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Posted by Li'l Slugger on 01/07/06 10:22
"Alpha" <none@none.net> wrote in message
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> "Mr. X" <fake@spam.net> wrote in message
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> > "video-game dude" <videogamedude@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:1136512415.752409.219450@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> >> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v635/77bluetsunami77/cessn04Red.jpg
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> >> *Fully Software-Decoded BD Player Driven by Cell Processor
> >> (Sony-IBM-Toshiba CPU)
> >> *High Quality Image Processing Driven by RSX Graphics Processor
> >> (Nvidia GPU)
> >> *1080p/60 12bit Color HDMI Output
> >> *32bit Floating Point Color Processing
> >> *32bit Floating Point Audio Processing
> >>
> >>
> >> no need for Microsoft's crappy external strap-on external HD-DVD
> >> player for Xbox 360 which will be inferior to PS3's built-in Blu-ray
> >> and probably cost as much as a whole PS3 / X360 console.
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> > This is only possible because Blu-Ray is only MPEG2 not MPEG4.
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> > M$ sure did miss the boat on HD-DVD and HDMI though.
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> > X
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> They are not going to be able to produce this hardware in the near term at
> the price point they suggest without huge financial loses. Blu Ray keeps
> getting moved forward (some even claim it will not be consumer ready at
> price point until 2007) and HD DVD is now taking orders on Amazon.com.
"Huge financial losses" is an understatement. The first blu-ray DVD players
announced at the CES are priced at $1800. It looks like the PoS3 is going
to be the next CD-i/3DO/Neo-Geo/Virtual Boy.
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/01/05/bluray/index.php
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