Play.com are taking pre-orders for the Playstation 3. Seems a little early if you ask me epecially considering they can't guarantee delivery before Christmas. The PS3 will set you back £550 ($1,020) Story at BBC | News
Even though I've always been a sony guy... I'm gonna stick with the Nintendo Wii. $1000 is just too much for a console..
isn't that a bundle though? I have one pre-ordered for £450 from game, number 14 on the list considering how much a BD player will costs on its own, its worth it.
Wow! so you have ordered one already! cool~! Did you order some games with it as well or you wants to try out some demos first?
Yes, I've ordered Metal Gear Solid and Gran Turismo HD from play.com And Pro Evolution Soccer, when it comes out, they are the only games I really want, others I will try the demos first.
If your ordering the PS3 for a Blu-Ray player I'd hold off until it's guaranteed HDMI 1.3 IC's are available, otherwise your not going to be able to take advantage of the new sound formats like Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD. Silicon Image isn't planning on having their IC's out until this fall so the best bet may be to wait until the 2nd generation before buying a PS3, as I'm thinking Sony isn't going to be able to integrate HDMI 1.3 into the PS3 at launch since they can't even get it integrated into their standalone players that will launch in Oct.
You only pay once they ship the item/s. I didn't order because of the BD player, but it would be an advantage to have though. I think it would be an advantage if sony do, as it could help decide the war between HD-DVD and Blue Ray.
Maybe it's because I am not into gaming as much as I was, but £450+ for a games console sounds a little too steap to me hah:
I recommend you to save it till jan or feb. By that time you will come to know all sorts of problems in the PS3(if there is any) and Sony will have them sorted out.
Hey guys, sorry it's been forever since I've been on, stuff came up... Check this out: PlayStation 3 to use HDMI 1.3 :: PS3 News :: PS3Land.com Anyway the $1000 bundle is a pretty junky deal, you just get the 60gig SKU, 1 controller and F1 Racing, WarHawk, and Singstar. Nothing too special there. I'd wait untill after launch, down the road when the price comes down, the 1st party and big deal titles like MGS4 and Killzone 2 launch and the availability is up. Hopefully by then we'll know if BlueRay is edging out in the format war.
Yeah I saw a few articles about the PS3 supposed to be launching with HDMI 1.3 but I'm really skeptical. Sony promised a hell of alot for the Blu-Ray launch and I have to say Sony has a ton of catching up to do if they want to stay in the game with toshiba. I have both an the Toshiba XA1 and the Samsung 1000 BR player and I'm really disappointed with the BR offering. The picture quality is soft compared to HD-DVD, none of the discs are shipping with any of the new sound formats, and the promised 50GB dual layer discs are nowhere to be seen I wouldn't be holding my breath on any of Sony's promises right now. Sony isn't able to get HDMI IC's into their standalone units that are launching in October so I don't see how they are going to be able to have the IC ready for launch less than a month later.
Yeah I here you but Sony is really counting on BR being a big selling point with the PS3. More so than just the standalone players even. They want people to see that the console is more than an expensive game machine and get anyone enticed in buying it anyway they can. They can kill two birds with one stone if enough buy the PS3 right off and by launching with HDMI 1.3 the advantage grows furthur. But you know more about this stuff than I so as far as how reasonable this is I can't really say. As far as the soft image goes that's kind of weird. What kind of TV do you have? If it can't display fully 1080p than you're probably having some scaling issues. What res are HD DVD movies though?
HD-DVD is being displayed as 1080i as the Toshiba's don't support 1080p in their hardware. I'm using 2 different displays a Panasonic 50" DLP and a Sony Qualia 004. The reason for the poor image I'm sure is Sony's decision to stay with Mpeg 2 instead of going with VC-1 or MPEG4 AVC right off the bat. With HD-DVD's taking up almost the entire 30GB dual layer discs with VC-1, BluRay's less efficient MPEG2 along with only 25GB discs and uncompressed PCM audio I think is shooting themselves in the foot. I found the Lions Gate discs looked better but they are devoting the space to a video transfer and only including Dolby Digital EX and DTS-ES tracks for audio instead of one of the newer audio formats.
Wow, sweet TV and projector mate!, did you really spent 27 grand on that projector? I envy you I see what you're saying and HD DVD is on the right track but as you were implying not every BlueRay disk is created equal. Players support MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC, and SMPTE VC-1, but it will still be up to the movie studios to decide which video codec(s) they use for their releases. And this is still the early stage here, the first DVD players obviously didn't have their act totally together at first either.
Didn't spend quite that much. Helps to be in the consumer electronics field and know a few people . My main thing with is Sony hasn't delivered on what they promised so I wouldn't be suprised if HDMI 1.3 doesn't ship with the PS3 launch. Sony just delayed a couple of titles including at least 1 that the pulled the 26th and was scheduled to go on sale yesterday, so hopefuuly they either finally perfected dual layer discs or they got a working VC-1/Mpeg 4 encoder.
