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Gamers Don't Know Their Own Consoles

Posted by Zonk on from the you-paid-up-now-pay-attention dept.

deadmantyping writes "Ars Technica reports on a survey of 6,260 responses which indicates that only 40 percent of PS3 owners knew that their console included Bluray. Apparently a large portion of gamers aren't aware of the non-gaming capabilities of their systems. Ars speculates that this might help explain Nintendo's apparent dominance in the console market since their introduction of the Wii."

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  1. Re:I know that the ps3 plays blue-ray... by thebluick · · Score: 2, Informative

    - can the controller be used wirelessly to control the playing? +YES - does the ps3 have an IR receiver so I can program my existing remote to control it like a stand-alone blue-ray player? +NO-its bluetooth - how is the quality compared to a stand-alone player? +As good or better with constant firmware updates improving quality - does the ps3 have a digital out to feed to my receiver? (coax? optical?) +yes - the ps3 does NOT upscale dvd movies to 1080i/p +actually it does upconvert to 1080p it was in a firmware update a couple months ago (it also upconverts ps2 and ps1 games) - the ps3 supports 1080p/24 starting from firmware 1.9 +its always supported this, now it just forces it for sets that it was having problems with.

  2. Re:I know that the ps3 plays blue-ray... by benzapp · · Score: 5, Informative

    - can the controller be used wirelessly to control the playing?

    Yes

    - does the ps3 have an IR receiver so I can program my existing remote to control it like a stand-alone blue-ray player?

    No

    - does the ps3 support blue-ray profile 1.1 (with dual decoding)?

    This standard isn't required for months. It's trivial to include support in a future firmware release.

    - how is the quality compared to a stand-alone player?

    You know about a future standard but haven't read any reviews of the PS3, the most popular bluray player? The quality is superb, and is considered to have better quality than many standalone players.

    - does the ps3 have a digital out to feed to my receiver? (coax? optical?)

    Sheesh, reading the box would answer this question. Of course it has optical output. That is the only way to receive surround sound with a bluray player.

    - the ps3 does NOT upscale dvd movies to 1080i/p

    This is false. Support for upscaling DVDs, PS1 and PS2 games was added in the 1.8 system software release in May. The quality of the upscaling is superior to my Yamaha DVD player that came with my 5.1 setup.

    - the ps3 supports 1080p/24 starting from firmware 1.9

    The ps3 has always supported 1080p output. The 1.9 release was relatively minor, with the only major component being support for Chinese text.

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  3. Re:Of course not by ssewell · · Score: 2, Informative

    If blockbuster all of a sudden is half full of Blu-Ray disks, people will become very aware of the PS3's capabilities, just as they did with the PS2. Well... Blockbuster is about do just that.