Over-priced? How so Lie Teller, when to have an equivalent station with a Xbox it actually costs you more (and with a mere dead HD DVD add on vs a built in Blu Ray player)? Keep on the BS, Fud Teller, we all love to have a good laugh at your expense ;)
The only people giving anyone a great big laugh are the game console kiddies who have decided to pretend that their fav toy is all about movies and not games (which are still laughably thin on the ground).
HD DVD has sadly left the field but my stand-alone player & movie collection have cost me (still) far less than any equivelent Blu-ray option (which, given their profile mess & if you could for a moment be honest about it, still does not yet even exist).
As for movies, all but the most determined have said a firm no to having a kiddies game console as their main movie player.
There's no rush and absolutely no need for Blu-ray & all the BS it brings.
Why do you guys feed into Truthteller's ridiculous posts? The simple fact is that everything he predicted over the last year and a half about this format war did not happen for hd-dvd, so why waste your time with people that cannot accept that they were totally wrong all along?
"Truth Teller" your angry and bitter dismissals of the PS3 simply don't wash. The PS3 is an excellent console and an excellent blu ray player. I thin its great to have one device which is so versatile. Maybe you love your HD DVD player to much to acknowledge the PS3 for the quality kit it is but that's your problem not anyone elses. Maybe its time to grow up?
I have no problem with people enjoying their PS3s, why would I it's not exactly any of my business and it's a relatively free world here in the west.
I do have a problem with fanboy cretins who act like it is perfection itself and who insist on trying to evangelise to the rest of us who are not interested in a game console as our movie player. Even more laughable are those who imagine that just cos I have no interest in the PS3 that I have for the XBox 360. Too funny.
.....and as far as your 'wrong' comment goes? Couple of things.
1) just before CES every senior guy on the HD DVD side went off on their planes 'knowing' Warner had signed for HD DVD. That was the inside info - and the Ken Graffeo interview proved it. 2) It was so close to going the other way.
You just happened to be in 'love' with the CE corp that won out in the end. You did nothing. You could so easily have bet wrong (and came within a whisker of doing so).
3) It is far from decided yet whether Blu-ray has or has not also lost with HD DVD.
The win in the little squabble with HD DVD has not guaranteed Blu-ray will go on to take over from SD DVD at all.
The high def market is heavily fractured as it is (and this can only get ever more so) and there is no indication whatsoever that the general public have any appetite for paying the laughable prices the Blu-ray side expect to charge for their sub-spec clunky cr@p.
I've seen it said umteen times (just as it was with HD DVD) 'wake me up when the (full spec = profile 2.0) players are $100.
How many years do you expect that to take, hmmmmmm?
By then it will be too late. Too little too late.
Blu-ray = PS3 proprietary niche format and very very little else besides.
Get over it. The Blu-ray win was the worst thing possible for the uptake of HDM on disc.
You too bought into a format going nowhere (it's just taking a little longer for you lot to realise it).
I have ZERO games for my PS3, in fact, the game controller is out of power because it sits in the cabinet unused. The PS3 is our media PC to play movies and stream family photos and videos from my Vista machine.
No doubt you'll say I am a minority but since you don't own a PS3, then your opinion means very little....
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jove @ Mar 20th 2008 5:46AM
oh hell yeah! man i can honestly say i want to see what truth teller's gonna say now about the kiddie console! awesome!
Truth Teller @ Mar 20th 2008 8:34AM
You make sure you enjoy your over-priced kiddies game console (with few decent games) now.
Just remember to really grit your teeth hard and pretend you love the expensive DRM-infested mess.
1stGreg @ Mar 20th 2008 9:35AM
Over-priced?
How so Lie Teller, when to have an equivalent station with a Xbox it actually costs you more
(and with a mere dead HD DVD add on vs a built in Blu Ray player)?
Keep on the BS, Fud Teller, we all love to have a good laugh at your expense ;)
Truth Teller @ Mar 20th 2008 10:08AM
The only people giving anyone a great big laugh are the game console kiddies who have decided to pretend that their fav toy is all about movies and not games (which are still laughably thin on the ground).
HD DVD has sadly left the field but my stand-alone player & movie collection have cost me (still) far less than any equivelent Blu-ray option (which, given their profile mess & if you could for a moment be honest about it, still does not yet even exist).
As for movies, all but the most determined have said a firm no to having a kiddies game console as their main movie player.
There's no rush and absolutely no need for Blu-ray & all the BS it brings.
Fail.
mntwister @ Mar 20th 2008 10:45AM
Why do you guys feed into Truthteller's ridiculous posts? The simple fact is that everything he predicted over the last year and a half about this format war did not happen for hd-dvd, so why waste your time with people that cannot accept that they were totally wrong all along?
Mark @ Mar 20th 2008 11:09AM
"Truth Teller" your angry and bitter dismissals of the PS3 simply don't wash. The PS3 is an excellent console and an excellent blu ray player. I thin its great to have one device which is so versatile. Maybe you love your HD DVD player to much to acknowledge the PS3 for the quality kit it is but that's your problem not anyone elses. Maybe its time to grow up?
Truth Teller @ Mar 20th 2008 11:19AM
mntwister
I have no problem with people enjoying their PS3s, why would I it's not exactly any of my business and it's a relatively free world here in the west.
I do have a problem with fanboy cretins who act like it is perfection itself and who insist on trying to evangelise to the rest of us who are not interested in a game console as our movie player.
Even more laughable are those who imagine that just cos I have no interest in the PS3 that I have for the XBox 360.
Too funny.
.....and as far as your 'wrong' comment goes?
Couple of things.
1) just before CES every senior guy on the HD DVD side went off on their planes 'knowing' Warner had signed for HD DVD. That was the inside info - and the Ken Graffeo interview proved it.
2) It was so close to going the other way.
You just happened to be in 'love' with the CE corp that won out in the end.
You did nothing.
You could so easily have bet wrong (and came within a whisker of doing so).
3) It is far from decided yet whether Blu-ray has or has not also lost with HD DVD.
The win in the little squabble with HD DVD has not guaranteed Blu-ray will go on to take over from SD DVD at all.
The high def market is heavily fractured as it is (and this can only get ever more so) and there is no indication whatsoever that the general public have any appetite for paying the laughable prices the Blu-ray side expect to charge for their sub-spec clunky cr@p.
I've seen it said umteen times (just as it was with HD DVD) 'wake me up when the (full spec = profile 2.0) players are $100.
How many years do you expect that to take, hmmmmmm?
By then it will be too late. Too little too late.
Blu-ray = PS3 proprietary niche format and very very little else besides.
Get over it.
The Blu-ray win was the worst thing possible for the uptake of HDM on disc.
You too bought into a format going nowhere
(it's just taking a little longer for you lot to realise it).
JimC @ Mar 20th 2008 12:40PM
Truth Teller,
I have ZERO games for my PS3, in fact, the game controller is out of power because it sits in the cabinet unused. The PS3 is our media PC to play movies and stream family photos and videos from my Vista machine.
No doubt you'll say I am a minority but since you don't own a PS3, then your opinion means very little....
tifosiotaku @ Mar 20th 2008 12:54PM
Dude, Give. It. Up. Already.
DrXym @ Mar 20th 2008 4:30PM
I see Truth Teller is cranking out stupid immature comments like usual.