"jamesgangnc" wrote in message
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Plus the whole bluray verses hd thing is sort of like the beta verse vhs.
As I remember beta, even though the superior format, lost out to vhs. And
beta was another one of sony's ideas. I'm waiting for signs of a victor
in this war before buying a high res dvd player. I think a lot of people
are as well and that's why the acceptance has been slow.

"JimH" wrote in message
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"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"Steve" wrote in message
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:24:25 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:


If you want a BluRay player, I'm curious why someone would buy a
BluRay player other than a PS3 for $399? The PS3 works great as a
BluRay player. It's not slow, doesn't cut out, doesn't have *any* of
the problems you mentioned above and uses a very fast microprocessor.
By far, the very fastest available in any home computer actually.

And as a bonus, besides watching BluRay discs, you can play PS2 or PS3
games and (if you plug in a USB keyboard and mouse) even use it as a
general purpose computer running Linux. It's the best deal going in
home entertainment if you ask me.

Steve

I didn't know PS3 played Blu-Ray until after I had purchased the disk
players, mentioned the issues to my daughter and she informed me about
PS3 which she has for her two boys. I have no interest in video games,
so it didn't occur to me to even check them out. Except .... due to
the discussion, she let me borrow their "Wii" system. What a blast!
You hold a controller in your hand and physically go through the motions
of bowling or swinging a baseball bat, golf club, tennis racket, etc.
I got a kick out of it.

Back to Blue-Ray. Does the Playstation 3 also play regular DVDs and
CDs?

Yes.


Also, my daughter said it had operational issues similar to those I've
experienced with the Sharp and Sony players when playing a Blu-Ray disk.
I know the Blu-Ray disks hold a huge amount of data compared to regular
DVD. I wonder if finding, reading and displaying the data is the reason
for it's slow motionness.

Another expensive lesson learned, although once they are playing, the
picture quality is outstanding.

Eisboch


The 80gb PS3 is being phased out, leaving only the 40gb unit. If you
are planning to buy and 80gb you better do it soon.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,14...s/article.html




Beta lost out because Sony wanted to control the industry and demanded too
much for use of the patents.