[quote]Professor X wrote:
LightsOutLuthor wrote:
MaximusB wrote:
I think DVD will be the foundation format for a long time, eventually with more time even that will become useless. Keeping up with the times can be pricey. Fuck it, they cant put someone from VISA in the coffin with you.
Kinda unrelated here - my nerd project that I’m considering is the whole ‘media center’ computer at home. Rip all the DVDs to Hard drives and that way I can get rid of the disks, access 'em easier, and just unify the whole mess.
Anyone do that?
You would need an incredible amount of memory for that to work. I have compressed several movies into MP4 format and even that takes up a hell of a lot of space.[/quote]
True, you would also lose the portability of bring movies with you on trips which I like to do sometimes. Sony came out with a new kind of computer which is a desktop, HDTV, Blu Ray player all wrapped into one unit.
But the monitor is more like a 22" HD TV and is wall mountable. Its a new idea that I am still warming up to, but not in the cards for me right now. I think that this is where technology is going, where there are no more individual elctronics but numerous gadgets rolled into one.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Professor X wrote:
LightsOutLuthor wrote:
MaximusB wrote:
I think DVD will be the foundation format for a long time, eventually with more time even that will become useless. Keeping up with the times can be pricey. Fuck it, they cant put someone from VISA in the coffin with you.
Kinda unrelated here - my nerd project that I’m considering is the whole ‘media center’ computer at home. Rip all the DVDs to Hard drives and that way I can get rid of the disks, access 'em easier, and just unify the whole mess.
Anyone do that?
You would need an incredible amount of memory for that to work. I have compressed several movies into MP4 format and even that takes up a hell of a lot of space.
True, you would also lose the portability of bring movies with you on trips which I like to do sometimes. Sony came out with a new kind of computer which is a desktop, HDTV, Blu Ray player all wrapped into one unit. But the monitor is more like a 22" HD TV and is wall mountable.
Its a new idea that I am still warming up to, but not in the cards for me right now. I think that this is where technology is going, where there are no more individual elctronics but numerous gadgets rolled into one.[/quote]
I agree this is where it’s going, but there are too many issues with space and bandwidth for this to happen anytime soon. You’d need terabytes of storage space to store your entire media library on it, especially if it’s HD content. Then, you’d want the device to be small enough that you could easily unhook it from your setup and take it with you.
I do have a few friends that have things like AppleTV and Media Center PCs. While they are cool, it’s just isn’t there yet.
I’ve watched blu ray movies on a mid range priced blu ray player and on a PS3. I didn’t notice a difference. I think that the TV is a big factor on how good the picture will look. I noticed a difference watching a blu ray on a newer Aquos and my older Sony HD (Both around the same size).
Games that are out for 360 and PS3 look better on the 360 for whatever reason. There are videos online showing the differences. They are very small differences though and are not something I would take into consideration when choosing between the two. They’re both solid investments except for the 25% of 360’s that experience hardware failure (red rings of death).
The PS3 is an excellent Blu-Ray player, as it can download new firmware to stay at the cutting edge of the software revisions.
Blu-Ray is fucking awesome. As a matter of fact, I’ve had my PS3 for about 4 months now and I only just last week played a game on it - the rest has been Blu-Ray.
Xbox is rumoured to be going the route of downloading your media & games, so I think Bluray is kind of hit and miss - at least for now as mentioned before - people are still using DVDs.
If we can eventually just download movies, discs will become obsolete altogether.
Overall I think the Xbox is better buy as it has more games than the PS3 and the online play is excellent. 2 main gripes I have are that you need to buy a separate wireless adapter (simple to setup - took me 5-10minutes and I bought a 2nd hand one from Amazon for $60) and that you cannot copy movies or games to the hard drive. You can however buy a large external self-powered hard drive and use that to store movies/music.
You DO NOT need a remote for watching movies, the controller works just fine. Also, if you have wireless you can stream movies and music from your pc through the xbox onto tv - very smooth and a nice feature.
My xbox has yet to crash on me and I’ve had it 3-4 months now.
[quote]rsg wrote:
Xbox is rumoured to be going the route of downloading your media & games, so I think Bluray is kind of hit and miss - at least for now as mentioned before - people are still using DVDs.
