Sony to Market PS3 As Blu-Ray Player

Originally Posted by Type A

No matter how many times I read something like this, it still shocks me. My first hdtv was a rpcrt 55", and I currently have 90 and 106" front projection displays, so thats my only experience with formal hdtv's, and I just dont have any experience with anything as small as you have. But I do own a 21" lcd computer monitor. If I set it at 1280x720 and playback a wmv 720p file, and then play a dvd with one of the best players on the market, Theater Trek, the dvd looks way lower in not only resolution and clarity, but in color accuracy and saturation, and its apparent even when viewed from 7-8 feet away! Dont mean to be insulting, at all, but are you positive you have everything set up correctly? HDDVD, literally, set a whole new bench-mark for my system (and I was a long time hdtv subscriber before i ever got a hddvd player), so Im shocked when someone says they dont see a diffence between a next gen format and dvd, regardless of the display size or type they might have.

Originally Posted by Steve44

That's a limited market anyways (EDIT: I say that but now that I read this over again, I was being short sited...this market is GROWING fast!).

Anyways, I was under the impression that I would benefit from a bluray player with my 32" LCD HDTV. Turns out I don't see a difference between the bluray and DVD. According to a bunch of people on this forum, high definition players really can only be seen with an HDTV that is more than 47-50+ inches.

Doesn't change my mind about which console to purchase but it would have been a REALLY good benefit.

Originally Posted by junehhan

Wow, I hope that this is the announcement that will finally their these exclusive BDP manufacturers to get off their Sony subsidized asses and start making HD-DVD players. Are they so blind that they can't see how HOT HD-DVD players are selling right now?

Originally Posted by kamspy

BD players would be selling HOT if they were $130 too.