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You know you're a videophile if... {Engadget HD}
Jul 7th 2009 4:08PM You know you're an elitest videoSnob if:
You found that entire list to be true, factual, and funny.
Slow news day I guess, but what more do you expect from HD.
But then what do you expect from a company controled by a company that was bought out by BDA.
Sony placing PS3 slim manufacturing orders for delivery in July? {Engadget}
Jun 30th 2009 2:53PM David-
He stated "Sony has managed to srink from 90nm process to 45nm process"
This is untrue.
And you are right about the hardware development, most is developed by contract. Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo do very little inhouse development on their systems, the boards, processors, and other cards are all developed and produced by other companies.
BTW Nintendo uses IBM CPUs, and mostlikely boards, and ATI GPUs.
Sony placing PS3 slim manufacturing orders for delivery in July? {Engadget}
Jun 30th 2009 2:33PM Mike
Microsoft has no reason to fear the PS3 at this point, the 360 is in a much better sales position than the PS3 and Sony has lost almost all of its exclusive developers. To compete Sony is going to have to drop the price of the PS3 down even more making it's recent profitability through game sales none existent again, and this is not even mentioning the quality of each generation of the PS3 has degraded since the first one came out. The FUD being spread about the PS3 is being done so by industry analysts who see no real saving factor for the unprofitable PS3 and the slumping profit margins being encountered by Sony over the past year. And don't go referencing the Joystq analysis showing the PS3 is going to over take the 360 because the only basis given in that is because of its popularity in Japan, which doesn't even make up 1/10 the world market.
Also the smaller cell processors you're referring to weren't even developed by Sony, they were developed by Toshiba's end of STI, Sony pretty much got out of the cell processor market Feb. 2008 when they used their portion of manufacturing and development to buy out Toshiba from the HD video market which was already won by Blu-ray. And those cell processors are all well and good if companies use them, but so far only a handful of devices use them, most prominently the PS3, and they cost 3x the amount to make as a comparable cell core processor (which is what the 360 uses). And the extra power exerted, and used by, those processors are hardly even being used because of the time and expenses used to develop for the things which are primarily needed to do graphics because Sony in their wisdom decided to use the processor for graphics instead of a dedicated GPU which is easier and cheaper to develop for.
Own a patent application for a rock-paper-scissors video game for just $90,000 {Joystiq}
Jun 29th 2009 3:41PM It sounds to me like this guy knows that and is just trying to commit fraud using eBay, and that's nothing new.
Blame World of Warcraft for StarCraft 2's tardiness {Joystiq}
Jun 29th 2009 3:11PM Want to know what to blame for StarCraft 2's delay? The same thing that is to blame for Diablo 3's, Blizzard's lack of a release time tables and developmental priorities.
Poll: So how do YOU think Blu-ray is doing? {Engadget HD}
Jun 27th 2009 5:04PM And LaserDisc was launched in the late 70's so its 30 years old BTW.
Poll: So how do YOU think Blu-ray is doing? {Engadget HD}
Jun 27th 2009 5:02PM You've got to be kidding... or stupid.
You know what held up LD? COST, and we aren't talking Blu-ray style cost here we are talking Maserati style cost here. The machines during production life NEVER dropped below the $700 mark, and Discs never dropped below $60. At the time Home Electronics high end started at around $600, in comparison to now hovering at around $1000. You want to know what the price of a low end Blu-ray player ($160) would be using the low end LaserDisc standards, over $1000. Would you spend that much on Blu-ray just to play the movies? Blu-ray didn't even start selling stand alone units until they hit the $600 price range and that was still considered a little pricey for most. The reason why Studios continued to support LD druing all that time was because it was widely popular in Japan and didn't cost that much more to produce for the US and European markets, even if it only had 3 million consumers. Blu-ray on the other hand is failing because of the fact that unlike LD, which was a major upgrade from VHS and BetaMax, it is not a major upgrade in comparison to the dominant format, the price is around that of DVD at launch but DVD at launch was a noticeable difference from VHS, LD had no chance because it was a rich toy for the most part and was bulky to boot. Try comparing it to valid technology, you can't because VHS and DVD both were far more stable at the 3 year mark in their life than Blu-ray, and don't forget the purchasing population has dramatically increased since 1997 and saying its made further penetration than DVD in the same period is like comparing Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz ticket sales to Titanic's, STUPID, the comparison cannot be made without proper adjustments to the market. If studios aren't seeing a profit and something better comes out with more potential the least profitably market gets dropped... In the case of VHS vs LaserDisc DVD came out and LD was axed. Do you even watch where the industry is going or do you just come on here looking at what new is being said to boost Blu-ray's confidence? The market is stagnant for Blu-ray and there are dozens of companies lining up to provide some source for HD streaming content. Which do you think is more likely to be adopted, a technology based on 40 year old research using new processes with very little adaptability or a technology which has proven to work based on 10 year old research which can be adapted according to need?
This survey engadget is doing is as stupid and inaccurate as the one they are trying to disprove, and its clear that people who are clearly afraid that there was no real winning format in the HD Disc war are clambering about like there's no tomorrow. I find it odd that Engadget has since hired new people to carry the banner of Blu-ray since their old banner carriers have realized that the battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray was completely pointless in the end.
Engadget's recession antidote: win one of 100 Microsoft Windows 7 pre-order discount codes! {Engadget}
Jun 25th 2009 3:29PM Win7 must be better than Vista...
Evidently it's still cool to hate on Blu-ray: Harris Poll spin {Engadget HD}
Jun 24th 2009 10:27AM I ment Blu-ray 2.0 (BD Live) not 3.0 which never has been released...
Evidently it's still cool to hate on Blu-ray: Harris Poll spin {Engadget HD}
Jun 24th 2009 10:24AM Andy, that was the point of my comment about the Walmart $119 special, if you buy a PoS player you might as well spend twice the amount on a decent player, because during the life of that decent player you may have to replace the Walmart one 3 or 4 times, and that one pretty much is a bare bones player, where as the BD60, which generally retails for about $240 outside of the internet, is a Blu-ray 3.0 player.
