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11-07-2007, 02:06 PM
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#1 | | I like turtles. Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 3,932 Location: Lake County , IL Collection Count: 1,500 or so News Credits: 7 | FYI: Your PS3 plays Blu-Ray discs.
Some of you may have participated in the Toshiba HD DVD player blowout last weekend. It looks like the HD camp moved 90,000 units in 3 days. http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/9...n-one-weekend/
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The problem for the HD DVD camp is that they're really up against the PS3's sales, and even though only 40% of PS3 owners realize that there is a Blu-ray player built in, that's still about 750,000 people in the US.
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Linked within the above article was even more about the HD output. http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/08/09...-hd-abilities/ Quote: |
Reportedly, "only 30-percent of Xbox 360 owners were aware of the HD graphics capabilities of the machine," and while the figure did rise on the Blu-ray-packin' PS3, it still stopped at just 50-percent.
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If you buy a PS3, how the heck can you not know what you're purchasing? | 
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11-07-2007, 02:07 PM
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#2 | | is a freethinker. Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 2,631 | A year ago, when I purchased my Xbox 360, I didn't know it supported 1080p...  | |
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11-07-2007, 02:12 PM
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#3 | | Needs a new title. Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 2,042 Location: Here | I'm pretty sure it didn't a year ago. That was added in on one of the updates.  | |
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11-07-2007, 02:14 PM
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#4 | | is a freethinker. Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 2,631 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Atomsplitter  I'm pretty sure it didn't a year ago. That was added in on one of the updates. | The update had already been made available. I really got reamed out on the Xbox message board... | |
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11-07-2007, 03:22 PM
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#5 | | I ♥ Juri Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 6,005 Location: Dallas Collection Count: 200+ | Quote:
Originally Posted by drippy A year ago, when I purchased my Xbox 360, I didn't know it supported 1080p... | You didn't know it supported that resolution, but you knew it was doing HD output -that is not so bad.
I have never understood how people can not know the difference between SD and HD. The difference is as stark to me as a color program is to black and white.
My wife will continually turn on SD channels that have an analagous HD version. I'll switch to the HD channel and she will ask me what the difference is.
My father has two DLPs and one plasma TV. Direc TV hooked up one of the boxes with HDMI, one with coaxial, and one with RCA jacks. Obviously, he only got the HD signal from HDMI box. However, he saw no difference in the three televisions. He was bragging to me about how good they looked.
I grabbed some component cables and changed one of his boxes.
He was like "oh". Xbox Live :Adam Smasher | |
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11-07-2007, 03:48 PM
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#6 | | smiling a blacktooth grin Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 356 Location: Bucketheadland Collection Count: They outnumber my instruments. | PS3's "sales" constitute less than 10K units a week. Even with their "killer apps" like Ratchet and Clank, Heavenly Sword, and Warhawk.
Anyway I'm not surprised. Where I live, someone thought that a Disney movie was only on Blu-Ray because the commercial says "only on Disney HD Blu-Ray" or something like that. 
I just wish this stupid format debate would end. Does the movie industry not realize how much money they're loosing with consumers?
Toshiba and Sony need to sit down, put aside the differences, and decided a unified format. | |
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11-07-2007, 04:51 PM
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#7 | | Banned Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,252 | Maybe because they just want to play games? I honestly don't know the difference between any of these formats, and I really don't give a shit. You ever look at the line-up of movies on BLU/HD?? They're all movies I wouldn't pay to see in BLACK AND WHITE. | |
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11-07-2007, 04:55 PM
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#8 | | I ♥ Juri Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 6,005 Location: Dallas Collection Count: 200+ | If it's TRULY in HD then they can't fit an entire season onto one disc.
It has a larger storage capacity but there is 10 times the data in an HD video as there is an SD video. Xbox Live :Adam Smasher | |
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11-07-2007, 05:04 PM
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#9 | | I like turtles. Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 3,932 Location: Lake County , IL Collection Count: 1,500 or so News Credits: 7 | Quote:
Originally Posted by bugmenot You ever look at the line-up of movies on BLU/HD?? They're all movies I wouldn't pay to see in BLACK AND WHITE. | Dude, every movie from 2007 is on an HD format. (Transformers, Simpsons Movie, Super Bad, Chuck & Larry, Spider-Man 3, Shrek 3, Fantastic 4, etc) | |
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11-07-2007, 05:09 PM
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#10 | | Banned Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,252 | Quote:
Originally Posted by e3nine Dude, every movie from 2007 is on an HD format. (Transformers, Simpsons Movie, Super Bad, Chuck & Larry, Spider-Man 3, Shrek 3, Fantastic 4, etc) | You just proved my point. Transformers is the only movie I would(and did) pay for. | |
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