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Sony Pushes Back Release For Blu-Ray Players
Sony has announced that their first model of Blu-Ray player will release in August, not later this month as originally announced. The BDP-SP1, retailing for $1000, will now ship on or about August 15th. Bad news for fans of the new format, and even worse news for the PS3. Since Sony's lackluster E3 showing, a string of bad news has seemed to conspire against the company's next-gen console. From the Gamers with Jobs article: "With the PS3's high-end model coming it at a whopping $400.00 less than a stand-alone Blu-Ray player, Sony needs to release these players as soon as possible. If they wait too long, the PS3 will begin looming on the horizon, causing even devout early adopters to question the intelligence of buying a stand-alone Blu-Ray unit. Sony also needs the largest possible installed base, come launch-time for the PS3. For the Blu-Ray player to be the PS3's version of the PS2's DVD player, casual technophiles need to be able to see the virtues of the Blu-Ray format. If there are few players, and few titles, this might not happen."
I won't be buying anymore Sony junk, period. I don't care if it is late or not.
Further, this will stick Sony with lame-duck product, which I can't imagine is a good thing.
On the contrary.
This is the company that thought it was acceptable to install rootkits on peoples' computers, as if the computers belonged to them, all in the name of preventing imagined losses that are their own faults for bad treatment of customers and for selling inferior products.
The faster they die the happier we should be.
i am a soviet space shuttle
Sony has a hitsory of making up non-standard proprietary formats. These
include the (a) memory stick, (b) the customized (non-standard) firewire port,
(c) the universal
operating system of the AIBO, (d) the minidisc and, of course, (e) betamax. No doubt, there are other I can't think of or don't know about.
In almost every case, they are either failures or (worse) sources of ongoing frustration.
I thought Blu-ray had promise, but not I realize it is another one of these monstrosities. Maybe it had better just die as quickly as possible to spare us being burdeneed with it for ages.
(like the memory stick -- an extra format we never needed).
pc games have been doing this but after you install a game off 3 cd's it takes up more than 3cd's worth of room because of compression.
Psssh... NOT IN ALL CASES. Unreal Tournament GOTY is exactly the same size on CD as it is on hard disk. The only thing that happens is file renaming and some registry editing, and you're done. Almost the same case with most id software games as well, up until Doom 3. Note I said ALMOST.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Agreed, but the worst part about the Blu-ray player on the PS3 is that it is slower than the DVD drive on the XB360.
Presently here, but not there.