Awwww crap. Price for PS3?

/me agrees.

*edit*

/me reads Halberto\'s statement again... /me shakes head.

vertically or horizontally?

Heh that cracked me up. Who asks "are you shaking your head vertically?"
 
For the record: head shaking = no, head nodding = yes.
 
-Dan

Heh that cracked me up. Who asks "are you shaking your head vertically?"
 
For the record: head shaking = no, head nodding = yes.
 
-Dan

What he said.

-FatalXception.

What is so stupid? Do you have a different opinion or is it that I think the PS2 is almost dead?

that you outright fail to acknowledge the abundance of \'original games\'

did you even own a PS2?

Plus, without checking, I\'d be surprised if PS2 wasn\'t still the top selling console in Japan, and possibly in America and other countries where Microsoft can\'t produce systems quick enough to hold a candle to the aging console.
 
-Dan

[videoholic]

Disagree with you videoholic.

Sony have said it themselves that their studios won\'t set the down-resolution flag via analog connection for their blu ray movies.  The flag is optional instead of manditory, so it\'s up to other studios to decide if they want to implement down-rezz flag for their movies.  Sony at the moment, have no plan to do so.  So, for HDTV owners that doesn\'t have a digital video connection, rest assure as you still can get all the 1920 x 1080i resolution or 1280 x 720p resolution via component video cable.

Also, since you say your hdtv have DVI, you shouldn\'t need to worry either.  HDMI and DVI are backward compatible and vice versa.  As long as your DVI is HDCP, then you should have no problems using the HDMI connection on the blu ray player, or in this case the PS3.

Just get a cable with HDMI on one end and DVI on the other end, or DVI to HDMI adapter and you should be fine.

I\'ve read numerous articles stating Hollywood Blue Ray discs will not be playable on any tvs without an HDMI connector because of copy protection.  I just did a search for some articles and it does look like Sony is going to support full resolution to a DVI input.  THat\'s pretty cool.  But are other studios going to folow suit?  Kinda doubt it.

[Living-In-Clip]

Now that the PS2 is almost dead I feel that overall, it wasn\'t as cool as the PSX.

I blame lack of original games.

More like it wasn\'t as cool due to the fact that the whole 3D craze was over.

[Paul2]

I\'ve read numerous articles stating Hollywood Blue Ray discs will not be playable on any tvs without an HDMI connector because of copy protection.  I just did a search for some articles and it does look like Sony is going to support full resolution to a DVI input.  THat\'s pretty cool.  But are other studios going to folow suit?  Kinda doubt it.

You got the information somewhat wrong though.

If you have an HDTV with either a DVI or HDMI that have HDCP, then any Blu Ray movies you are watching will work on those connections.

Unless you are one of those very early generation HDTV owner that doesn\'t have any Digital Video connection with HDCP like DVI-HDCP or HDMI-HDCP, then you won\'t get any video signal from blu ray movies with copy protection via the digital connection.

And on the analog connection like component video, you still can watch the movies.  Depending on the movies and on the studios, some studios might be strict and implement the down-resolution flag on the analog video connection.  Meaning, if you hook up your blu Ray player via component video connection, and if the disc is encoded with the down-res flag, then the video will be down rez from 1920 x 1080i/p to 960 x 540p.  Again, this used to be mandatory, but recently, Sony become more open mind about it and decides not to implement the down-res flags for analog connection for their Blu Ray Movies and make it optional.

[videoholic]

You are saying what I already told you I have read in the earlier post.

I\'m an early adopter.

My DVI does not have copy protection.

I know about the down rez.  Why buy a 1000 player to get no rez gain?

This is not much of an issue for me since I will be getting a front projection unit.

[Paul2]

oh, i see.  I thought your DVI have HDCP.  I didn\'t know it doesn\'t have it.

[Evi]

Now that the PS2 is almost dead I feel that overall, it wasn\'t as cool as the PSX.

I blame lack of original games.

PS2 has tons of original titles thats for sure. I wouldnt say it lacked original titles though.

 Its just that PSX had more original franchises, and that was mainly because it shifted to the 3D era which brought much more possibilities.

[Living-In-Clip]

You guy\'s are overlooking the main thing.

The PSX was popular because of..

3D craze.

No real competition (in America).

Did everyone forget when Sony refused to allow any 2D games on the PSX? I do. Sony knew that if they just kept pumpin\' out 3D games, people would flock to it and they did and eventually, Sony lifted the ban on 2D games.. The PS2 can\'t live up to that, as it didn\'t herald in a new way of gaming like 3D did.

[Paul2]

yeah, the jump from 8 bits to 16 bits era were mostly better graphics, and sound.  But they are still 2-D, which is still big for difference.

But when the jump from 16 bits to 32 bits ear, this is where the leap is very big, because of 3-D gaming world and how much different and amazing 3-D gaming can be since it\'s the first.

Compare FFVI and FFVII and one can see how much different the game look between the two.  Beside a graphic and sound leap between the two, one is 2-D sprite base with limited animation, and the other is 3-D polygonal world base with a lot more animation and how great the camera zoom, rotate on those fight scenes can look and they are very well done.

I didn\'t know Sony refuse to allows any 2-D as there were some 2-D titles for the psone.  Like Mega Man X4, Castlevania:SOTN.