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awesome
Serafitia said:Oh damn you DSN. Now I'm getting flashbacks.
/me recalls her batman-like vow to not buy a sony launch system.
I hope I don't bend.
Tabris said:Haha, backward compatibility. Awesome!
Now it just needs a built-in HDD, and the lack of HDD support on the pstwo is no longer a problem.
Kleegamefan said:This just confirms what most of us knew already(concerning BRD)
If the price is within reason,(and it probably will be)PS3 should push HDTV sales..
I, for one, wouldn't mind playing GT5 @1920 x 1080p resolution..you *know* it'll happen
True, but what would be the point of reading the disc if it can't run the software?sonycowboy said:We still don't have confirmation of BC do we? It will read the discs, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will run the software. I'm sure it's more a formality, but still.
Defensor said:True, but what would be the point of reading the disc if it can't run the software?
We still don't have confirmation of BC do we? It will read the discs, but that doesn't necessarily mean it will run the software. I'm sure it's more a formality, but still.
Kleegamefan said:Richard Doherty, the Managing Director for Blu-ray at the Panasonic Hollywood Labs has stated that *ALL* BRD products will be backwards compatible with CDs and DVDs...
And here are the BRD technical white papers:
http://www.blu-raydisc.com/Section-13628/Index.html
Of course. Or they could license HD-DVD. Or they could go their own way again.WordofGod said:So can Nintendo license this blu-ray disc tech for their revolution?
Joe said:but i dont wanna be left out on features and/or discounted prices.
, for one, wouldn't mind playing GT5 @1920 x 1080p resolution..you *know* it'll happen
In a market that largely consisted of interlaced TV output, that made sense. But since the only thing that will get full value out of BRD or HD-DVD is an HDTV and most of those are natively pro-scan, I doubt such a transition will take as long. BRD is already designed for 1080p output.Look how long it took for progressive DVD players
1080i sure, but I'm not convinced about the p. Look how long it took for progressive DVD players, and they were premium priced. I can see PS3 being interlaced only, and you'll need the videophile player for 1080p output.
Easy, Klee. I think the rebuttal here is valid. Whatever the PS3 has for overall performance, 1080p would likely be at the extreme of its *gaming* performance. GT4, by all indications, won't be a 480p game on the PS2 (even though more and more of the best looking PS2 games are supporting it these days) so why expect GT5 to be a 1080p game on the PS3? The GT crew seems to put the emphasis on physics engine performance and attempts to excel visually more through exceptional art design rather than creating a powerhouse visual engine.The 1080p GT5 thing was a prediction by me, yes....but if this thing has Teraflop performance I doubt they would cripple the game output (remember, the BRD-ROM movie output has to support 1080p) of it by limiting them to just 480p....
The reasons why the PS3 won't do this or that seems to go on and on and on...
DCharlie said:saying all this, as a gamer, the only thing Sony would gain over a HD-DVD equiped Xbox 2 would be increased movie support right?
on a gaming level, there would be little difference .... ?
I think this next gen all may come down to who spent what to get certain results and who can lock in which 3rd parties. I don't think there is going to be much, if any, difference in performance between the consoles next gen.
shpankey said:wow, awesome news. Sony always makes brilliant hardware decisions... I am impressed with Sony in this regard.
Count me as a first day buyer.
Panajev2001a said:Ditto.
Surprised?
MaddenNFL64 said:the only real advantage to BRDs at the moment is the extra storage.
TekunoRobby said:Ha ha ha ha ha oh god, 54GB?
Insanely large, I'D LOVE to see what the developers use to fill that up. This has me genuinly excited for the PS3.
EDIT: KEN KUTARAGI, make the PS3 into a texturing powerhouse. For the love of all that is holy 54GBs wants to be filled with beautiful large textures!
OHH COMEONE, you know what I mean!Phoenix said:Doesn't matter if you can fit 54GB of textures onto the disk - you can't fit all of that into memory![]()
No way in hell the drive will be writable. I'm still skeptical that they will be able to get the cost of a BRD-ROM drive down fast enough for an early 2006 launch. It could end up being a factor that delays the PS3 launch, now that they have committed to it. Getting a RW BRD drive into a $300 machine ... three years away at a minimum.Suikoguy said:What I wanna know,
Will they be writeable?
Stinkles said:Blu-Ray was cool, until as usual, lawyers started lawyering the technology. Now the Blu-Ray spec excludes component video for HD. That's right, you can't use the most common HDTV connector with your Blu-Ray player.
If some lawyers want me to buy a new fucking HDTV, they can just climb up their own arse and fuck themselves to death with their weak lawyery fists.
Someone like Klee would be a better person to talk about this but, in a nutshell, movie studios can't exert the kind of DRM control they'd like to have over HD/digital broadcast content via a component connection. DVI and HDMI are digital and so offer that possibility.Joe said:whats their beef with component? what input do they want to use?