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Why this is good for England in particular
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The good thing about this for those of us in England (and before you ask, I'm American) is that it means less waiting to play games we want in English. Typically it takes about 6 months for a game to get from Japan to the US, and then another 6 months for it to get to Europe. Final Fantasy X and Metal Gear Solid 3 are good examples of this.
The reason it takes another 6 months is because of the need for European releases to be much more Multilingual.
Also, as mentioned earlier, most TVs here (Englad) now support NTSC (Japan and US TV format)
Horray for us stuck on this bloody gamming poor rock!
Harrods have actually had this on display for a couple months, I walked past it when I was Christmas shopping. It was surprising to me that it was visible on the glass under regular lighting, but the picture didn't look far and away higher definition than a good LCD. All in all I (and other customers walking by) found it unimpressive with no one crowded around this, and tons of people around the hug LCDs. So it projects onto glass, big deal. Plus, think about what it would look like if you had the glass a couple feet from a wall, as most people do with their TVs... you're going to get a double image of sorts from the glass image and the wall image.
Just my perspective from as guy who walked by it a bit ago.
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Oh I'm so sorry [insert person's name], is water bad for your computer?
The good thing about this for those of us in England (and before you ask, I'm American) is that it means less waiting to play games we want in English. Typically it takes about 6 months for a game to get from Japan to the US, and then another 6 months for it to get to Europe. Final Fantasy X and Metal Gear Solid 3 are good examples of this. The reason it takes another 6 months is because of the need for European releases to be much more Multilingual. Also, as mentioned earlier, most TVs here (Englad) now support NTSC (Japan and US TV format) Horray for us stuck on this bloody gamming poor rock!
Harrods have actually had this on display for a couple months, I walked past it when I was Christmas shopping. It was surprising to me that it was visible on the glass under regular lighting, but the picture didn't look far and away higher definition than a good LCD. All in all I (and other customers walking by) found it unimpressive with no one crowded around this, and tons of people around the hug LCDs. So it projects onto glass, big deal. Plus, think about what it would look like if you had the glass a couple feet from a wall, as most people do with their TVs... you're going to get a double image of sorts from the glass image and the wall image. Just my perspective from as guy who walked by it a bit ago.