Re: 75% of Surveyed Say They'll Go Blu by 2009

I'm with depression... there's no such proof of that yet.

Depression and Mie37, you guys are right. There is no "proof" as such. Either way, even if it never comes out on XBOX, I still wouldn't rebuy a PS3 for just that one game.

obviously your not a blu-ray hater kilgore...and you seem to enjoy video games...question. "why did you make the switch?"

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BTW...ahem. I got your model number mixed up with the review i read yesterday in THIS months issue of Home Theater.(sorry) But THIS months issue of HT does a very good comparison between the Denon 3800BDCI Panasonic BD50 Samsung P1500. Between these three, the DENON was the only one to score higher marks than the PS3 as far as audio /video.(cost $2000) Once again i am sorry for mixing your player up with the P1500. But still...I have been reading ALOT on the subject, and everybody still says PS3, (price/performance) is the player to beat.

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[Post edited by bladerunner1 on Aug 10, 2008 - CDT 7:39 PM]

kI dunno Kilgore... there are some pretty nifty games on the PS3.... God of War 3, Resistance 2, Little Big Planet, Killzone 2 ... whenever that will come out, I'm pretty sure there are more but I haven't beenpaying too much attention to the PS3 since I have little money.

Two reasons, actually. Originally I was an HD DVD supporter with an XBOX 360, for which I bought the HD DVD addon. Then, in November 2007, I figured that the format war wasn't going to end anytime soon, and standalone Blu-ray players weren't getting any cheaper, so I decided to get a 40GB PS3. Although I did buy it primarily for Blu-ray playback, I did buy a few games for it, namely Rachet and Clank, Uncharted (fun, fun game), Resistance (decent), and Motorstorm (decent, but the damn game cheats). I found however, that I was playing the XBOX 360 much more, so much that after Christmas, I hardly played with the PS3 at all, and used it just for Blu-ray.

Then of course, in January, HD DVD closed up shop. I had over 100 HD DVD's, and figured I couldn't depend on the XBOX 360 addon alone in the future, and thought I should look into getting another HD DVD player. I ended up getting an A3 for cheap and figured I could use the XBOX 360 as a backup.

Then, back in April, barely 5 months after purchasing it, the Blu-ray drive in my PS3 died. I sent it into Sony and got a refurbished replacement with a 90 day warranty (so much for one year). About this time, i saw lowered prices for the LG and Samsung combo drives. Seeing as I really wasn't playing the PS3 much, I decided to sell the PS3 to a friend and picked up a Samsung BD-UP5000 for $399 at Future Shop (even got them to throw in the FOrbidden Planet HD DVD for nothing!). I liked the fact that it had 7.1 analog outs (my Yamaha receiver doesn't have HDMI, so this is the only way for me to get lossless audio at the moment). I

love the fact that when I want to watch a movie, it doesn't matter if it's Blu, HD DVD or DVD...I just stick it in and it plays. I found that the Sammy played all these media better than any of my previous players. The Sammy vs PS3 was close, but I found the Sammy was sharper and had more vibrant color when calibrated. DVD upconversion was much better than all of them.

Overall, I am completely satisfied with my purchase. All that's left now is for Samsung to deliver DTS-MA through analog in the upcoming firmware update and I'm a happy camper. Profile 2.0 would be icing on the cake.

Edit: I have 71 Blu-rays now to go along with my 117 HD DVDs.

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[Post edited by Kilgore on Aug 10, 2008 - CDT 8:07 PM]

Mike, of those, the only ones that interest me are Little Big Planet and God of War 3...but they still aren't enough to make me want another PS3. Not slamming the PS3, it's a great machine, but for me, I have my gaming needs covered with a PC and the XBOX 360.

BTW, bladerunner, it's a trivial thing, but the PS3 not having IR control in addition to Bluetooth is completely stupid. STOOPID. it's nice to be back to controlling every device I own with one Harmony remote, and only having to pull out the XBOX controller when I want to play a game. The PS3 controllers (even the Dual Shoc 3) are completely rinky-dink when compared to the XBOX 360 controllers, and the trigger design on them is dumb, dumb, dumb.

Like I said, the PS3 IS a cool unit, but no IR? Stoopid. Controllers? Stoopid triggers and I feel like I'm gonna crush the damn things.

Kilgore, if MGS4 was to come to the XBOX 360, but was 2 disks, would you mind?

HA HA! I laugh at you all! My player rates #1 on Consumer Reports! Wha ha ha, wha ha ha.