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PS2 Getting DVD Upgrade & Progressive Video?
blues5150 writes "ZDNET is reporting that Sony is going to be upgrading the PlayStation 2. According to the article "The new design will support most recordable DVD media, including DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW. The new PS2 will also support "progressive scan", a playback method used by some TV sets for clearer images, and it will come with a built-in infrared receiver for using a remote control to control DVD playback." The bad part of all of this is that they don't have dates for availability in North America or Europe."
why upgrade the ps2 when the ps3 is coming out this year ?
Also I hope Sony are going to make this a PS2 - Special Edition, i.e. upgrade the CPU/graphics as well and as such they give it the ability to play new special games that won't work on the original PS2.
Yeah... It's going to be called "PS3"
If you bought your wife a PS/2 for Christmas this year, I'd bet you're STILL sleeping on the couch.
Seriously. Even the most
advanced PS/2 Models only had a Pentium-60 chip.
Next time, don't be such a cheapskate. At least get one of those Lintendo systems from Walmart....
~NBVB
by this year they meant this decade.
whooooa, wait a second... on one hand, sony is a major critic of recording media, citing in their case against Napster (along with the RIAA) that CD/R sales are up but CDs are down. The music industry, which Sony is a major player in, has been trying to devolop CDs that won't work in a PC, and CD players that won't read CD/Rs.
Then on the other hand, now they're implementing DVD drives that can read actually DVD/Rs. Jesus, next thing you know, Sony might start devoloping devices that help you listen to mp3's...
Seriously, does anyone else see the irony?
"In a Democracy, people get the kind of government they deserve." -Winston Churchill
I bought a PS2 tp play games AND watch movies.
So did my friend.
I want my game consoles to play games
Go buy a GameCube then.
I want my console to play games, play games from the previous console, play movies, play music, and some day, make me breakfast (playstation 6 or something). I want the bang for my buck.
I bought a PS2, now I don't need to buy a DVD that would eat away precious living-room real estate and precious bank account money.
Oh, and the cool thing about the PS2 is that since I allready had an original playstation, for wich my ex had given me an analogue controller, I don't need to buy an extra controller to play 2 player games! Hurrah for backwards compatibility! : )
I loves my PS2! I looooooooves it!
You can't take the sky from me...
You could always use your remote as a controller though.
Either you have that backwards, or I just found the worst way to play Gran Turismo.