Comments on: Fox is So Excited About the PS3, The X-Men are Getting Pre-mature Releasing.

By: Ash1138

Ash1138 — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:15:42 +0000

You need to come over to my house then. HD isn’t just a noticable improvement, it’s a remarkable one. Some programs almost look as if you are looking out a window. You sound as if you are describing non-HD content on an HD monitor because it’s true, analog content often does look worse on an HDTV.

By: RamenJunkie

RamenJunkie — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:31:00 +0000

RE: HD Video

I do indeed not own an HD TV however I have had some experience with HD video and signal at work. I work for a television station and we simulcast HD, SD, and Analog signals. Even side by side I fail to see a signifigant improvement in video quality other than the HD is occasionally in Letterbox format during Prime. There are times when the HD actually looks worse because instead of looking slightly fuzzy when distorted it looks slightly pixilated.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 22:33:08 +0000

Inevitablely i will eventually buy a ps3 but not for blue-ray. I mean yes it will have bd but i dont care for that. Also if i was fox i would be slightly worried that blueray is probably going to fail. With 6 million 360 and the Hd-dvd add on that would seem alot more profitable than the 400,000 ps3 that are coming out.

did that make sence

By: Mdean

Mdean — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:33:26 +0000

Well it makes since. I’m sure a huge percent of ps3 buyers will want to buy a Blu-Ray disc just to try it out.

By: Dre

Dre — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:41:56 +0000

that lameass move is so typical of Fony. not suprised at all. i hope that both blu-ray & even HD dvd die a similar death like Fony’s mini-disc & the DCC cassette. i remember they tried 3 times during the 90s to push that crap on the public. didnt work as everybody was still just upgrading their cassettes & lps to regular cd. the same can be said now of the majority embracing dvd from video. only ones who seem to be biting are the tech fanboys & those who suffer from i-wanna-be-first-on-my-block syndrome.

By: Aaron.Z

Aaron.Z — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:15:16 +0000

Ash1138 the price for the ps3 is $549 cdn and $659 cnd and the xbox is $399 cnd and $499 cnd and the addon is $199 cnd so with the xbox no u r not getting a better deal,
but ya you r right with sony sticking you with a blu-ray player but u r almost getting it for free maybe 50 to a 10o dollars but i really think the ps3 woulda cost close to the same anyway, could be wrong on that tho

By: Ash1138

Ash1138 — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:04:01 +0000

RamenJunkie: You speak like someone who doesn’t yet own an HDTV or if so a small one. I don’t know about you, but I and just about everyone I know bought DVDs because of quality not chapter skipping. To be honest the main reason I didn’t by VHS was you could almost never get movies in widescreen (until after DVD came out) and the picture quality was noticably poor on large screens. DVD fixed both those issues.

I have a 55″ HDTV and I can’t watch VHS on it; it looks so terrible. Even DVD which you claim is good enough is not. That’s why I had to buy an upconverting player. Once you watch HDTV, it’s really hard to go back. Even with a top of the line upconverting DVD player, a movie will come on HBO-HD now and then that I own already and I’ll sit watching it, drooling. Believe me, I’d MUCH rather be buying movies on HD-DVD or BluRay, but I’m not about to support this crappy attempt at gouging consumers. When one format emerges victorious and prices come down to reason I’ll jump on board.

Alex: You do realize that you don’t have to buy that add-on for the XBox don’t you? Even at $100 you are still paying $200 less than a PS3. I don’t understand how that’s a rip-off. Especially since you can buy any wireless adapter you want. Me? I already own a wireless bridge so when I get a 360 I don’t have to buy one. Sony is charging you regardless whether you want it or not. That’s the definition of rip-off.

By: Aaron.Z

Aaron.Z — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:45:07 +0000

Ya no one uses there ps2’s or x-box for there primary dvd player any more but when the ps2 came out in 2000 almost all the people i knew including me used it for a dvd player,
so i think it will be much of the same for the ps3’s blu-ray player, but do i think people are going to go out and by a $1000 dollar blu-ray player? no, but if the ps3 sells as many units as the ps2 (i think around 100 million) there will be many chances for people to buy the movies and take the hit for the high prices, we all know that if blu rays sell well the movies will cost the same as dvd’s cost now, and now with the everything having to be broadcasted in hd in a few years a lot more people will have hi def tv’s and will want hi def programing including the movies they buy, And the extra storage blu-rays have will also be move conviant for other uses

By: Seymour D. Birthfield Jr

Seymour D. Birthfield Jr — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:45:49 +0000

I am definitely getting a PS3 (WHEN IT DROPS INTO MY PRICE RANGE), but I hope they loose some of their market share to the competition. If you ask me they’ve gotten really big-headed.

By: hi

hi — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:38:03 +0000

Tarmac, so the PS3 is not a PS2 with better graphics and the same games we have played for ten years. At least Nintendo brings in something new(again).