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It is unclear but before the Sony fanbots pile on- the PS3 doesn't have a 1.3 HDMI port either. It's actually a 1.2A that Sony says will be "just as good" sometime in the future (maybe) with a firmware update. I mean, it's not like Sony hasn't downgraded their announced specs before (e.g. dual hdmi, dual ethernet ports, rumble, FULL backwards compatability, 1080P on games more graphically impressive than Sodoku...).
Huh? It's HDMI 1.3 and even HDMI Licensing, LLC states PS3 is the first product to feature HDMI 1.3. Stop stupid FUD.
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 26, 2006 -- HDMI Licensing, LLC, the agent responsible for licensing the High-Definition Multimedia Interface(TM) (HDMI(TM)) specification, next week will kick off a series of briefings and technology demonstrations for media in Asia, the United States and Europe, previewing key technologies enabled by HDMI 1.3.
The demonstrations will preview high-definition (HD) video and audio technology that will begin hitting the consumer market in November and continue rolling out in 2007. According to announcements by manufacturers, among the first consumer products with HDMI 1.3 features to reach the market will be the PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3) from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. in November, the HD-XA2 HD DVD player from Toshiba America Consumer Products, LLC in December, and the EMP-TW1000, a 3LCD 1080p projector from Epson in December.
"Reports from manufacturers indicate that most Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD players, and a substantial proportion of conventional DVD players, will include HDMI 1.3 capabilities in 2007," said Leslie Chard, president of HDMI Licensing, LLC. "During the first half of 2007 we expect to see HDTVs with HDMI 1.3 functionality, allowing them to display Deep Color(TM)TM content. We also expect the introduction during 2007 of HDMI 1.3 technology for PCs, audio-visual receivers and a range of other source and display devices."
In June 2006, the HDMI Founders announced the HDMI 1.3 specification, the most significant upgrade yet in the interface that has become the de facto standard interface for high-definition devices. HDMI 1.3 more than doubles HDMI's bandwidth and adds support for Deep Color(TM) technology, a broader color space, new digital audio formats, automatic audio/video synching capability ("lip sync"), and an optional smaller connector for use with portable devices such as digital still cameras and camcorders.
HDMI specifications include both mandatory and optional components. As a result, HDMI Licensing encourages consumers to look for the functionality they want the device to support (Deep Color(TM), specific audio formats, etc.), referring to the manufacturer's product information.
The HDMI 1.3 World Tour will offer the first glimpse of key HDMI 1.3 technologies, including Deep Color(TM) and support for new lossless audio formats.
HD DVD is inferior in terms of both studio support and data storage so your prospect for cheap media for data storage looks unlikely. Anyway the winning format will become cheaper by mass production in the end.
BD+ won't help. All it does is perform some checks that are orders of magnitude easier to crack than the AACS encryption, and then allow Fox to brick your player if they don't like what they see.
Apparently you have no idea for what BD+ is let alone what AACS is.
As long as they stick to DVD there's no way to discourage Chinese pirates, DVD-R are readily available in China and they can import Japanese Xbox 360 for cheaper than the US version. Paying for XBL and playing online mean jack for them.
This is an excellent point. PS3 developers/publishers are either rolling their own or using services like XFire or Gamespy to get their games online. That could (based on the history of the PS2) mean multiple logins to access multiple games.
Then they can contract other more capable entities. Unlike NVIDIA and ATI in the oligopolistic GPU market, there are others who can implement these services, it's not rocket science after all.
Though it's clear that this project is illegal as long as they use XBox due to DMCA, why not use a cheap PC instead? Maybe 1 Xbox may be cheaper than 1 PC, but you can use the processing power of 1 PC for doing multiple services at the same time. Also hacking Xbox is just a needless addition to personal costs.
Though the theoretical performance of this computer is higher than that of BlueGene and may have higher realworld performance too, you can't compare this supercomputer with BlueGene and other TOP500 supercomputers since it can't run LINPACK. It's just too specialized for its use.
The PS3 is expensive, but it's the only player in it's domain in Japan -- the Xbox 360 has, somehow, been less successful than the original Xbox over there.
Xbox 360 is less successful than Xbox 1 in the US too. These are the data released by the most reliable market research company, NPD.
You should keep it in mind that gaming console is not like an office productibity suite or an operating system for business machines. It's entertainment business. If money is the only way to the success in entertainment business Bill Gates would have become a rock star by now.
Nintendo doesn't make Nintendo's for North America or Europe, they do it for Japan, an excessive fad/trend based society that spazzes out over anything novel and new by throwing heaping wads of money at it. The Japanese are quick adopters of new ideas (the good, the bad, and the absolute ridiculous), and Nintendo can pretty much bank roll the entire Revolution R&D costs within the first week of selling it in Japan.