If we can eventually just download movies, discs will become obsolete altogether.[/quote]
I think this is where it’s eventually going too. Everything will be downloaded content. You won’t even buy discs anymore. They just need to work out the bandwidth and storage. You’ll run out of space pretty fast even if you have the 120GB HD.
[quote]Overall I think the Xbox is better buy as it has more games than the PS3 and the online play is excellent.
2 main gripes I have are that you need to buy a separate wireless adapter (simple to setup - took me 5-10minutes and I bought a 2nd hand one from Amazon for $60) and that you cannot copy movies or games to the hard drive. You can however buy a large external self-powered hard drive and use that to store movies/music.[/quote]
A few months ago I would have agreed with you on this, but I think they are pretty even now as far as games. At least games I’m interested in playing.
The XBOX does have better online content and gaming though, by far. I do think it’s pretty ridiculous that the 360 doesn’t have built in wireless, when the PS3 does. Although I use a wired connection for both, so this isn’t as big of an issue for me.
Plus, the 360 doesn’t handle HD-DVD or Blu-Ray out of the box like PS3 does with Blu-Ray. You still have to buy a separate add-on drive for the 360 for the HD-DVD and they still don’t have a Blu-Ray add-on do they?
You also do not need a remote for watching movies with the PS3 either. You can just use the regular controller. Although, Sony sells a separate remote. I bought a remote by Nyko (only $13) that uses a dongle (hehe…dongle) in one of the PS3s USB slots. I was then able to program my Harmony remote to use the dongle, so I have one remote controlling all my devices.
Same here. I bought an Elite almost a year ago and I don’t recall it ever crashing on me. I hate how loud it is though.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
That was another thing I thought about. When I read how Blu Ray upgrades standard DVDs, I wondered by how much. I know they arent as good as Blu Ray quality, but is there a noticeable difference with the upgraded picture?[/quote]
Yes and on some movies it is to the point that they look cheap.
[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Plus, the 360 doesn’t handle HD-DVD or Blu-Ray out of the box like PS3 does with Blu-Ray. You still have to buy a separate add-on drive for the 360 for the HD-DVD and they still don’t have a Blu-Ray add-on do they?
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Ok, 3rd grip - I never knew the drive in the 360 wasn’t an HD-DVD drive. But hey, I’d probably never use it anyway.
As for not having a Blu-ray player, it’s all rumours whether they will or not release an addon, but as I said before - I don’t see the point.
I had my xbox for a year before I got the rings. I’m waiting for it to be returned. Thank goodness I have a spare lol. They fix it for free though so I guess it’s not the worst thing in the world. Just a silly inconvenience
[quote]rsg wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Plus, the 360 doesn’t handle HD-DVD or Blu-Ray out of the box like PS3 does with Blu-Ray. You still have to buy a separate add-on drive for the 360 for the HD-DVD and they still don’t have a Blu-Ray add-on do they?
Ok, 3rd grip - I never knew the drive in the 360 wasn’t an HD-DVD drive. But hey, I’d probably never use it anyway.
As for not having a Blu-ray player, it’s all rumours whether they will or not release an addon, but as I said before - I don’t see the point.
Blu-ray player aside - which do you prefer?
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Taking the Blu-Ray out of the picture, then I think I’d still have to go with the 360. I’ve played more games on the 360 to date. A year from now, I think I might have a different answer, as there are more games coming out for the PS3 that I want to get and I think the PS3 graphics have caught up to the 360.
Although, I like the design of the PS3 more and the fact that it’s quieter. I initially bought my PS3 to be my primary DVD and Blu-Ray player and I haven’t been disappointed at all.
Vader covered the bases well but some of this is prob worth repeating anyway:
The PS3 has always been considered the best Blu-ray disc player on the market because its online capability provides access to the latest firmware updates. Many first-generation dedicated BD players lacked this feature despite a signficantly higher ticket price.
The PS3’s BD player is also a nice upconverter for your regular DVDs. To be fair, any HD-DVD player also upconverts very well. I originally assumed all that “upconvert” talk was mostly sales fluff, but it becomes obvious on larger screens especially.
All HDMI cables are created equal. Whether you choose to spend $79.99 at your local electronics chain or $10 online is up to you.
[quote]CrewPierce wrote:
Professor X wrote:
CrewPierce wrote:
Professor X wrote:
I’m sold, but do I need to worry about the 80GB version of the PS3? What’s the difference?
