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Posted by Jay G. on 06/25/06 02:05
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 19:06:42 -0400, Joshua Zyber wrote:
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>> The BD movie player will cost 999 USD.
>> So can someone shoot some sense at me? The PS3 also is a DVD and BD
>> movie player, and a 7-cored video game system. Why the heck does it
>> cost less than a BD movie-only player?
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> 1) All video game consoles are sold at a loss. The company makes its
> money back on software licensing.
Not true. Nintendo has claimed to never have sold a concole at a loss.
> 2) All video game consoles are lousy movie playback devices.
http://gear.ign.com/articles/316/316429p1.html
"As for image quality, the Xbox actually surprised me. The picture
might not be as good as many high-end DVD players, and, of course,
there's no progressive scan, but it is better than average."
http://www.gamesfirst.com/articles/jeremyk/ps2dvd/ps2dvd.htm
"If you were looking at your typical department store brand DVD
players (say, in the $179.99-$249.99 range), the PS2 is just as
good if not better"
They were considered fairly decent DVD players in their day, although later
or more expensive standalone players have surpassed them.
> Expect horrible quality video from the PS3
> (even worse than the standalone Blu-ray players).
Why would you expect that? The PS3 should be able to handle the discs
themselves fine, considering it's the same format that the games are going
to come on. Which leaves the video and audio processing, which considering
that Toshiba is using an off-the-shelf Pentium 4 processor for their HD DVD
players, really shouldn't be a problem for the Cell processor.
-Jay
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