Well you can count me in the camp of people that bought the PS3 for Blu Ray. Why would I buy a standalone player? I assume the little survey I filled out when I registered my PS3 will reflect that. I'll use the video games system I'm sure but the first thing I did was rent a blu ray movie
PS I bought it at EB Games when I traded in my Gamecube and some games for $360 CDN, so even the cheapest HDDVD players couldn't compete (in Canada that is).
Hey buddy, keep using your PS3 for both, and see how fast the drive burns out. You will be lucky to get 1 year out of the Blu-Ray drive on the PS3, if you use it for heavy gaming and heavy movie watching. It just puts too much stress on the drive.
Meanwhile, Microsoft was genius in making HD-DVD an add on. This means 1 drive for movies and 1 drive for games. This translates into the 360 drives lasting twice as long.
Anyway, Blu-Ray is just about over now that Walmart is backing HD-DVD. During the Christmas season this year, they will stop carrying Blu-Ray players (not counting the PS3) and Blu-Ray movies. They will only sell HD-DVD players and HD-DVD movies. The HD-DVD player at Walmart will sell for less than $200. This means it will be at least $400 less than the closest Blu-Ray player (the PS3) at $600.
This, coupled with the fact that Walmart sell 40% of all the DVD players in the country signifies the end of Blu-Ray. It will only exist in the failing, dust collecting, PS3's.
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Well you can count me in the camp of people that bought the PS3 for Blu Ray. Why would I buy a standalone player? I assume the little survey I filled out when I registered my PS3 will reflect that. I'll use the video games system I'm sure but the first thing I did was rent a blu ray movie
PS I bought it at EB Games when I traded in my Gamecube and some games for $360 CDN, so even the cheapest HDDVD players couldn't compete (in Canada that is).
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Hey buddy, keep using your PS3 for both, and see how fast the drive burns out. You will be lucky to get 1 year out of the Blu-Ray drive on the PS3, if you use it for heavy gaming and heavy movie watching. It just puts too much stress on the drive.
Meanwhile, Microsoft was genius in making HD-DVD an add on. This means 1 drive for movies and 1 drive for games. This translates into the 360 drives lasting twice as long.
Anyway, Blu-Ray is just about over now that Walmart is backing HD-DVD. During the Christmas season this year, they will stop carrying Blu-Ray players (not counting the PS3) and Blu-Ray movies. They will only sell HD-DVD players and HD-DVD movies.
The HD-DVD player at Walmart will sell for less than $200. This means it will be at least $400 less than the closest Blu-Ray player (the PS3) at $600.
This, coupled with the fact that Walmart sell 40% of all the DVD players in the country signifies the end of Blu-Ray. It will only exist in the failing, dust collecting, PS3's.
You won't buy a stand alone player? You basically did.
Or are you going to tell me you still play Resistance 6 months later? Or do you play the one and only release since launch, Motorstorm.