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Joyswag: PlayStation 3 (40GB) {Joystiq}
Jun 9th 2008 10:03PM Best Buy, occasionally Gamestop, and once in a while a system of prayer.
Hands-on with the Motorola Tuning Adapter MTR700 {Engadget HD}
May 18th 2008 10:16PM I thought it was just me, Stevey...Not sure your reasons, but I'm on my fourth Tivo HD replacement (hard drives locking up, HDMI port going bad, etc.)....I've owned the thing for just over five months, and I've had FOUR replacements. I currently have three Tivos (2x Series 2 and this piece of junk), and I'm cancelling them all. Tivo is being SO nice about it (sarcasm on), letting me out of my 3-year agreement, and offering me HALF of the price of the HD unit as a buy-back, despite promising when the last one failed to buy it back 100% if this new one failed..which it just did. If they'd just processed the buy-back and clean break, I would have put it down to a bad experience...but now I feel like I need to let people know that A) the Tivo HD is flaky as all-get-out, and B) Tivo's world-renowned customer service seems to be falling off as they struggle to turn profit.
TiVo brings back $399 Lifetime Service plan {Engadget HD}
May 15th 2008 9:59PM I currently own two Series 2 Tivos, and a Tivo HD...as a result of the Tivo HD, I'm cancelling service on all three. I'm on my fourth replacement unit (bad drives, video card failure, etc.) and now it's stuttering...it seems like they've really dropped the ball on their HD units, which is further aggravated by the Cablecard nonsense - - whenever the HD goes out, I lose cable TV until it's replaced (all but the first 100 channels).
They had a chance to crush the competition with great service and hardware, but I'm now learning to live with the less schnazzy, but so far FAR more reliable cable-provided unit - rotten UI and less features, but it seems to actually work reliably - which is really Job 1 for a recorder.
GTA IV Poll results: Achievements, DLC put 360 ahead {Joystiq}
Apr 16th 2008 11:11AM For some reason (probably my own lack of skill) I only see reply on certain messages, so my apologies for my breaks with netiquette.
Just a quick one: I believe the PS3 controllers DO turn off when you use their PS button to turn off the system - yes, I think that they SHOULD turn off with either method, but I always turn off the system via controller (since it's there in my hand) and so I don't have the problem
GTA IV Poll results: Achievements, DLC put 360 ahead {Joystiq}
Apr 15th 2008 4:03PM okay - breaking my own promise and posting again since you asked an honest question.
To my knowledge, you are right about the PSTWO emotion engine, but ALL models of the PS3 (in all press releases I've read) are compatible with the PSONE - pop them in and go. Now I too am willing to admit that I might be wrong about certain SKUs, but Sony's site lists NO PS2 but YES PS1 for the 40gigger.
And I DO feel like calling someone full of it is resorting to insults..but I'm more focusing when I say insult on the fact that about the first post you ever threw out there in response to mine called me a 'doofus' - this to me sounded like an insult, but maybe definitions are hazy on the web these days.
And I'll also concede you may be right about Blockbuster RENTALS, but you originally said 'rent or BUY' - that's the thing that threw me, since I've had no problem at all finding BR discs for purchase...and once I get them I can watch them that day, or months later, which you can't do with downloads.
If you really do like the rental model, and if you don't care that the downloads don't have any extras and can have degraded quality (not talking resolution but compression), then that model does work for you. I on the other hand don't want to plan out my viewing for the week...if I on a whim want to watch a flick, I don't have to wait for it to show up.
GTA IV Poll results: Achievements, DLC put 360 ahead {Joystiq}
Apr 15th 2008 1:08PM Synner, again with the insults.
Okay, I will spell it out. As far as I know, ALL PS3 models are b/c with PS1 games.
Please link the site where Sony says that the 40Gig model will not play any PS1 games.
And when I mentioned 'no HD movie' playback, I was giving an example of what someone COULD play...your goofy downloadable example is exactly as weak as the PS1 b/c argument. Let me restate then, and you can continue to refute:
The 360 has no HD movie playback unless you count downloadable movies that take forever to load, and which have draconian DRM...or maybe 360 has no HD movie playback that you can watch for more than one 24 hour period.
More ridiculous arguing from you re:wifi...so now every feature that YOU don't personally use is something that can't be counted as advantage by ANYONE?
