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Is The PS2 Your Next DVD Player?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the its-not-all-roses dept.

Si V reader writes "In the Sony PlayStation2 as a DVD Player, SE tells how to get a DVD system when you buy a PS2. They think that the DVD functionality of the PS2 is the one brilliant move Sony made in this otherwise unimpressive launch. In Japan I heard that most of the purchases were because people wanted a cheap full featured DVD." The article discusses the elitism in every industry (but specifically in home audio) and talks about the practical problems (controlling your DVD player with a remote on a wire?) to video/audio quality compared with a more expensive DVD player.

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  1. Hello, join the 21st century by Alan+Shutko · · Score: 5

    There are a lot of _other_ ~$200 DVD players out there. The only differences between them and the PS2 is that they have wireless remotes and you can actually buy one at the moment.

    Sure, they won't play games, but perceiving the PS2 as providing DVD players to the "great unwashed" is incorrect. The great unwashed can already buy cheap DVD players a whole lot easier than the PS2. (I know, because I have one.)

  2. The best reason to by a PS2 by cluge · · Score: 5
    Bought it for 399.00 Sold it for 650 plus shipping on e-bay. Now I'm getting a REALLY good DVD player and surround sound amp.

    I guess your right......it provided me with a great dvd player.

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