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    Sony's Blu Ray

    in Gossip Café [/offtopic]

    Posted · Edited by Hexter

    No, DVD players were around $500 when they hit the consumer market, and within 2 years fell below $300. The same is slated for HD-DVD players, which have been said to hit shelves near the $500 mark.

    How do you get anyone with a brain to spend a GRAND on something to watch movies on, when DVD (By consumer standards) is only 8 years old?

     

    I coundn't say better myself, also the Blu-ray disc itself well not be hybrid compatible between Blu-Ray and Normal DVD Player, but HD-DVD disc (some of them) itself will hybrid between HD-DVD and Normal DVD Players.

     

    IMO Blu-ray kind of violates comsumers rights.

    Sony's Blu Ray

    in Gossip Café [/offtopic]

    Posted · Edited by Hexter

    1st player......roughly $1k. ROOFLES TO THE MAX! Have fun stupid yuppies with more money than brains, and good luck to Sony getting enough of them buying it to bring the price down for the average joe inside of 10 years.

     

    Way too expensive, I would go with the HD-DVD it cheaper. *Game companies would prefer cheaper solutions.

     

    I heard that the Blu-Ray player can't even play a CD.

    PS3 will be multi-region for games

    in Gossip Café [/offtopic]

    Posted · Edited by Hexter

    GDC 2006: Region-free PS3

    Prepare for the shock of shockers - every PS3 game from the world can be yours!

    by Nix

     

    March 22, 2006 - In a QA session following the platform keynote address at GDC 2006 this morning, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios President Phil Harrison confirmed what was heavily demanded for import gamers all over the world and yet previously thought unthinkable for a major corporation: the PS3 will be region-free for gaming.

     

    The move was not unexpected, as SCE had previously mentioned considering the possibility of opening up the region structure for PS3 games recently (the newly-released PSP system has but does not use a region code system for games, but that's more a standard for portable games than a new development for region-free gaming.) The system is, amongst other things, hoped to help combat piracy - many import fans "chip" their consoles with region-free mod chips to play import games, and while that desire has some legitimacy, it also opens the doors for pirates to release illegal copies of games. (Funnily enough, it's most often easier to run illegal games on a console than it is to run legit games from other countries due to the way most mod chips work, leading to a slippery slope for importers hoping to stay legit but finding the road difficult to maneuver.) Region-free gaming also allows game publishers to release games across the globe simultaneously, either through e-distribution or on disc. The capacity of Blu-Ray had previously been mentioned to allow for multiple languages of a game to be encoded onto the same massive-capacity disc.

     

    The one caveat of this new region-free structure is that games made for specific regions' electrical and TV standards may have problems on your TV set. A PAL PS3 game, for instance, will have difficulty running on an NTSC TV, unless the developers have thought ahead and planned for that issue. It is currently unknown how the PS3 will cope with this problem (whether there will be a warning when you run an import about possible TV incompatibility, or if possibly there might be a no-play screen for incompatible games depending on your PS3's TV settings.) Luckily, modern HDTV standards go a long way towards making that problem moot. Also, games made in other countries will naturally only have the text and dialog it is programmed with, so don't put your pre-orders down so fast on all of those Japanese RPGs and Dragon Ball if you don't know a lick of kanji, because English will only be in if the developers have planned for it. (It's unknown if there will be any type of "patching" system for multi-language releases, although that might be possible on supported games post-release now that the PS3 is carrying its massive HDD and flash memory support.)

     

    We'll have more details on how this impacts publishers and importers as soon as we know more about SCE's plans for region-free PS3 gaming.

     

    http://ps3.ign.com/articles/697/697656p1.html

     

    To bad it won't be for DVD movies, blame that one on MPAA it can be cracked anyway, anyhow :P

     

    Least it can play Import games from the out of the box without a mod chip.

    Intel Regains the Performance Crown with Conroe

    in Gossip Café [/offtopic]

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    As for Tom's Hardware.......F**K Tom's Hardware. Those guys are stunned. If theres a biased site out there, that is it. I think they wear kneedpads and sit under the desks of execs at AMD and NvIdia. Not to mention their technical reviews are laughable at best, considering alot of their reviews consist of garbage they read off published hardware papers, and we all know what you see on paper.....means DICK.

     

    I throught something was dodgy about them also, I think they used the bug crap as an excuse.

    What do you use besides WinAmp?

    in Nerd's Chatter [/nerds]

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    I used winamp but I have tried foobar but I don't like the way random function works.

     

    I prefer winamp even through it take more memory so what I got 1GB of ram, the feature on winamp is all I need really also, I tried out Windows Media Player 10 I didn't seem to like it as much as the Classic. (WMP10 came as standard with my os; winxp x64)

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