Okay...I don't like achievements...therefore they have no value to anyone - MS should have to refund my share of any development costs for achievements.
Wow...I didn't realize that the 360 included HDMI cables in every SKU...oh wait...they don't..they include in models for which you pay a PRICE PREMIUM.
Batteries...wow...now you're claiming as a disadvantage of the PS3 the POSSIBILITY that the batteries MIGHT cost a lot....nice...I now claim as a disadvantage of the 360 that it might catch fire or strangle all my cats someday maybe in a year or so perhaps possibly...
I also love how all these price comparison arguments always have HDMI cables and optical cables costing whatever it will take to make 360 cost less.
Ok...my last comment here since you and I aren't ever going to agree, and you're just going to keep degenerating into personal attacks and profanity, but here goes...back to the HD movie thing...
If you consider the CURRENT state of HD film downloads to be preferable to physical media, particularly in terms of ease of use, viewing and REviewing, download times, and cost, then more power to you, I guess. And of course I love how you again play loose with facts...so you can't find BRs in stock anywhere?
But I get it...for you anything is better than leaving your house...I should have guessed at that from the first time you started hurling insults into a web forum.
GTA IV Poll results: Achievements, DLC put 360 ahead {Joystiq}
Apr 15th 2008 8:02AM Synner,
Thanks for degenerating into insults...
"Um, the $400 PS3 has 0 BC titles doofus."
Little tip, READ the entire post of a person before insulting them, and get your facts straight.
Actually, let me put it this way...since you said 0, and became insulting, can I assume that if I can name just ONE older (pre-PS3) title that will play on my 40Gig PS3, you will admit that you were wrong, and will promise not to degrade a discussion with insults ever again? (not expecting a reasonable response from you here, but let's give it a shot).
GTA IV Poll results: Achievements, DLC put 360 ahead {Joystiq}
Apr 14th 2008 2:48PM tuna,
I guess we can agree to disagree...I should however refer you to the multi-multipage thread on the XBox forums filled with people asking for titles that either are not BC, or are BC but filled with bugs/glitches.
There are lots of ways to spin this. How many TOTAL BC titles are there for the 360, and how many for the newest PS3? Oh, and when you calculate it that way, you have to include original PS games.
The biggest problem I guess I had with the comment, in addition to the BC claim, was the word 'gimped', since I guess you could say that about ANY console.
The 360 does not have HD movie playback (out of the box): gimped. The 360 doesn't have wireless ootb: gimped...etc. etc.
Each is gimped in its own way, but to assert that at $400 the PS3 is a poor value but at $350 the 360 is seems a bit of a stretch.
And of course, all four of my 360s were gimped in the most literal take on the word...they were unable to move for a long period of time, and had to be carried, in little white 'coffins' off to the refurb center.
GTA IV Poll results: Achievements, DLC put 360 ahead {Joystiq}
Apr 14th 2008 2:28PM Console reliability absolutely should be a factor.
Also, just noticed that one person spoke out against the PS3, calling it a $400 console that was 'gimped' and listed as one reason the lack of backwards compatibility....As an ex-360 owner with over 200 original XBox titles, I just have to laugh at your implication that the 360 has backwards compatibility, since to play a good number of my original Xbox titles I had to use my old Xboxes.
You can hate the PS3 as much as you want, but calling out backwards compatibility on the 360 is not really a place you want to go..particularly since they appear to be bailing on it, having failed to finish the job....Mechassault would have been nice.
GTA IV Poll results: Achievements, DLC put 360 ahead {Joystiq}
Apr 14th 2008 1:04PM I'll stick with the PS3 version, because while I used to have multiple 360s, after the sixth RROD I'm now all PS...having owned both systems, and having been a fanatic 360 fanboy until MS proved they couldn't build a system that would last, I can say that the deciding factor for me isn't rumble, DLC, or achievements, but the fact that I can be reasonably sure that the PS3 won't go *POOF*, give me the red rings, green checkerboards, E68s, or any other failures in the middle of my GTA fun - something I can't say about the 360. And for those saying that people who think Achievements don't add much just have never played on the 360 - well, I have, and they don't add much. It's a matter of personal taste, but I would suggest that those so obsessed with Achievements take the $50 or so bucks per year they spend on XBL and spend it on Enzyte.
