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Posted by ChairmanOfTheBored on 10/17/07 07:15
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:09:55 GMT, Derek Janssen
<ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:
>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.
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>>> 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--
Bullshit. It is far more than that.
http://cag.csail.mit.edu/ps3/lectures/6.189-lecture2-cell.pdf
>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.
Oh, and try:
http://cag.csail.mit.edu/ps3/index.shtml
Then there's:
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/university/students/contests/cell/index.html
PS3s are far more than you give them credit for. I have yet to buy a
game for mine. At $60 a pop, the idiots can keep 'em.
Too bad you won't be able to DL and load and look at those demos of the
Cell CPU's capabilities done by MIT students.
Awesome stuff coming down the pipe.
Try to stay somewhere within a few miles of the curve. :-]
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