Well in fact the Japanese rejected all of Nintendo's wacky creations except for the DS.
Nintendo is a Japanese company that caters to the Japanese market, and they are largely unapologetic for it. If Japanese trends and fads like Sudoku or Pokemon make its way overseas, its just gravy, and easy way to earn more profit when the rest of the world follows Japan's lead in entertainment and novelty acts.
Sudoku might be born in Japan but it's definitely not a fad in Japan, I'd never heard of it in Japanese media until I read the news about its fad in the UK or somewhere else.
Nintendo doesn't make Nintendo's for North America or Europe, they do it for Japan, an excessive fad/trend based society that spazzes out over anything novel and new by throwing heaping wads of money at it. The Japanese are quick adopters of new ideas (the good, the bad, and the absolute ridiculous), and Nintendo can pretty much bank roll the entire Revolution R&D costs within the first week of selling it in Japan.
Well in fact the Japanese rejected all of those Nintendo's wacky creations except for the DS.
Nintendo is a Japanese company that caters to the Japanese market, and they are largely unapologetic for it. If Japanese trends and fads like Sudoku or Pokemon make its way overseas, its just gravy, and easy way to earn more profit when the rest of the world follows Japan's lead in entertainment and novelty acts.
Sudoku might be born in Japan but it's definitely not a fad in Japan, I'd never heard of it until I saw it on a English news about it on the net.
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It is unclear but before the Sony fanbots pile on- the PS3 doesn't have a 1.3 HDMI port either. It's actually a 1.2A that Sony says will be "just as good" sometime in the future (maybe) with a firmware update. I mean, it's not like Sony hasn't downgraded their announced specs before (e.g. dual hdmi, dual ethernet ports, rumble, FULL backwards compatability, 1080P on games more graphically impressive than Sodoku...).
Huh? It's HDMI 1.3 and even HDMI Licensing, LLC states PS3 is the first product to feature HDMI 1.3. Stop stupid FUD.
http://www.hdmi.org/press/pr/pr_20061026.asp
HDMI LICENSING LAUNCHES HDMI 1.3 WORLD TOUR, AS FIRST PRODUCTS WITH HDMI 1.3 FEATURES HIT THE MARKET
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 26, 2006 -- HDMI Licensing, LLC, the agent responsible for licensing the High-Definition Multimedia Interface(TM) (HDMI(TM)) specification, next week will kick off a series of briefings and technology demonstrations for media in Asia, the United States and Europe, previewing key technologies enabled by HDMI 1.3.
The demonstrations will preview high-definition (HD) video and audio technology that will begin hitting the consumer market in November and continue rolling out in 2007. According to announcements by manufacturers, among the first consumer products with HDMI 1.3 features to reach the market will be the PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3) from Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. in November, the HD-XA2 HD DVD player from Toshiba America Consumer Products, LLC in December, and the EMP-TW1000, a 3LCD 1080p projector from Epson in December.
"Reports from manufacturers indicate that most Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD players, and a substantial proportion of conventional DVD players, will include HDMI 1.3 capabilities in 2007," said Leslie Chard, president of HDMI Licensing, LLC. "During the first half of 2007 we expect to see HDTVs with HDMI 1.3 functionality, allowing them to display Deep Color(TM)TM content. We also expect the introduction during 2007 of HDMI 1.3 technology for PCs, audio-visual receivers and a range of other source and display devices."
In June 2006, the HDMI Founders announced the HDMI 1.3 specification, the most significant upgrade yet in the interface that has become the de facto standard interface for high-definition devices. HDMI 1.3 more than doubles HDMI's bandwidth and adds support for Deep Color(TM) technology, a broader color space, new digital audio formats, automatic audio/video synching capability ("lip sync"), and an optional smaller connector for use with portable devices such as digital still cameras and camcorders.
HDMI specifications include both mandatory and optional components. As a result, HDMI Licensing encourages consumers to look for the functionality they want the device to support (Deep Color(TM), specific audio formats, etc.), referring to the manufacturer's product information.
The HDMI 1.3 World Tour will offer the first glimpse of key HDMI 1.3 technologies, including Deep Color(TM) and support for new lossless audio formats.
if you count in Blu-ray discs shipped in the form of PS3 games.
HD DVD is inferior in terms of both studio support and data storage so your prospect for cheap media for data storage looks unlikely. Anyway the winning format will become cheaper by mass production in the end.
because it's fugly. Just like Nokia N-gage.
