Monday, March 3rd 2008
Two New PS3 Bundles On The Way to Europe
In addition to the Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 released in the US and Canada, Sony has two new PS3 bundles being readied for the European market. These include a special Gran Turismo 5 Prologue version which will launch alongside the game in the Spring. The pack includes the game, 40GB console and one Sixaxis controller. The second bundle is a Movie Pack, with a 40GB console, single controller and three Blu-ray movies replacing the usual game: Spiderman 3, 300 and Casino Royale. Both bundles are expected to come in at the current price points.
Source:
Gizmodo UK
35 Comments on Two New PS3 Bundles On The Way to Europe
I personally think DD is way overrated, I think it will only control the rental market. The CD is far from dead.
In-game 1080p isn't as sharp as 420p digital tv though...
I used component cables to see if HD really was better, but there is just no difference.
So, Full HD game image quality ( 1080p game on PS3 ) still can't compete with the image quality from 420p digital tv...
Probably doesn't make sense, I am just saying that only the next HD generation ( higher then 1080p ) will really show good difference...
Component can only output 420p at the highest.
You need HDMI cables man.
Thats why you dont see a difference bc you HD TV is being down converted to 420p :)
So many people actually beleave that HDMI is required for 1080p, that is not the case.
Other beleave that component can only go to 1080i, wich is also not true.
You can get 1080p with component cables. I connected my HD-Digital-TV device with component and used 1080p input setting and my other HD-TV is connected to my 360, with component and 1080p works 100%...
I remember reading a complete article about different signal and conection types, and another one comparing specifically HDMI Vs. component, and what you say it's just not true. Jelle Mees is right, both are of the same quality. Indeed they trade blows, meaning that component can actually have better IQ than HDMI depending on the situation.
Maybe you are making the same mistake as bruins004, and you are confusing composite (one rca) with component (3 rca).
Anyway isn't standard definition video 480p (NTSC) or 576p (PAL, SECAM)? I've never heard of 420p... :confused:
EDIT: I've searched a little bit more and it is either 480 or 576. BTW this is a really interesting thing in this topic, since where SD may be low in the US (NTSC, 480p, 30fps), on PAL (or SECAM) countries (576p, 25fps) could be seen as just of enough quality. Indeed for me, accustomed to 576 lines, 480 doesn't look good at all. Just for the record, there's almost as much of a relative change between 480 vs. 576 than 576 vs. 720.
However, as I said, I guess it depends on your POV. American standards are different than the EU obviously.
As a final thought, NTSC guys, no wonder why are you willing to move to high definition so desperately... :roll:
I will try to find the articles, they were very technical, so I could only understand the conclusions and little more else, but they were very clear and strigth forward. They weren't biased either as they were proffesionals in that matter, but only customers in the end talking in a blog or a wiki page, meaning that they had nothing to do with the standards. It's just like Spielberg and Coppola discusing which camera is better.
For me both look the same way, and I couldn't tell the difference. But I could tell the difference between a BR played on a good standalone player and the same one played on the PS3, with or without HDMI.
Anyway I can't say you are wrong when you talk about newer sets, because nowadays they always use HDMI in the places where I used to compare. The marketing machine really works... At the same time, I can say that ultimatelly the IQ of the HDTV has increased, so I can compare IQ nowadays (as I said always with HDMI) and a year back and say that today is better. Wether it is because of HDMI or not, it's out of my knowledge. But I will always believe professional considerations, than particular opinions, and the professional ones that I am talking about, talked about bandwidth, color representation, noise, signal aliasing and much, much more. That is the physical properties of the medium and not look at a specific set and say: "Hmm, I think this looks better". What does that mean for me? It might be that today's TVs look better with HDMI, but if that's the case, it's because they didn't bother to make a good implementation of the component output, and not because the component is worse. It's what happens when there's so much unwarranted hype for HDMI.
I will try to find that article, but I don't think I will find it since it didn't appear on google and I reached there after lots of link clicking from forum to forum.