Some thoughts on the PS3

[wco81]

Actually instead of the incremental investment to upgrade the specs, they would probably get more return on the incremental investment by financing the development of more exclusive content.

Of course they can't will a game into becoming a blockbuster hit. But funding development of unique IP is more likely to help sales than having a much higher spec. hardware which plays many of the same games as competing consoles but at 1080p with more effects.

 

[Gubbi]

Which means the opposite of crazy.

Crazy like a fox, means it looks crazy, but is actually very cunning.

As cunning as a fox who has just been appointed professor of cunning at Oxford university ?

Cheers

 

[Mythos]

Actually instead of the incremental investment to upgrade the specs, they would probably get more return on the incremental investment by financing the development of more exclusive content.

Of course they can't will a game into becoming a blockbuster hit. But funding development of unique IP is more likely to help sales than having a much higher spec. hardware which plays many of the same games as competing consoles but at 1080p with more effects.

I think to a certain degree they have move more on their first party qaulity titles through SCREWW...where there is a community of sharing to enable better qaulity exclusives.

 

[Brimstone]

Info about HDMI :- http://www.hdmi.org/about/faq.asp

Listed is infomation about it and that it transmits video and audio on ONE Connector & lead a bit like scart

I'm not sure on this but...I'll take a stab at this...


There are two new advanced audio formats Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD. The good news is I'm pretty sure the PS3 will be able to decode either of these advanced codecs. The problem is the S/PDIF audio out doesn't have enough bandwidth to fully output to the maximum quality. So you need the bandwidth of HDMI to fully exploit the fidelity. I remember listenting to the Major Nelson podcast on HD-DVD, and one of the Microsoft guys was proclaiming how HDMI audio experience is totally superior to S/PDIF.

I have no idea how a single HDMI 1.3 is going to route a video single to your display, and a audio signal to your reciever. One cable needs to plug into your HDTV and another needs to plug into your reciever.


Anyway as a side note I hope DTS-HD becomes a common for movie releases. The best audio codec is DTS-HD.

 

[hey69]

well if you have a receiver with hdmi you are ok.
ps3* hdmi *audio/video (receiver) *hdmi*> VIDEOSIGNAL (TV)

 

[patsu]

There are two new advanced audio formats Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD. The good news is I'm pretty sure the PS3 will be able to decode either of these advanced codecs.

According to PSM3 magazine, PS3 will support both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.

 

[Brimstone]

According to PSM3 magazine, PS3 will support both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.

This is extrodinairly important becuase the base spec requierment for Blu-Ray is Dolby Digital and DTS.

The two lossless audio formats Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD are optional.


So even though the lossless audio formats are option part of the specs, the PS3 makes them a defacto supported standard.