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Playstation 3 Soon Into Production
Roy van Rijn writes "According to Forbes, the Commercial Times reported that Taiwanese ASUSTeK Computer Inc. will be delivering PlayStation 3 consoles to Sony starting this month. The news comes amid concerns that Sony may not have enough Cell and RSX chips to meet production goals of 2 million units for launch. The report also states that, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, also a Taiwanese company, will soon begin making the PlayStation 3 consoles for Sony too. Total monthly shipments from manufacturers are expected to be 200,000 units per month."
Oh, sorry, I forgot where I was. Nintendo can do no wrong. Everything Nintendo says is true. Ignorance is strength.
http://www.projectorcentral.com/blu-ray_2.htms s/14950018.htm
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/busine
Basically Blu Ray is only single layer, loaded with advertisement (less room for movie content) and using the MPEG2 codec while HD-DVD is dual layer and using the VC-1 codec. walk into your local Best Buy and you should see some displays side by side, the differences are astounding... particularly because we waited longer for Blu Ray, it costs more and HD-DVD is still better quality.
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Maybe you should get out more often... head over to your local Best Buy and see the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD setups side by side... I shouldn't need to post links to articles when you can walk to the store and form your own opinions with everything laid out in front of you to touch and feel on your own.
It's a fact that every Blu Ray movie released so far is on a single layer disc, and that the currently available players are only able to read single layer discs. It's a fact that every Blue Ray movie released so far is using the MPEG2 format. Sure the players can support VC-1 but it doesn't actually help the quality if they're NOT USING IT. As for price. the HD-DVD entry point is $500. The PS3's entry point is $500, but if you want HDMI you'll be paying $600.. Stand alone Blu Ray players are more expensive then that. By christmas the HD-DVD price point is expected to drop. you'd be foolish to thing the PS3's price will drop by the end of the year.
I'd also like to see your reasoning as to how most of the members in one of the largest AV forums on the internet were "fueled by Microsoft money".
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I've noticed that there are several problems with the PS3's currently being sold in Japan. The problems are centered around the Blu-Ray DVD-ROM which have had serious problems with damaging or destroying the inserted disk. One of my friends even read that there have been reports of the Blu-Ray laser burning the DVD's. If the PS3 is going to have a chance in the U.S., then Sony needs to fix the problems with Blu-Ray ASAP. They aren't going to have a problem with supply, but Sony is the king of launch shortages and started this trend with the launch of the PS2, and its been magnified by the launch of the X-Box and X-Box 360. Sony's plan to have plenty of units for the 2006 November U.S. launch seems a little far-fetched but it would boost their U.S. sales with the flop that the 360 experiened during its first six months of avaliability or lack there of. Now stores can't even give them away. The Wal-Mart I work at currently has 52 of the Premium X-Box 360's on shelf and we only sell 2 a week and recieve 10 every week to prevent shortages. If Sony manages to have plenty of units at launch, fixes the issues with Blu-Ray, and sets the price under $500 for their "Premium" units, then I could see it have success in the U.S., but only time will tell.