Posted by Derek Janssen on 10/17/07 05:09

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.)
ejanss1@comcast.net

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