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![]() And really... even if it did the same as Laser Disc, I'd have no problem with that. Thousands upon thousands of obscure titles reaching the format over a 10+ year lifespan, not to mention a format dedicated to the Home Theater Enthusiast. I'll take it. But honestly.. the sheer fact that you can buy Blu-rays in Walmart, Fred Meyer, Costco. The fact it even has on the air advertisement. The fact it will play all your standard DVD's, and in reality, even make them look better. And has sub 200$ players just over 2 years after hitting the shelves. For those reasons as well as constantly dropping prices, I see Blu-ray players eventually replacing Upconverting players within the next 2 years. When that happens, it'll become the de facto standard simply because of more features for the same price. Whether software penetration follows suit is anyone's guess. |
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THREAD JACK ALERT Jordan, I am a blu ray fan and love the format but the numbers speak volumes. Taking off isn't exactly what I would call it, the most recent numbers I see are that compared to sales in excess of 3,200,000 units of Dark Knight only 688,000 are blu ray. I wouldn't say that 21.5% represents adoption at a brisk pace. Couple the economy with the increased cost of blu players and discs (compared to DVD) and you will see that the adoption rate is not going to be as fast as VHS to DVD. With still less than 1,000 titles available on blu ray vs 10s of thousands on DVD consumers will still not jump to the new format. Couple that with an average player cost of $300+ and you won't see that huge of a rise. DVD sales are only down 2% over this time last year, far from a huge impact to the market. There is an expectation that blu ray will triple the number of players sold in 2009 to approximately 5.8 million units in North America. I think that blu ray will be the new standard only to be potentially made obsolete by downloading (maybe I am old school but I like to own my movies so this one I have a hard time with). In summary I am not saying blu ray won't be adopted just not as fast as some may have thought after the format war was won. |
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Please do. If i'm wrong i'll send you a fiver
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Noise? Frankly, I can't hear the thing over my HT system, so what do I care? The PS3 is equal to, if not better than the XBox 360 as a gaming platform, when you add in the additional features (BR player, media streamer, internet browsing) there's really no comparison to the two machines. Like already stated, apples to oranges, the PS3 is designed, and continues to be updated as, a multi media machine. The 360 isn't in the same class when it comes to that. And Joe, given your love of Linux, you surely know that the PS3 is designed as a dual boot system and fully supports the installation of Linux on it right, making it a fully functional HTPC in your system rack? ![]() ![]() |
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Really the only reason I bought the PS3 was to play games Vic, and in that department they are lacking. There are more games for X360, better online gaming experience, more DLC, their arcade is better, for gamers its the better choice of the two.
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Interesting read this morning on Yahoo! Games
http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/...on-08-/1276642 Seems the Wii is whooping ass and the 360 is far out pacing the PS3. ![]()
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Wii is fun, but honestly for the more hardcore/experienced gamer it, in my opinion, will leave you wanting more. I like playing it with friends in a group, which maybe is the niche that it fills.... but besides super mario galaxy, the games compared to the 360 and ps3 just fall short for me.
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yeah, i have the green halo edition one, its not failed me in over the year that i've had it!!
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Thread update for all of you!!!
Thanks for all the replies, they were informative, I thought about the ps3 and couldnt pull the trigger on it because of the BR feature. I just cant get into that debate about how much better it is... What it came down to was having a 360 would be less transition from my orig x box plus I can play some of my old school games with it!! I hope I made the right decision cause I pulled the trigger on a 360 today!! |
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Super Mario Galaxy Wario Land Smash Bros Mario Kart Okami No More Heroes Zack and Wiki Metroid Prime 3 Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition Paper Mario LoZ Twilight Princess MM9 Strong Bad series Mushroom Men Boom Blox ...to name a few. And with Mad World and No More Heroes 2 on the horizon there is actually some exciting stuff on the horizon.
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