Those Euro taxes are now defunct.
Why buy this Apple set-top box when another set-top box called PS3 can happily browse YouTube on its web browser?
BD+ won't help. All it does is perform some checks that are orders of magnitude easier to crack than the AACS encryption, and then allow Fox to brick your player if they don't like what they see.
Apparently you have no idea for what BD+ is let alone what AACS is.
This kind of situation is what they had in mind when they added BD+ in the Blu-ray spec. OTOH, the HD DVD is out of luck.
Welcome to the /., you are new to this place...
"China" includes Hong Kong. (And some people will complain but let's include Taiwan there.) See?
As long as they stick to DVD there's no way to discourage Chinese pirates, DVD-R are readily available in China and they can import Japanese Xbox 360 for cheaper than the US version. Paying for XBL and playing online mean jack for them.
This is an excellent point. PS3 developers/publishers are either rolling their own or using services like XFire or Gamespy to get their games online. That could (based on the history of the PS2) mean multiple logins to access multiple games.
RTFA, it's single sign-on. It's in the page one.
Then they can contract other more capable entities. Unlike NVIDIA and ATI in the oligopolistic GPU market, there are others who can implement these services, it's not rocket science after all.
Yeah, they hate Microsoft and all things American. Believe me, all Japanese people are running Linux on their PC and browsing Slashdot 48 times a day.
Though it's clear that this project is illegal as long as they use XBox due to DMCA, why not use a cheap PC instead? Maybe 1 Xbox may be cheaper than 1 PC, but you can use the processing power of 1 PC for doing multiple services at the same time. Also hacking Xbox is just a needless addition to personal costs.
Though the theoretical performance of this computer is higher than that of BlueGene and may have higher realworld performance too, you can't compare this supercomputer with BlueGene and other TOP500 supercomputers since it can't run LINPACK. It's just too specialized for its use.
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SuperFX in Starfox was not a standard piece of the console hardware every developer could count on hence not eligible.
The PS3 is expensive, but it's the only player in it's domain in Japan -- the Xbox 360 has, somehow, been less successful than the original Xbox over there.
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Xbox 360 is less successful than Xbox 1 in the US too. These are the data released by the most reliable market research company, NPD.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1013
Xbox: Nov 2001 - Apr 2002
Xbox 360: Nov 2005 - Apr 2006
Hardware Sales
Xbox 1: 1,873,857 - Xbox 360: 1,504,684
Software Sales
Xbox 1: 8,165,786 - Xbox 360: 6,700,125
That works only when specs are comparable. The power difference between PS3 and Wii reachs an order of magnitude.
You should keep it in mind that gaming console is not like an office productibity suite or an operating system for business machines. It's entertainment business. If money is the only way to the success in entertainment business Bill Gates would have become a rock star by now.
Nintendo doesn't make Nintendo's for North America or Europe, they do it for Japan, an excessive fad/trend based society that spazzes out over anything novel and new by throwing heaping wads of money at it. The Japanese are quick adopters of new ideas (the good, the bad, and the absolute ridiculous), and Nintendo can pretty much bank roll the entire Revolution R&D costs within the first week of selling it in Japan.
Well in fact the Japanese rejected all of Nintendo's wacky creations except for the DS.
Nintendo is a Japanese company that caters to the Japanese market, and they are largely unapologetic for it. If Japanese trends and fads like Sudoku or Pokemon make its way overseas, its just gravy, and easy way to earn more profit when the rest of the world follows Japan's lead in entertainment and novelty acts.
Sudoku might be born in Japan but it's definitely not a fad in Japan, I'd never heard of it in Japanese media until I read the news about its fad in the UK or somewhere else.
Nintendo doesn't make Nintendo's for North America or Europe, they do it for Japan, an excessive fad/trend based society that spazzes out over anything novel and new by throwing heaping wads of money at it. The Japanese are quick adopters of new ideas (the good, the bad, and the absolute ridiculous), and Nintendo can pretty much bank roll the entire Revolution R&D costs within the first week of selling it in Japan.
Well in fact the Japanese rejected all of those Nintendo's wacky creations except for the DS.
Nintendo is a Japanese company that caters to the Japanese market, and they are largely unapologetic for it. If Japanese trends and fads like Sudoku or Pokemon make its way overseas, its just gravy, and easy way to earn more profit when the rest of the world follows Japan's lead in entertainment and novelty acts.
Sudoku might be born in Japan but it's definitely not a fad in Japan, I'd never heard of it until I saw it on a English news about it on the net.
Dreamcast is one of the easiest game consoles for programmers.