I just looked it up and it the only difference between the 40 and 80GB is the storage space. The 80GB is coming out in Sep of this year.
Only the 20 and 60GB versions can play PS2 games if that matters to you. Personally, I could care less if it played PS2 games as the graphics suck compared to the new ones.
BTW,
I would RENT not buy the following games:
Call of Duty 4
Assassins Creed
DO NOT EVEN RENT:
Borne
Tine Shift and GTA4 are both solid games.
When you say storage space, what is it I am storing? They don’t use memory cards?
If that is the case, it sounds like the 80GB would be most useful for hardcore gamers who play all day everyday. That’s not me. I usually only play on weekends.
Well it seems like every stupid game I buy has a new package I need to download so I assume that’s what’s going on the storage space. Every game also uses the auto save so you are correct in that you use the space to save your game progress. I only play on the weekends as well so the 40GB is more than enough space for me.
Even a brand new game like Call od Duty 4 only needs 120MG worth of space so I’ll be set with the 40GB. I mean if you want to wait I believe Sony said that the 80GB will be priced the same as the 40 when it arrives so it would be a better buy.
Haha I just didn’t want to wait any longer. I waited until that whole Blue Ray verse HD DVD was settled first to buy so good enough in my book.[/quote]
I would buy call of duty lol and gta but your right bourne sucked my balls
[quote]crod266 wrote:
How can anyone on this site say xbox is better its not even close and im talking gaming not watching blu ray[/quote]
Personal preference.
On the 360, I prefer the controller shape, the online play is great and currently the selection of games is better as far as I’m concerned. They are evenly matched overall and I think you can’t go wrong with either of them.
Side question, with the PS3, can you can you use it as a media player, or copy movies/music to it? Does it have a stream feature like the 360?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
LightsOutLuthor wrote:
MaximusB wrote:
I think DVD will be the foundation format for a long time, eventually with more time even that will become useless. Keeping up with the times can be pricey. Fuck it, they cant put someone from VISA in the coffin with you.
Kinda unrelated here - my nerd project that I’m considering is the whole ‘media center’ computer at home. Rip all the DVDs to Hard drives and that way I can get rid of the disks, access 'em easier, and just unify the whole mess.
Anyone do that?
You would need an incredible amount of memory for that to work. I have compressed several movies into MP4 format and even that takes up a hell of a lot of space.[/quote]
You probably should use more compression. You’d sacrifice some quality but save more in terms of storage space. And I don’t know what your finances are, but you can get 1 TB drives for under $200 so that shouldn’t be a problem.
I’m still not sold on this whole Blu-Ray crap. Unless they make it more economical, I’m not seeing a whole lot more benefit over DVD. And I’m kinda ticked that the move to Blu-Ray wasn’t wholly a consumer decision, but I guess it never really is.
[quote]rsg wrote:
crod266 wrote:
How can anyone on this site say xbox is better its not even close and im talking gaming not watching blu ray
Personal preference.
On the 360, I prefer the controller shape, the online play is great and currently the selection of games is better as far as I’m concerned. They are evenly matched overall and I think you can’t go wrong with either of them.
Side question, with the PS3, can you can you use it as a media player, or copy movies/music to it? Does it have a stream feature like the 360?[/quote]
acually im not really sure lol i can check but i never tried
Side question, with the PS3, can you can you use it as a media player, or copy movies/music to it? Does it have a stream feature like the 360?[/quote]
You can access media files from a Media Server with it. You have to enable it through Windows Media Player first and make sure you have all of your files in a shared folder.
Or you can easily swap out the HDD with a larger one. Most Notebook drives are compatible with it and simple to install. I plan on upgrading to a 200 gig drive soon.
If you have a PSP, you can link that up to your Playstation 3, either directly or over the internet via WiFi. It has alot of cool features.
But XBOX Live is amazing. The community they created, the marketplace, the interaction and update system…all very slick. I don’t think PS3 has anything close.
I heard it is easier to make games for 360 because it is closest to a computer (PC) architecture. There are just a ton more games for it, like twice as many I think.
I like the 360 controller way more than the PS3 controller. I’ll pick up a 360 when they shrink the GPU a bit further to do better with heat dissipation. I know they already shrunk the CPU die, but GPU makes a ton of heat.
Graphics are about the same between the two consoles.