Posted by Derek Janssen on 01/23/08 07:54

StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:47:45 GMT, "Rubberband" <gt56r4e@fgt.com> wrote:
>
>
>>"Derek Janssen" <ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote in message
>>news:xTzlj.5637$5h6.235@trndny09...
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>>>Engine Grease wrote:
>>>
>>>>Sony Shill..
>>>>
>>>>Beta Ray profile 5.0 in 2010
>>>
>>>And our PS3's will download it just fine. ^_^

>>Got that in writing? Have a contract?
>>
>>Have that much trust in Sony? I don't but we'll see. I'll get a Standalone
>>late next year if Beta Ray is cheap.
>>I'm not using my PS3 as a movie player. That's just weird.
>
> It plays games. So it acts as a game console.
> It boots Linux. So it acts like a computer.
> It plays movies from the same front end OS that it plays the games
> from. So it acts like a media playback device.
> That is one of the device's primary functions.
> It's not weird, it's common sense.

And yes, I know we're AVD'ers are all deeply scarred and neurotically
traumatized and untrustful--with any mention of the B or P-words
haunting us with the ghosts of Blu-D00d--but in the real world, it's
become the sad galling fact of the industry:
Namely that in terms of Sony, Panasonic, LG and Samsung, on the playing
fields of BD loading times, DVD upscaling, price, bonus-feature
compatability, HDMI and 1.1 - 2.0 upgrade adaptability, not only have
none of the standalones have caught up with the "game machine" as of
yet, but as for the machine itself...DAY-um. 0_0

It's possible we may see Sony's next generation of '08-'09 standalones
start taking some technical cues from The One Blu Player in the
Marketplace That Works, and Boy Does It Ever, but if that's what won the
War, we can gladly toss our Usenet pride out the window.

Derek Janssen (just paint a "Samsung" on the front of it, if it'll help
you sleep at night)
ejanss1@verizon.net

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