ???? i doubt you've ever even seen it.

don't confuse 60Hz with 60i

 

[reikoshea]

a computer...video games...opengl...

 

[Briansol]

and do you have a 1080p monitor for your computer?

 

[reikoshea]

does my TV count?

im just saying, im sure the new 8800 card can do 1080p at close to 60fps on some games.

 

[Briansol]

sure. do you have a hi-def tv box on your pc? or a blue ray player in your pc?

and games are not movies. games aren't "filmed". they are tweens.

 

[reikoshea]

b, you know what i have and dont have. you know i realized i was wrong 2 posts ago, and you know im messing with you...

 

[cheese9988]

$1000 bucks? You can get a samsung for around $400 and that has hdmi, dvi, component and has the 24fps option. I paid around $500 for my older model, it came with a rebate for 5 free blue-ray movies, and it still has those features.

Samsung - Blu-ray High-Definition Disc Player - BD-P1400/X

Bad part about the samsung, and I guess a couple of other players, is that they need an update from the web to play certain movies. And movies like pirates 3, which we bought, and live free and die hard don't have the update yet. Thats the first movie out of the eight we own that won't play however.